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Federal Plan Mandates Speech Treatment: Carriers Required To Cover Children's Habilitative Services in 2010
Insurance carriers that provide health coverage under the Federal Employee Health Benefits Program will be required to cover habilitative speech-language services for children in 2010.
Medicare Begins Audits of Claims
Audiologists and speech-language pathologists in southern and western states may face audits for improper payments on Medicare claims.
Illinois Passes Endoscopy Legislation
In response to advocacy efforts, a new state law enacted in August will amend speech-language pathologist's scope of practice to include the independent use of endoscope procedures.
Honoring ASHA Members in Uniform
Three speech-language pathologists in the U.S. Air Force share their experiences in the military; The cochlear implant team at Wilford Hall Medical Center serves a growing number of cochlear implant recipients since it began in the early 1980s; After the death of her fiancé in Afghanistan, Amanda Charney began a fledgling organization that will provide grants for the treatment of children with communication disorders.
New CE Provider Logo
The logo for ASHA-approved CE providers has a new look and provides an easy, convenient way to identify CE courses that offer ASHA CEUs.
Mechanisms of Noise-Induced Hair Cell Death: Understanding Molecular Mechanisms Yields Promising Treatments
nderstanding the molecular mechanisms of hair cell death yields promising treatments that may one day prevent noise-induced hearing loss.
Professional Partners in the Schools: Audiologists and speech-language pathologists collaborate to help students with hearing loss
Audiologists and speech-language pathologists collaborate to help students with hearing loss.
Audiology in Brief: November 3, 2009
Talk to Me: Issues in Acquiring Spoken Language for Young Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders
New research on facilitating the emergence of spoken language in children with autism will help evaluate the efficacy of various treatment approaches.
Beyond Audibility: Hearing Loss and the Perception of Speech
Amplification can often solve the problem of reduced audibility, but it does not yet address the impaired frequency resolution or loss of temporal processing experienced by people with moderate sensorineural hearing loss.
First Person on the Last Page
A service project brought electrolarynges to people in Costa Rica and new knowledge to medical professionals.
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