This spring marks the 1-year anniversary of our “new normal.” It is a challenging remembrance for those of us who spent the past year juggling caregiving responsibility with full-time work, while feeling socially isolated and/or forgotten by society. Local governments debated capacity limits for restaurants and bars, and we wondered...
To paraphrase Betsey Stevenson, an economist at the University of Michigan: COVID took a crowbar to existing disparities and pried them wide open (Grose, 2021). Academics as a group tend to be relatively privileged in terms of education and socioeconomic status. Yet, concerns regarding gender disparities predominate within academia, particularly...
Table of Contents Introduction to Creating and Documenting Clinical Impact Please note: The following transcript has been edited for length and clarity. Transcript Slide 1:Hello, thanks for choosing to participate in this unit called Creating and Documenting Clinical Impact.My name is Trina Spencer and I’m the chair of the Committee...
The current educational model for speech-language pathologists (SLPs) was established when the master’s became the entry-level degree in 1963. Since then, the educational model for SLPs has evolved incrementally with standards being added periodically, such as the recently added knowledge and skills pertaining to interprofessional collaborative practice and clinical education/supervision....
According to the World Health Organization (WHO,2010), interprofessional education (IPE) occurs “when two or more professions learn about, from and with each other to enable effective collaboration and improve health outcomes” (p. 13). ASHA-accredited programs are actively engaged in addressing the first part of this definition by incorporating IPE experiences...
The following is a transcript of the presentation video, edited for clarity LAUREN: Hi everybody, my name is Lauren Calandruccio I’m an associate professor at Case Western Reserve University, and I’m the chair of the 2019 Hearing Research Symposium, and no, I did not choose the starting time of 7:30a.m....
The following is a transcript of the presentation video, edited for clarity. LAUREN: Good morning everybody. Hi. My name is Lauren Calandruccio. I’m an Associate Professor at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland Ohio, and the chair for the 2019 Hearing Research Symposium. I am honored to introduce our second...
Publishing a research article in a peer-reviewed journal is a colossal act of deferred gratification, wherein the academic researcher undergoes a rigorous process of generating an idea, working out a scientific method, securing institutional permission to conduct the research, analyzing the results, formulating and writing a manuscript, submitting the article...
Audiology programs across the nation faced the same questions in mid-March 2020: What will we do now? How will we deliver excellent clinical education and serve our patients while conducting clinics and classes virtually? What learning opportunities will the students miss? How can students learn clinical skills best during this...