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ON A TUESDAY AFTERNOON LAST MARCH, KRISTIN MONTERO CHECKED IN AT AN URGENT CARE CLINIC NEAR DALLAS, TEXAS. 'MY CHEST WAS TIGHT AND I FELT AIR-HUNGRY; SHE SAYS-AND SHE COULDN'T [...]

TAKE A WALK ALONG A BUSY STREET IN ANY LARGE AMERICAN CITY. Horns bleat and bawl, elevated trains rumble overhead, a jackhammer reverberates in the pavement--and in the teeth, for [...]

Every evening, the Johnsons gather around the dinner table to share a meal and tell stories about their day. Bill had a rough commute, but he tells a funny story [...]

Speech-language pathologists In many skilled nursing facilities report high productivity expectations amid sweeping changes in health care delivery. And they're speaking out about the effect of these expectations on patient [...]

Although the association wasn't born there, in 1930 the seeds that would grow into today's ASHA were planted there. In only its fifth year of existence, ASHA--then the American Society [...]

Hearing aid provider hi HealthInnovations, a subsidiary of United Healthcare (UHC), has begun sending a 'hearing test kit' to physicians--despite concerns voiced by audiologists and professional hearing organizations about specific [...]

A crowd of clinicians drifted from a session on looming changes in health care, and Caroline Ahmon lingered, hoping to ask presenter Ann Kummer a few questions. But her question [...]

It's 6:30 a.m. in Los Angeles, and speech-language pathologist Betty McMicken has a long day ahead of her. After a few hours of volunteering at the Anne Douglas Center for [...]

'Be empowering of yourself' was speaker Lynn Steffes' theme in her opening address at ASHA's 2012 Health Care/ Business Institute, held in April in Memphis, Tennessee. She stressed the importance [...]

Speech-language pathologists and audiologists who want to join one of the 27 recently selected accountable care organizations (ACOs) may want to begin investigating how to participate in these fledgling organizations. [...]

Stephanie Sjoblad's new service dog, Lulu, always goes with her to the heating clinic. Although Sjoblad was diagnosed with a moderate hearing loss at age 5, Lulu doesn't go to [...]

In two 2011 conference calls and a January 2012 meeting with hearing aid provider hi HealthInnovations, ASHA expressed concerns about hi HealthInnovations' online hearing check and direct-to-consumer hearing aid sales. [...]

Harry Belafonte brought the music of Jamaica's streets and fields to America--and with it an awareness-raising message about poverty and inequality. He's passed on a legacy of work on American [...]

Audiological innovation tends to be measured in new technologies, but Jaclyn Spitzer--director of audiology and speech-language pathology at Columbia University in New York City--is more focused on using existing technology [...]

Here's a recent post from http://blog.asha.org. Taming the Wild Editor If you're a prospective writer for The ASHA Leader, editors--stunted authors who 'toil in bumpy office chairs, sip stale coffee, [...]

In a June 15 letter to the American Psychiatric Association (APA), ASHA commented for a third time on the proposed content of the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical [...]

It's been decades since rock 'n' roll got its start in Memphis, Tennessee, and in that time much of the city has changed. But it still has trolleys and music, [...]

Jill Bolte Taylor, whose inspirational story of recovery from stroke is recounted in the best-selling book My Stroke of Insight, will deliver the keynote address at the opening convention session [...]

David Seidler, who won a best screenwriter Oscar in February for the film 'The King's Speech,' will receive ASHA's Annie Glenn Award at the 2011 ASHA Convention in San Diego. [...]