SLP Learning Hour

Guest: Alicia Smalls, MPH, MA, CF-SLP, CBIS - This course explores the role of speech-language pathologists in public health, including increasing their knowledge of the incidence and prevalence based on risk factors, identifying and addressing disparities in access to healthcare and speech-language pathology referrals, and strategies to tackle the silent epidemic by contributing to sports-related concussion initiatives as a field, individually, and within our communities. Alicia discusses the epidemiology of mild traumatic brain injury in sports concussion research, highlights the lack of access and provision of speech-language pathology services within the athletic community, and addresses the areas of the brain affected and cognitive communicative deficits that may arise.

Guest: Jay Lucker, Ed.D., CCC-A/SLP, FAAA - This course explores several topics on sports concussions and hidden hearing loss. Dr. Lucker highlights how hearing loss and auditory processing disorders impact student-athletes with sports concussions, in addition to the steps to take to check to see if an athlete may have an auditory processing disorder after a concussion.

Guest: Tiffany C. Gurley-Nettles, Ph.D., CCC-SLP - This course explores neuropsychology to understand behavior as it relates to the brain and the influences of illnesses or brain injuries on behavior and cognitive functions. Dr. Gurley-Nettles discusses how brain injury and behavioral and emotional changes emerge from the injury itself, the distress from adapting to the changes following the TBI, or a combination of the two. She highlights how clinical neuropsychologists have been instrumental clinically and scientifically in the identification of problems, signs, and symptoms of sports-related head injuries. Additionally, she addresses their involvement in the areas of effective treatment plans following the cognitive and behavioral assessment, as well as the facilitation of recovery monitoring, returning to sports, school, and community reentry.

Guest: Shawnee Harle, MA - This course explores mental toughness and emotional intelligence as it relates to athletes and sports concussion management, however, these strategies are also for SLPs and AuDs to help them ignite the leader within. Helping student-athletes manage the fear behind concussions, which may lead to reducing the stigma, increased reporting of signs and symptoms, and decreased fear of isolation during protocols and repercussions, such as losing playing time and scholarships will be discussed. In addition, being unafraid of post-concussion cognitive-communication difficulties may lead to increased advocacy of accommodations. Shawnee highlights what is lacking within the sports community, which is a lack of addressing the athletes’ overall well-being. Steps to incorporate before, during, and after warming up the body and the mind, as well as preparing to deal with the “storms” from playing the sport by applying the social-emotional pillars and cognitive-communication strategies to athletic training, brain health, and the everyday physical exercises will be provided.

Guest: Danielle Hyde, MA, SLP-CCC, Reg. CASLPO - This course explores helping athletes who have sustained sports-related concussions develop their communication and cognitive skills to gain independence, reduce their frustrations, successfully return to work or school, and return to the activities and social interactions that are important to them. Danielle discusses skilled assessment and treatment, as well as collaborative and person-centered approaches to help understand challenges, identify specific goals and develop evidence-based treatment plans to achieve successful communication and swallowing outcomes.

*** This episode is not available for ASHA CEUs.****

Guest: Dr. Arlene Carney, Ph.D., CCC-A - This podcast provides listeners with scenarios and answers to questions about ethical issues related to the supervision of audiology assistants, avoiding conflicts of interest in working with device manufacturers, ethical issues that can arise when managing instrumentations, and the relation between ASHA’s Code of Ethics and state licensure and other regulatory boards.

*** This episode is not available for ASHA CEUs.****

Guest: Lynne Brady Wagner, MA, CCC-SLP - This podcast provides listeners with scenarios and answers to questions about ethical issues regarding potential conflicts between autonomy and beneficence in providing services to cognitively communicatively impaired adults, ethical issues related to informed consent in providing services for patients with communication impairments, and speech-language pathologist’s role in the four quadrants decision-making model when making decisions on services for patients with communication disorders.

*** This episode is not available for ASHA CEUs.****

Guest: Pamela Wiley, PhD, CCC-SLP - This podcast will introduce listeners to the importance of ethical decision-making in private practice, how ethics influences hiring and personnel supervision, the role of ethics in building business relationships, how ethics influences the growth and development of private practice, and the relationship of ethics and successful client recruitment.

*** This episode is not available for ASHA CEUs.****

Guest: Lynn Williams, PhD, CCC-SLP - This podcast will introduce listeners to strategies for developing interprofessional teams, the requirements for ethical interprofessional practice, strategies for addressing and negotiating conflicts and competition in interprofessional practice, developing successful interprofessional teams in school practice, and the ASHA Code of Ethics principles and rules related to interprofessional practice.

*** This episode is not available for ASHA CEUs.****

Guest: Yvette Hyter, PhD, CCC-SLP - This podcast will introduce listeners to the role of ethics in international practice, the types of unintended outcomes that can occur when practicing overseas, the use of culturally responsive approaches to assessment and intervention, the international guidelines and policies to be aware of in the development of international practices, the importance of developing sustainable international practices, and the role of volunteerism in overseas programs.