Featured Articles from Access Academics and Research

Academic Program Capacity Building

• What should an academic program consider before planning any expansion?

Clinical Education

• Students With Disabilities in Classroom and Clinic: Business as Usual
• How does one urban program manage clinical education?
• What are the greatest challenges facing clinical educators in audiology and speech-language pathology today? How are ASHA and others addressing the challenges?

Data and Statistics

• Where can I go to find data related to the professions? What data collecting and reporting tools does ASHA have at its disposal?

Distance Education

• What information is available to faculty and students on distance education and online learning?

Evidence-Based Practice

• What system of levels of evidence should be used in communication sciences and disorders?
• What are the basic steps involved in evidence-based practice?
• How is evidence-based practice applied in communication sciences and disorders?

Faculty Careers

• Faculty and Staff Development: Establishing a Culture of Leadership
• Faculty careers and work lives: Are we balanced?
• What is the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SOTL)? What resources has ASHA developed for faculty in communication sciences and disorders?
• Mentoring students and colleagues is integral to the professional life of faculty and researchers in CSD. What programs and resources are available through ASHA that will allow faculty and students to take advantage of the benefits of mentoring?
• What is the value of completing a postdoctoral fellowship, rather than immediately accepting a faculty appointment after graduation? What resources are available in searching for and/or funding a postdoctoral opportunity?

Funding and Award Programs

• Clinical Practice Research Institute: Preparing New Researchers to Secure Federal Funding
• I am a clinician interested in research. How can I learn how other audiologists have obtained funding opportunities to support audiology and hearing science research?
• What are some common grantsmanship strengths and weaknesses?

General Higher Education in CSD

• Are there any events at the 2010 ASHA Convention that would be of particular interest to PhD students, faculty, and researchers?
• What does the speech-language pathologist or audiologist need to know about genetics when conducting assessments?
• What should I know about telehealth and telepractice? How does telepractice apply to audiology and speech-language pathology?
• What aspects of cultural competence are unique to higher education, researchers, and educators of future professionals?
• How is ASHA addressing recruitment needs of the discipline?
• Why does the audiologist or speech-language pathologist need to be concerned about the global field of communication sciences and disorders?

Interprofessional Education

• What programs in communication sciences and disorders (CSD) are implementing interprofessional education models?
• Why is greater emphasis being placed on interprofessional education in health care? What impact will it have on the education of audiologists and speech-language pathologists?

Multicultural Issues

• International Opportunities for Speech-Language Pathology Master's Students: The Teachers College Columbia University's Bolivia and Ghana Programs

PhD Education

• Higher Education Practices That Promote PhD Completion
• Is there any new information about what is being done about the PhD Shortage?
• What are the details and status of the University of Cincinnati's innovative approach to PhD education?
• What is the latest information on PhD Education?

Research

• Inspiring Undergraduates to Pursue Researcher Careers: What Programs and Faculty Can Do
• What are the phases of intervention research?
• What is translational research?
• What funding and resources are available for international research?
• Don't most researchers who participate in collaborations "just do it"? Why should researchers think explicitly about the process of collaboration at all?
• What resources are available regarding research and clinical management of older Americans? What information will be useful to educators and students?
• What resources are available to assist faculty with integration of clinical practice and research in education?

Scholarly Publishing

• What are trends in scholarly publishing?