Professions without Borders: The CanHear Uganda Project
In Uganda, approximately 700,000 individuals have a hearing loss. The CanHear Uganda Project is working to provide hearing health-care education and resources to a community in Uganda.
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Acquired Brain Injury – An S-LP Point of View
For the past 13 years, my life as a speech-language pathologist has been enriched by the challenges of providing services to an amazing client with acquired brain injury: Kaitlyn Woods.
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Auditory Processing Disorder: Slaying the Hidden Monster
What I thought would be a minor deficit has shown itself clearly to me, after six years of searching, to be a monster in the closet. Now the monster in the closet has a name: Auditory Processing Disorder (APD). I now work to slay the hidden monster through the hard work of learning everything I can about it.
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“Shock and Awe,” Then Success
“It was basically shock and awe,” Kelly says, “and disbelief over the thought of using the web for an educational service like speech therapy.” A fellow school leader said the delivery method should be “illegal,” and another pointed out that it was probably noncompliant. An undeterred Kelly decided to test out the service anyway. Fast-forward to 2013, and the same naysayers are now asking her for online speech therapy recommendations.
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