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INbOx Great Convention for Audiology Thank you! ASHA's convention planners like to receive feedback that can be incorporated into future years' events. I have been an audiologist for over 32 years. In all that time I have attended at least 10 annual (national) conventions. My primary description of all previous conventions would be "SLPs only, audiologists need not attend." However, this year's convention in Orlando, Florida, was great! Every day I was able to attend six hours or more of relevant audiology topics. If you continue on in this fashion, you will get a resurgence of audiologists coming to these conventions! Thank you for this convention. Please keep it up. James M. O'Day, Milan, New Hampshire Way to Grow Thank you for your response. We hope the January series of articles on clinical education sparks discussion and implementation of innovative ways to ease the CSD training bottleneck. Send letters to leader@asha.org (indicate "letter to the editor" in the subject line). I commend ASHA for "Way to Grow" (January 2015, on.asha.org/alo0115grow-grads), which brings to light challenges in clinical education-a topic that raises much concern year after year. I understand the reasons why so few students are accepted each year, but I also see that we need to grow academically and professionally. I recently finished my first semester as an AuD student at Pacific University in Hillsboro, Oregon. Pacific's fairly new program (my class is the third cohort) is already pushing the envelope in an attempt to radicalize AuD education. Our accelerated, three-year program offers a rigorous curriculum that is innovative and lush in unique clinical opportunities and experiences. I believe our larger classes (20-24) create a rich, diverse sense of community among the students. Our clinical directors have created meaningful, lasting connections with health care professionals around the greater Portland area to create a wide variety of clinical experiences for us. In our state-of-the-art Audiology Simulation Lab-one of just a few nationwide-we can perform full diagnostic test batteries 24/7 to increase our level of competency and confidence in clinical and academic arenas. I'm proud to be part of this new era of communication sciences and disorders education. Change and challenge, as many of us know, walk hand in hand, but current and developing medical and health care professionals must welcome and embrace change, because the future of our professions and the quality of patient care depend upon it. Bravo, Leader, on an excellent read! Joshua Huppert, Beaverton, Oregon Corrections A sidebar to a January 2015 article ("New SLP Evaluation Codes: One Year Later," on.asha.org/evaluation-codes) gave incorrect information about using the -52 modifier with the 92523 billing code (evaluation of speech sound production with evaluation of language comprehension and expression). The -52 modifier, which indicates that services provided are less than the full description of the code, should be used with 92523 only to denote language-only evaluations. In the January issue, two lines of text were omitted from the description of Richard Zraick's credentials in "Way to Grow." The article should have read: "Richard Zraick, chair of the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders at the University of Central Florida, believes strongly in using standardized patients-not just to build clinical capacity, but also to build students' skills. Zraick used standardized patients for about 15 years at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences-where he was on the faculty for 17 years before joining UCF in July 2014-to develop students' professional communication skills, diagnostic ability and interprofessional collaboration competencies." The correct version appears at on.asha.org/alo0115-grow-grads and bit.ly/leader01-15flip. 6 FEbRUARY 2015 | THE ASHA LE ADER http://on.asha.org/alo0115-grow-grads http://on.asha.org/alo0115-grow-grads http://on.asha.org/evaluation-codes http://on.asha.org/alo0115-grow-grads http://www.bit.ly/leader01-15flip

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