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This program presents current events, issues, and difficult situations involving diagnostic and procedural coding, billing, and documentation. Topics include an update on new and revised Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) codes, current issues in billing and documentation, the Medicare physician fee schedule, and the Medicare hospital outpatient prospective payment system. This program is intended for audiologists who have billing or coding responsibilities, and administrators who oversee the finances of audiology services.
Accurate, efficient, quantitative, and qualitative documentation of clinical services is an important part of the role of the speech-language pathologist in any medical or clinical setting. Documentation is used to justify services to third party payers, demonstrate compliance with various regulatory requirements, function as an official source of information in a legal proceeding, and communicate to referral sources clinical findings and client progress. This program defines critical variables that describe “medical necessity” and “skilled service of speech-language pathology” in order to get claims paid.
Evidence-based practice demands careful research, but how do busy professionals find the time? Increasingly, extant databases are used to accumulate knowledge and test hypotheses at more rapid rates. This program describes the process of conducting secondary analyses of existing databases to answer questions of relevance to speech and language development and disorders.
Speech-language pathologists play a critical role in screening, diagnosing, and enhancing the social communication development and quality of life of children, adolescents, and adults with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). This program emphasizes the importance of family involvement and collaboration with a variety of professionals and communication partners, the facilitation of peer-mediated learning, the continuity of services across environments, and the importance of matching service delivery to meaningful outcomes.
The development of communication skills is a dynamic process that is shaped by interdependent factors intrinsic to the child and in interaction with the environment. SLPs have an opportunity to alter the course of development through provision of early intervention services.
Each year over 20,000 children are adopted from abroad into the United States. More than 50% are eventually referred for speech and language services, but SLPs can find it difficult to make appropriate diagnostic and intervention decisions because newly adopted children lack proficiency in any language. This program reviews evidence-based information on typical and atypical language acquisition patterns in internationally adopted children, along with assessment and intervention guidelines. Children adopted before age 2 are the primary focus, but information about older children is also provided.
Millions are exposed to loud music as musicians or listeners. Learn how audiologists are promoting hearing health among school-age children, explore today’s risks for noise-induced hearing loss, and assess the limitations of hearing conservation strategies.
This brochure answers important questions that caregivers have, including “What Is an Ear Infection?” “What Are the Signs of an Ear Infection?” “How Can I Tell if My Child Has Trouble Hearing?” and more.
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