The Colorado Speech-Language Hearing Association will present a conference on Monday, November 9th, 2009, (schedule TBA) titled: Neurologically Speaking: Applying advances in brain science to intervention with struggling students

The speaker will be Dr. Martha Burns, Director of the Clinical Specialty Market for Scientific Learning Corporation. Her bio, as posted on the CSHA website, follows:

Dr. Martha Burns is the Director of the Clinical Specialty Market for Scientific Learning Corporation. Dr. Burns has been a practicing speech language pathologist in the Chicago area for 40 years. She serves on the Faculty of Northwestern University, department of communication sciences and disorders, in Evanston, Illinois. Dr. Burns is a Fellow of the American Speech Language Hearing Association and has received honors from Northwestern University, Evanston Hospital Corporation, the American Speech Language Hearing Foundation and St. Xavier University.

Doody’s Rating Service selected her book on Right Hemisphere Dysfunction published through Aspen Press as one of the best health sciences books of 1997. In addition to that book, Dr. Burns is the author of a book on aphasia and the test Burns Brief Inventory of Communication and Cognition published by The Psychological Corporation. She has also published numerous articles on language development, language disorders, auditory processing disorders, and adult neurological disorders in professional journals.

Check the following website for updates. http://www.cshassoc.org/cshaconf.html

New Alum Website Announced

Kathleen Kronenwetter, '92 announces her new website, http://www.openbooktherapy.com.

Her practice provides "direct services to children and adults in Sunnyvale, California and the surrounding communities for accent reduction, articulation delays, social skills, social thinking, stuttering, language delays and language disorders. They also provide materials via mail and PDF books for download.

Congratulations Kathleen!

As the US Congress debates Health Care reform, ASHA continues to provide input to ensure that speech-language pathology and audiology issues, such as therapy caps, direct access to audiologists, fixing the conversion factor of the Medicare fee schedule, and comprehensive coverage of services are included in the debate. For further information, see the following website, http://www.asha.org/advocacy/2009/CongressBegDebateHealthCareReform.htm or contact Ingrida Lusis, ASHA’s Director of Federal and Political Advocacy, at 202-624-5951 or via e-mail at ilusis@asha.org.

ASHA's Government Relations and Public Policy (GRPP) Board is also soliciting member input on 2010 Public Policy Agenda at http://www.asha.org/peer-review/publicpolicy.htm

The Colorado Speech Language and Hearing Association regularly lists jobs in the state. Check out the listings for July:
http://www.cshassoc.org/jobs.html

Sister Merry Harmony

We hear from Kate Ingmundson that Sister Merry Harmony has two gigs coming up in July. On July 10th, from 7:30 to 9:30 pm, Sister Merry will be at the Cannon Mine in Lafayette. It's a charming, intimate venue, in an old house on South Public Road. On July 24th, Sister Merry will be playing in the evening at Super Joe's, a coffee house in Superior.

In the meantime, you may want to consider hiring Sister Merry Harmony to provide entertainment at your parties this summer! Bar-B-Ques, birthdays, anniversaries, funerals, rocket launchings, ship christenings, mass baptisms, (almost) any occasion! We will play for an hour. It's very affordable, especially if your friends chip in! What a unique gift for friends and family!

Cost is $150 for an hour long performance. If you need for us to bring a sound system, there will be an additional charge of $25. Email Kate at blueshowler@yahoo.com, Please put “Sister Merry Harmony gig” in the subject line, or your email might go to the spam file! Or, you can call Kate at 720-270-7452.

Please remember that the SMH MySpace page is a work in progress...if you haven't seen it in a few weeks, you might want to check it out:
http://www.myspace.com/sistermerryharmony

Kate, Annie, and Duffy
Sister Merry Harmony

Check out the entries being logged into Twitter on:
http://search.twitter.com/search?q=better+hearing+speech+month+OR+%23bhs...

CU Graduate Poster Session

Come to the SLHS 5000 Poster Session
Pui Fong Kan invites all SLHS folks to attend the poster presentation by the graduate students in SLHS 5000 (Research Methods). The presentations will take place in SLHS Room 230 from 12:30 to 2:15 pm on 4/17 (Friday). Students will present their own research studies.

The presentations are one of the requirements for the course. Students in this class have done a tremendous amount of work, including research design, recruitment of participants, data collection, data analysis, and data presentation. Feel free to contact Fui Fong Kan at SLHS if you have any questions about the event.

CSHA's Spring Conference and Job Fair 2009
Saturday, May 2, 2008 - 8 am to 3:45 pm in conjunction with the CSHA Job Fair

MONEY MATTERS: All your Billing Questions Answered!

Presenter: Steven C. White, PhD, CCC-A
Director of Health Care Economics and Advocacy, ASHA

Dr. White will discusses:
● Third party payer
● Advocacy
● Coding
● Medicare
● Negotiation to improve coverage and payment with employer-based health plans

Great for SLPs, PTs, and OTs!

The Children’s Hospital Conference Center, 13123 East 16th Ave. Aurora, CO 80045

Check out ASHA!

According to the ASHA Leader, Facebook has become a "powerful new way for professionals in communication sciences and disorders to network with one another, nurture students and young researchers, and raise public awareness of the discipline." Maggie McGary, assistant Web content developer at ASHA encourages professionals to put away their skepticism about Facebook's reputation as a "place for kids", saying "Definitely not true!" More than 10,000 members have joined ASHA's Facebook community in the past few months, 20% of whom are 35 years and older. ASHA president Kate Gottfred agrees, "Wherever there is a connection--through special interest divisions, publications, chat rooms, or boards and committees--you have a home in ASHA. Come claim that home."

To join go to: www.new.facebook.com/pages/The-America-Speech-Language-HearingAssociatio...

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The tools on the left hand menu on Google's information page are helpful and provide advanced search tips, support for Libraries and Publishers.
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