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By Emily R. Doll
September 30, 2021
Selective mutism (SM) is an anxiety-based childhood disorder that prevents a child from speaking in specific situations—often this is anywhere outside the home, or to anyone other than immediate family members (American Psychiatric Association, 2013). One…
By Nan Bernstein Ratner and Shelley B. Brundage
July 27, 2021
In this article, we address two major themes: We start first with what we call popular “mysteries”—supposed facts about stuttering that the lay public finds odd or surprising. These tend to involve conditions under which stuttering behaviors vary in…
By Nassrine Noureddine, Darla Hagge, and William Ofstad
June 28, 2021
You would expect any team caring for the health of you or your loved ones to be trained together, effective in communication and teamwork. You should expect for each professional to understand the roles of others on the team and share a mutual respect for…
By Geraldine P. Wallach, Ph.D., CCC-SLP & Alaine Ocampo, Ph.D., CCC-SLP
February 25, 2021
In this article, we ask the question: How do we begin to pull together several interacting skills often interpreted under the broad-based heading of “central auditory processing” in a coherent and meaningful way? We will address ways that SLPs can…
By Billy T. Ogletree, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, Catherine Brewer Smith Professor of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Western Carolina University
December 29, 2020
Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC), as a subdiscipline of Speech-Language Pathology, has been around for approximately 70 years (Beukelman & Light, 2020). During this time, AAC has been shaped by numerous trends. Most recently, these have…