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| This issue of The ASHA Leader focuses on issues related to health-care settings. It includes information about ASHA's recent health care survey, dysphagia treatment, treatment in a Bolivian hospital, negotiating with payers, and supervision. |
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| High Response to ASHA Survey Reveals Progress in Health Care |
| The results of the 2007 SLP Health Care Survey indicate that progress has been made in the areas of shortages, work conditions, and salaries. |
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| Negotiating with Health Care Payers |
| Clinicians and business owners can have successful contracting relationships with payers, but first they must prepare to negotiate the best deal. Learn tips to prepare for negotiation. |
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| Why Supervision Matters in Health Care Settings |
| By accepting and training a student, managers in health care settings are also grooming a potential future employee. |
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| Newborn Screening Act Needs Reauthorization |
| Reauthorization of the Early Hearing Detection and Intervention (EHDI) Act of 2007 is approaching a Nov. 16 deadline, the target adjournment data announced by the House of Representatives. |
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| A Passion for Literacy: David Baldacci |
| Best-selling novelist David Baldacci, known for his high-intrigue thrillers has taken a new turn in a life powered by his love of language with Wish You Well, a story steeped in the Appalachian Mountains of Virginia. The book led to a foundation that supports family literacy efforts. |
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| E-Learning: Educating the 21st Century Speech-Language Pathologist |
| Last in a series on topics addressed at the Speech-Language Pathology Education Summit. |
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| An Advocate for Self-Assessment: Barbara Weinstein |
| In an interview, Barbara Weinstein reflects on the 25-year evolution of the groundbreaking Hearing Handicap Inventory for the Elderly self-assessment inventory. *Audiology* |
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| Evidence-Based to Reality-Based Dysphagia Practice |
| Three case studies illustrate common and rare clinical dilemmas and demonstrate the common components of the process of evidence-based clinical problem-solving. |
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| Student SLPs Work and Learn in Bolivia |
| In helping students develop cultural sensitivity, Teachers College of Columbia University developed a program in which speech-language pathology master's students spend a month in Bolivia. |
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| Hearing Preservation in Patients With a Cochlear Implant |
| One of the newest applications of implantable hearing technology now in clinical trails combine electric and acoustic stimulation into a hybrid device. |
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