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Academic and Educational Issues
- Academic and clinical education
- Accreditation of academic and clinical educational programs
- Distance learning and on-line education
- Development of clinical doctoral programs in audiology
- Innovative curricular modifications of academic and clinical programs
- Evaluation/assessment of academic and clinical programs
- Clinical certification, clinical fellowship, and clinical externship
On-line application models
Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC)
- Language development/facilitation via AAC
- Language representation (graphics, sign, etc.)
- Augmented input
- Technology issues (development, devices/software)
- Funding and policy issues
- Inclusion of AAC users in education, work, and community life
- AAC applications and acquired disabilities
- AAC applications and developmental disabilities
- Consumer and family issues
- Literacy development service delivery models and practices
Vocabulary selection
- Personnel development and training specifically related to AAC
- Multicultural/cross linguistic issues specifically related to AAC
- General discussion of AAC technology issues
- Education and training issues specific to AAC
- Administrative and regulatory issues related to AAC
- AAC strategies for young children
Autism Spectrum Disorders
- Theoretical models of autism spectrum disorders
- Early screening for autism spectrum disorders
- Prevalence of autism spectrum disorders
- Developmental characteristics and trajectories of children with autism spectrum disorders
- Sensory processing issues in autism spectrum disorders
- Cognitive processing in autism spectrum disorders
- Social-communicative partners of individuals with autism spectrum disorders
- Impact of autism on family members
- Identification and assessment of autism spectrum disorders
- Treatment of autism spectrum disorders in children and adults
- Efficacy of assessment and treatment of autism spectrum disorders
- Outcomes research in autism spectrum disorders
- Multicultural/cross linguistic issues specifically related to autism spectrum disorders
- Etiologies of autism spectrum disorders and the association between ASD and related conditions
- Broader autism phenotype
- Neurobiology of autism spectrum disorders
- Administrative and regulatory issues related to autism spectrum disorders
- Personnel preparation issues specific to serving individuals with ASD
- Consumer issues related to autism spectrum disorders
Business, Management, and Professional Issues
- Human resource management: supervision, performance evaluations, recruitment and retention, employee discipline, conflict management, coaching and mentoring, use of support personnel
- Billing and reimbursement: coding, managed care, Medicare and 3rd party reimbursement
Budgeting and financial management
- Service delivery models: private practice, corporate SLP and AUD, and interdisciplinary concerns
- Risk management, legal and ethical issues
- Performance improvement, improvement science, and outcome measurement
- Government, regulatory and compliance issues related to JCAHO, OSHA, CARF, HIPAA, etc.
- Licensure and independent provider status
- Marketing and consumer relations
- Leadership Program development
- Project management
Fluency
- Theoretical models of fluency and fluency disorders
- Development of fluency in individuals with and without disorders
- Cognitive, psychological, social, linguistic, and cultural factors related to fluency and fluency disorders
- Physiological, neurological, acoustic, and perceptual issues related to fluency and fluency disorders
- Prevention of fluency disorders
- Education and training issues specific to fluency
- Outcomes research in fluency disorders
- Assessment and treatment of fluency disorders
- Computer-based and other instrumentation for assessment and treatment of fluency disorders
- Consumer issues related to fluency and fluency disorders
- Multicultural and cross-linguistic issues related to fluency and fluency disorders
- Effects of various communication disorders on speech fluency
- Administrative and regulatory issues related to fluency
Issues in Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Populations
- General policy or service delivery issues regarding multicultural/cross linguistic populations.
- General communicative issues of gay, lesbian, and bisexual populations.
- General recruitment, retention, graduation and job placement of diverse students and faculty in our professions.
- General professional issues related to culturally and linguistically diverse populations.
International reports.
- Cultural competence for professionals.
- Administrative and regulatory issues related to multicultural/cross linguistic and diversity issues.
Note: Proposals that address multicultural/cross linguistic and/or diversity issues related to specific topic areas should be sent to the appropriate topic committee. For example, disorders in children acquiring both Spanish and English phonology should go to Speech Sound Disorders; multicultural/cross linguistic issues related to voice and resonance disorders and alaryngeal speech in the curricula should go to Academic and Educational Issues, etc.
Language and Learning in School-Age Children and Adolescents
- Models of collaboration and multi-disciplinary teaming, problem-solving models specifically with general education staff
- Response-to-Intervention (RtI) projects
- Administrative issues relating to changing models of service delivery
- Evolving models of assessment for eligibility using a response-to-intervention method
- Theoretical models of spoken and written language development and use in school-age children and adolescents
- Continued development of language in school-age children and adolescents with and without disorders
- Developing skills in metalinguistics and written language in school-age children and adolescents with and without disorders
- Cognitive processes and knowledge pertaining to language learning or use in school-age children and adolescents
- Comparisons of the spoken and written language behaviors of school-age children and adolescents with and without disorders
- Second-language acquisition and/or use in school-age children and adolescents
- Prevalence of language-learning disabilities in school-age children and adolescents
- Etiologies of language-learning disabilities and the association between LLD and related conditions
- Screening, evaluation, and treatment of spoken language abilities in school-age children and adolescents
- Prevention of language-learning disabilities
- Screening, evaluation, and treatment for linguistic aspects of reading, spelling, and writing disorder
- Language assessment and remediation for adults with developmental or language-learning disabilities
- Second-language/second-dialect instruction in school-age children and adolescents
- Education and training issues specific to language in school-age children and adolescents
Outcomes research
- Computer-based and other instrumentation for assessment and treatment of language-learning disabilities
- Multicultural/cross linguistic issues in language-learning disabilities
- Administrative and regulatory issues related to language and learning in school-age children and adolescents
- Phonological awareness in school-age children and adolescents
Language Disorders in Adults
- Language and cognitive abilities in adults with disorders
- Changes in language and cognitive abilities associated with aging
- Comparisons of language and cognitive behaviors in adults with disorders
- Prevention of adult language and cognitive disorders
- Aphasia and related disorders
- Communication disorders and other cognitive disturbances associated with traumatic brain injury, right hemisphere syndrome, focal prefrontal damage, and dementia
- Progressive neurological diseases
- Neurological syndromes
- Pharmacological, surgical, behavioral, and other interventions
- Teaming issues
- Education and training issues specific to language and cognition in adults
- Outcomes research
- Computer-based and other instrumentation for assessment and treatment of neurogenic language and cognitive disorders in adults
- Use of the Internet in assessment or treatment of neurogenic language and cognitive disorders in adults
- Augmentative and alternative communication (AAC)strategies for adults with acquired language and cognitive disorders
- Multicultural/cross linguistic issues in acquired language and cognitive disorders in adults
- Innovative treatment strategies including group and family/caregiver-focused approaches
Qualitative and ethnographic studies of disordered adult language and cognition
- Assessment of language, cognitive, and communication disorders associated with aphasia, TBI, right hemisphere syndrome, prefrontal damage, and dementia
- Administrative and regulatory issues related to language and cognitive disorders in adults
Language in Infants, Toddlers, and Preschoolers
- Theoretical models of language development and use in infants, toddlers, and preschool children
- Developing language systems in oral and/or alternative modes by young children
- Cognitive processes pertaining to language learning or use by young children
- Comparisons of the language behaviors of young children with typical and atypical language
Prevalence of developmental language disorders
- Screening, evaluation, and treatment for developmental language disorders in young children
- Etiologies of children's language disorders and the association with related conditions
- Programming for young children with severe or multiple disabilities
- Issues regarding teaming issues, collaborative consultation, transdisciplinary approaches, and other service delivery models
- Issues related to family systems and natural environments
- Personnel preparation issues specific to language in infants, toddlers, and preschoolers
- Outcomes research related to language in infants, toddlers, and preschool children
- Technology applications for assessment and treatment of language disorders in young children
- Augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) strategies for young children
- Cultural and linguistic differences in young children and their families
- Neuroscientific advances: relevance to clinical assessment and intervention
- Administrative and regulatory issues related to language in infants, toddlers, and preschool children
- Phonological awareness in infants, toddlers and preschoolers
Language Science
- Brain-behavior relationships: Cognition/language, neural plasticity
- Normal speech/language processes: Spoken and written language
- Theories and models of language and its disorders
- Computer-based and other research technologies for interfaces among speech, language, and sociocognitive/sociolinguistic processes
- Multicultural /cross-linguistic issues and research in language science
- Second language learning in adults
- Educational and professional issues specific to language science
Motor Speech in Adults and Children
- Intelligibility and comprehensibility
- Instrumental/objective assessment of motor speech disorders
- Dysarthria in adults
- Developmental dysarthria
- Comparison of normal and disordered speech motor control
- Changes in motor speech abilities associated with aging
- Apraxia in adults
- Motor speech disorders associated with traumatic brain injury
- Progressive and degenerative neurologic disease
- Neurologic syndromes
- Behavioral interventions
- Pharmacological, surgical, behavioral, and other interventions
- Outcomes/efficacy research
- Multicultural/cross linguistic issues in motor speech
- Administrative and regulatory issues in motor speech
Research Issues Across the Discipline
- Research that is relevant across speech, language, and hearing sciences
- Methodological concerns
- Securing research funding
- Evidence-based practice
- Ethics in research
- Statistics
- Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches
- Translational Research
- Interdisciplinary issues
- Research methodology and data analysis
Speech Science
- Anatomy and physiology of normal mechanism
- Speech acoustics and perception
- Instrumental assessment of normal mechanism
- Vocal fold modeling
- Vocal tract imaging and modeling
- Brain-behavior relationships: Speech/voice, neural plasticity
- Educational and professional issues in speech science
- Multicultural/cross linguistic aspects of speech production
Speech Sound Disorders in Children
- Theoretical models of articulation and phonological development and disorders
- Articulation and phonological development in children with and without disorders
- Articulation and phonological development in multilingual children with and without disorders
- Identification and assessment of articulation and phonological disorders in children
- Treatment of articulation and phonological disorders in children
- Assessment and treatment of articulation and phonological disorders in multilingual children
- Assessment and treatment of articulation and phonological disorders in special populations
- Technical advances in assessment and treatment of articulation and phonological disorders
- Efficacy of assessment and treatment of articulation and phonological disorders
- Prevention of articulation and phonological disorders
- Outcomes research in articulation and phonology
- Multicultural/cross linguistic issues specifically related to articulation and phonology in children
- Administrative and regulatory issues related to phonological and articulatory processes in children
- Phonological Awareness as it relates to Speech Sound Disorders
- Childhood Apraxia of Speech (CAS)
Swallowing and Swallowing Disorders
- Swallowing function in infants, children, and adults without disorders
- Multicultural/linguistic issues specifically related to swallowing
- Prevention of dysphagia in infants, children, and adults
- Innovative instrumentation for the assessment and treatment of dysphagia
- Diagnosis of dysphagia in infants, children, and adults
- Esophageal disorders
- Behavioral management of dysphagia in infants, children, and adults
- Management of dysphagia in special populations
- Pharmacological, surgical, and other non-behavioral interventions for dysphagia
- Nutritional management of persons with dysphagia
- Quality of life issues related to dysphagia
- Interdisciplinary and team issues
- Outcomes, efficacy, and effectiveness
- Professional education issues specific to dysphagia
- Ethical issues specific to dysphagia
- Education and training issues specific to swallowing
- Administrative, legislative and regulatory issues related to swallowing
Treatment of Hearing Loss and (Central) Auditory Processing Disorders in Children: (Re)habilitation and Educational Issues
- Communication abilities of children with hearing loss and their families
- Communication options for children with hearing loss and their families
- (Re)habilitation/audiologic strategies for children who are deaf or hard of hearing
- Early intervention for infants and toddlers with hearing loss
- Counseling families of children with hearing loss
- Counseling children and adolescents with hearing loss
- Vestibular rehabilitation in children
- Educational issues for children who are deaf or hard of hearing: Infant through school-age
- Computer-based and other instrumentation used in (re)habilitation of hearing loss in children
- Multicultural/cross linguistic issues specifically related to hearing loss and education or counseling issues
- Administrative and regulatory issues related to childhood hearing loss rehabilitation and education issues
- Speech and language development in children with hearing loss, including those using cochlear implants and/or hearing aids
- Aural (re)habilitation of children using cochlear implants and/or hearing aids
- Treatment of (C)APD in special populations including non-English speaking, hard of hearing, etc.
- Treatment of (C)APD (central auditory nervous system disorder) in diverse clinical populations (e.g., stroke patients, traumatic head injury, multiple sclerosis, aphasia, etc.)
- (C)APD intervention (management and treatment)
- Evidence-based practice and efficacy of treatment approaches for (C)APD
- Service delivery models in (C)APD: Schools, clinic, hospital, private practice
- Reimbursement for (C)APD-related services
- Hearing aid or cochlear implant hardware and technology in children
- Other hearing devices (e.g., magnetic transduction devices, transpositional hearing aids, tactile devices, etc.) in children
- ALDs (personal FM units, group amplification systems, other assistive devices) in children and schools
- Candidacy, selection, and fitting protocols in children
- Verification, coupler, and real-ear measures, and ANSI standards relative to children
- Speech perception, language acquisition, and other outcomes in children
- Education and training issues specific to cochlear implants, hearing aid, or other auditory prostheses in children
- Multicultural/cross linguistic issues specifically related to auditory prostheses in children
- Computer-based and other instrumentation used in fitting auditory prostheses in children
- Administrative and regulatory issues related to auditory prostheses in children
Voice, Resonance, and Alaryngeal Speech
- Basic science in voice production
- Voice production across the life span in individuals with and without disorders
- Diagnosis and management of functional and organic voice disorders
- Problems of the professional voice user
- Voice and speech production after head and neck cancer surgery
- Tracheostomy and alaryngeal speech
- Disorders of resonance and voice resulting from craniofacial anomalies, including cleft lip and palate
- Prevention and intervention issues related to voice disorders, craniofacial anomalies, or head and neck cancer
- Diagnosis and management of neurologic voice disorders
- Interdisciplinary and team issues
- Education and training issues specific to voice and resonance
- Outcomes research
- Computer-based and other instrumentation for assessment and treatment of voice and resonance disorders and alaryngeal speech
- Multicultural/cross linguistic issues specifically related to voice and resonance and alaryngeal speech
- Administrative and regulatory issues related to voice and resonance
Academic and Educational Issues
- Academic and clinical education
- Accreditation of academic and clinical educational programs
- Distance learning and on-line education
- Development of clinical doctoral programs in audiology
- Innovative curricular modifications of academic and clinical programs
- Evaluation/assessment of academic and clinical programs
- Clinical certification, clinical fellowship, and clinical externship
- On-line application models
Adult Diagnostics
- Prevalence of vestibular dysfunction or hearing loss and auditory dysfunction
- Auditory and vestibular disorders and syndromes in adults
- Behavioral assessment of hearing or balance function
- Physiologic assessment of hearing or balance function
- Facial nerve electroneurography
- Intraoperative monitoring
- Hearing conservation/noise
- Surgical and medical treatment of vestibular or auditory disorders
- Education and training issues specific to disorders and assessment
- Computer-based and other instrumentation used in the assessment of adults (excluding auditory prostheses)
- Multicultural/cross linguistic issues specifically related to disorders and assessment
- Administrative and regulatory issues related to disorders and assessment
Adult Treatment and Rehabilitation
- Communication abilities of adults with hearing loss and their families
- Rehabilitation/audiologic strategies for adults who are deaf or hard of hearing
- Rehabilitative intervention with balance problems
- Counseling adults with hearing and balance problems
- Aging factors and the management of hearing loss
- Impact of hearing loss on psychosocial function
- Impact of hearing loss on vocational function
- Education and training issues specific to audiologic and balance rehabilitation
- Computer-based and other instrumentation used in audiologic and balance rehabilitation
- Multicultural/cross linguistic issues specifically related to audiologic and balance rehabilitation
- Administrative and regulatory issues related to audiologic and balance rehabilitation
Business, Management, and Professional Issues
- Interdisciplinary concerns related to service delivery
- Topics in managed care, use of support personnel, and service delivery models
Ethical and legal issues
- Governmental and regulatory affairs
- Administration and financial management
- Coding and reimbursement
- Private practice and management issues
- Marketing
- Human resource management
- Risk management
- Quality improvement and outcome measures
- Consumer satisfaction tools
- Licensure and independent provider status
- Supervision
- Corporate speech-language pathology and audiology
- Education, training, and performance issues specific to business, management and regulation
Hearing Science
- Auditory neuroscience
- Acoustics and psychoacoustics
- Anatomy and physiology of the auditory system
- Signal processing
- Speech perception: psychophysical and physiological aspects
- Modeling of the ear and hearing
- Education and training issues specific to basic science and hearing
- Computer-based and other instrumentation used in auditory research
- Multicultural/cross linguistic issues specifically related to hearing science
- Administrative and regulatory issues related to hearing science
Issues in Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Populations
- General policy or service delivery issues regarding multicultural/cross linguistic populations
- General communicative issues of gay, lesbian, and bisexual populations
- General recruitment, retention, graduation and job placement of diverse students and faculty in our professions
- General professional issues related to culturally and linguistically diverse populations.
International reports
- Cultural competence for professionals
- Administrative and regulatory issues related to multicultural/cross linguistic and diversity issues
Note: Proposals that address multicultural/cross linguistic and/or diversity issues related to specific topic areas should be sent to the appropriate topic committee. For example, disorders in children acquiring both Spanish and English phonology should go to Speech Sound Disorders; multicultural/cross linguistic issues related to voice and resonance disorders and alaryngeal speech in the curricula should go to Academic and Educational Issues, etc.
Pediatric Diagnostics
- Prevalence of hearing loss and auditory dysfunction
- Congenital, hereditary, and acquired hearing loss
- Syndromes
- Screening procedures for newborns, infants and children
- Behavioral assessment of infants and children
- Physiologic assessment of infants and children
- Vestibular disorders and the assessment of children
- Surgical and medical treatment of hearing disorders in children
- Education and training issues specific to screening and assessment
- Computer-based and other instrumentation used in screening and assessment
- Multicultural/cross linguistic issues specially related to hearing loss in infants and children
- Administrative and regulatory issues related to hearing loss in infants and children
Research Issues Across the Discipline
- Research that is relevant across speech, language, and hearing sciences
- Methodological concerns
- Securing research funding
- Evidence-based practice
- Ethics in research
- Statistics
- Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches
- Translational Research
- Interdisciplinary issues
Treatment of Hearing Loss and (Central) Auditory Processing Disorders in Children: (Re)habilitation and Educational Issues
- Communication abilities of children with hearing loss and their families
- Communication options for children with hearing loss and their families
- (Re)habilitation/audiologic strategies for children who are deaf or hard of hearing
- Early intervention for infants and toddlers with hearing loss
- Counseling families of children with hearing loss
- Counseling children and adolescents with hearing loss
- Vestibular rehabilitation in children
- Educational issues for children who are deaf or hard of hearing: Infant through school-age
- Computer-based and other instrumentation used in (re)habilitation of hearing loss in children
- Multicultural/cross linguistic issues specifically related to hearing loss and education or counseling issues
- Administrative and regulatory issues related to childhood hearing loss rehabilitation and education issues
- Speech and language development in children with hearing loss, including those using cochlear implants and/or hearing aids
- Aural (re)habilitation of children using cochlear implants and/or hearing aids
- Treatment of (C)APD in special populations including non-English speaking, hard of hearing, etc.
- Treatment of (C)APD (central auditory nervous system disorder) in diverse clinical populations (e.g., stroke patients, traumatic head injury, multiple sclerosis, aphasia, etc.)
(C)APD intervention (management and treatment)
- Evidence-based practice and efficacy of treatment approaches for (C)APD
Service delivery models in (C)APD: Schools, clinic, hospital, private practice
Reimbursement for (C)APD-related services
Hearing aid or cochlear implant hardware and technology in children
- Other hearing devices (e.g., magnetic transduction devices, transpositional hearing aids, tactile devices, etc.) in children
- ALDs (personal FM units, group amplification systems, other assistive devices) in children and schools
- Candidacy, selection, and fitting protocols in children
- Verification, coupler, and real-ear measures, and ANSI standards relative to children
- Speech perception, language acquisition, and other outcomes in children
- Education and training issues specific to cochlear implants, hearing aid, or other auditory prostheses in children
- Multicultural/cross linguistic issues specifically related to auditory prostheses in children
- Computer-based and other instrumentation used in fitting auditory prostheses in children
- Administrative and regulatory issues related to auditory prostheses in children
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