The ASHA Leader - September 21, 2010 - (Page 1)

Postmaster: Deliver on or before sePtember 21 September 21, 2010 • Vol. 15 No. 11 See page 10 September 21, 2010 inside S c h o o l - Ba s e d P r ac t i c e 3 Bottom Line: Medicaid Reimbursement in Schools 5 Biological markers of reading and speech-innoise perception in the auditory system; new meningitis test; wind turbine noise; kidney disease linked to hearing loss. 8 New Fluency, Cognition Diagnosis Codes 10 Schools 2010: Learning and Leadership in Las Vegas 12 RTI ProgressMonitoring Tools 16 Classroom Acoustics: What Possibly Could Be New? New Research and Online Resources 20 Schools Practice: 23 From the President: Taking the Lead in Schools 24 Schools Survey Caseload Data 30 Internet: Speech Sound Disorders 34 Identification and Treatment of Landau-Kleffner Syndrome products eptember marks the beginning of a new academic year for tens of thousands of school-based speech-language pathologists and audiologists. This issue of The ASHA Leader focuses on school-based practice. Highlights of the recent Schools Conference in Las Vegas appear in an article beginning on p. 10. Sandra Laing Gillam and Laura Justice review tools available for monitoring students’ progress in response-to-intervention programs (p. 12), and Peggy B. Nelson and Susan B. Blaeser look at progress in the area of classroom acoustics (p. 16). You’ll find resources and research as well as articles on personnel shortages, caseload statistics from the 2010 schools survey, and more on pp. 20–25. S 40 Buyers Guide: Schools-related 41 Classifieds 47 First Person on the Last Page: Barbara Williams Hodson Teens at Risk: “We’re on the Edge of an Epidemic” Research on Hearing Loss Has Long-term Implications for Audiologists Part 1 of a series by Marat Moore www.asha.org online audiology Conference Register now for the 2010 virtual conference on early hearing detection and intervention. See p. 31. R esearch on teen hearing loss published in the Aug. 18 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) has implications for audiologists in the short term and in the decades to come. In “Change in Prevalence of Hearing Loss in U.S. Adolescents” (JAMA, Aug. 18, 2010), researchers showed that teen hearing loss overall jumped 31% from 1988– 1994 to 2005–2006, and for mild and worse cases, spiked 77% over the same period (see p. 4 sidebar for definitions of these categories and a research summary). The study showed one in five U.S. adolescents 12 to 19 years old—approximately 6.5 million teens—had hearing loss in 2005–2006. In this multipart series, upcoming articles will feature the views of audiologists on the implications of this research, strategies to prevent further erosion of hearing health, and resources to help combat the problem. “We’re on the edge of an epidemic, and we want to do everything we can to stop it,” said Roland D. Eavey, one of the four authors and director of the Bill Wilkerson Center and chair of the Department of Otolaryngology at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in Nashville. See Teens page 4 http://www.asha.org

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of The ASHA Leader - September 21, 2010

The ASHA Leader - September 21, 2010
Contents
Teens at Risk: "We're on the Edge of an Epidemic"
Bottom Line
Audiology
New Fluency, Cognition Diagnosis Codes
Schools 2010: Learning and Leadership in Las Vegas
RTI Progress-Monitoring Tools
Classroom Acoustics: What Possibly Could Be New?
Schools Practice: New Research and Online Resources
From the President
Schools Survey Caseload Data
Internet
Identification and Treatment of Landau-Kleffner Syndrome
Buyers Guide
Classifieds
First Person on the Last Page

The ASHA Leader - September 21, 2010