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Allied Corner Speech-Language Pathologists Listen to Your Buds concert slated for Washington, DC In celebration of national Better Hearing and Speech Month in May, the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) will host a Listen to Your Buds concert in Washington, DC. The event aims to inspire kids to turn down the volume of personal audio technology. The concert features one or more leading children’s musicians and is being promoted to DC-area schools as a field trip destination. A similar concert was held in November 2008 at Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry, where nearly 1,000 Chicago-area schoolchildren learned about the risk of hearing loss from misuse of personal audio technology. ASHA’s Listen to Your Buds campaign is part of a broader effort—“America: Tuned In Today…But Tuned Out Tomorrow?”— which promotes safe listening practices to all age groups. For more information, visit www.listentoyourbuds.org. Better Hearing & Speech Month is an annual event dedicated to raising awareness about communication disorders and promoting treatment. For online resources, including a store, games, and marketing material, visit www.asha.org/bhsm. Source: ASHA. (2009, January 8). ASHA announced plans for listen to your buds “safe listening” concert in Washington, DC. Retrieved February 2, 2009 from http://www.asha.org/ about/news/2009/DCconcert.htm T R E N D S & O U T LO O K S F O R A L L I E D H E A LT H T R AV E L E R S Save the Date April 1-30 Occupational Therapy Month The month-long celebration showcases the importance of occupational therapy. For organizational tools to promote the profession, visit www. promoteot.org/AI_OTMonth.html May 1-31 Better Hearing & Speech Month This year’s theme, “Helping People Communicate,” is aimed at increasing awareness of communication disorders. For related resources, visit www.asha.org/bhsm May 25-29 AST’s 40th Annual Conference Association of Surgical Technologists Las Vegas, Nevada www.ast.org/conference/index.aspx Interested? Circle Career Card No. 612 or go to www.healthcaretraveler.com/readerservice Respiratory Therapists Which cities are most challenging for asthma sufferers? The Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America recently ranked the 100 largest U.S. metro areas in terms of which cities are the most challenging places for allergy sufferers to live. The Washington-based nonprofit organization used 12 factors to analyze the metropolises, including crude death rate from asthma, pollen counts, public smokefree laws, air pollution, number of people Interested? Circle Career Card No. 624 or go to www.healthcaretraveler.com/readerservice without health insurance, number of asthma specialists, and number of asthma medications used per patient. The U.S. cities that ranked as the five worst asthma cities for 2008 are St. Louis, Missouri; Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Birmingham, Alabama; Chattanooga, Tennessee; and Charlotte, North Carolina. Ranking as the five best places for asthma sufferers to live are Cape Coral, Florida; Seattle, Washington; Minneapolis, Minnesota; Colorado Springs, Colorado; and Portland, Oregon. For a complete list of all 100 cities evaluated, visit www.webmd.com/asthma/ news/20090129/st-louis-challenge-forasthma-sufferers. HT Source: Hendrick, B. (2009, January 29). St. Louis a challenge for asthma sufferers. WebMd. Retrieved February 4, 2009, from http://www.webmd.com/asthma/ news/20090129/st-louis-challenge-for-asthma-sufferers Jennifer Samuels is associate editor of Healthcare Traveler. 54 Healthcare Traveler March 2009 http://www.healthspecialists.com/ http://www.promoteot.org/AI_OTMonth.html http://www.promoteot.org/AI_OTMonth.html http://www.asha.org/bhsm http://www.healthcaretraveler.com/readerservice http://www.ast.org/conference/index.aspx http://www.listentoyourbuds.org http://www.asha.org/bhsm http://www.asha.org/about/news/2009/DCconcert.htm http://www.asha.org/about/news/2009/DCconcert.htm http://www.webmd.com/asthma/news/20090129/st-louis-challenge-for-asthma-sufferers http://www.webmd.com/asthma/news/20090129/st-louis-challenge-for-asthma-sufferers http://www.webmd.com/asthma/news/20090129/st-louis-challenge-for-asthma-sufferers http://www.richardshealthcare.com http://www.webmd.com/asthma/news/20090129/st-louis-challenge-for-asthma-sufferers http://www.healthcaretraveler.com/readerservice

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