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POSTMASTER: DELIVER ON OR BEFORE AUGUST 11 August 11, 2009 • Vol. 14 No. 10 See page 57 August 11, 2009 inside 3 4 5 Four Members Elected to Board of Directors Readers Respond School design with acoustics in mind; newborn hearing screening loss to follow-up; protein patches up noise-induced damage; audiogram explanation contest. 7 8 Congress Begins Health Care Reform Debate Medicare Private Practice Poses Concerns for Some SLPs Custom Fit Your Marketing Personal Music Players: Are We Measuring From the President: Convention Preview 10 14 19 23 41 47 48 57 51 59 Sound Levels Correctly? What is the value of ASHA? Program Highlights for the ASHA Convention and tools to plan your schedule. 2010 Dues Change Ethics in Private Practice Missouri SLPs Win on School Retirement Issue A Deluge of Human Kindness Classiﬁeds First Person on the Last Page: Felicia Sison Conlan New Orleans Rebuilds the “Eternal Jewel” by Kellie Rowden-Racette uring the lazy, hazy summer months of 2005, New Orleans residents thought they had seen it all. The city—eccentric, charming, and beloved by millions— had lived under the threat of hurricanes for so long that the warnings sounded more like folk tales rather than reality. Yet on Aug. 28, Hurricane Katrina dashed that false sense of security by slamming into the southern coast of the United States, causing more than 1,800 people to lose their lives and more than $81 billion in damage. Among those affected were thousands of ASHA members along the Gulf Coast communities in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama. Some fled, some stayed, some left for good, others returned to rebuild their lives. The ASHA Leader ran a story in the ASHA members who witnessed the devastation of Hurricane Katrina share their memories and look forward to the upcoming ASHA convention in the revitalized Big Easy. www.asha.org ASHA Convention Preview 2 0 0 9 A special convention preview begins on p. 23: special events, program highlights, restaurants, opening session speaker, online planner, and more. Sept. 27, 2005 issue, “In Katrina’s Wake,” that highlighted the experiences of several ASHA members only one month after Katrina hit. Now, four years later as ASHA prepares to hold its first post-Katrina convention in New Orleans in November, The Leader revisits three of those members. Here are their stories. Tiffany Hebert Spinos, MCD, CCC-SLP Senior speech-language pathologist and feeding therapist, Texas Children’s Hospital, Houston Even though Tiffany Spinos (then Tiffany Hebert) evacuated early from New Orleans the weekend before Hurricane Katrina hit, she didn’t comprehend the magnitude of the storm she was escaping until days later. An SLP at Children’s Hospital in New Orleans and a Big Easy native, she remembers not understanding that this See Katrina page 42 http://www.asha.org

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of The ASHA Leader - August 11, 2009

The ASHA Leader - August 11, 2009
Contents
Four Members Elected to Board of Directors
Readers Respond
Audiology
Congress Begins Health Care Reform Debate
Medicare Private Practice Poses Concerns for Some SLPs
Custom Fit Your Marketing
Personal Music Players
From the President
Convention Preview
2010 Dues Change
Ethics in Private Practice
Missouri SLPs Win on School Retirement Issue
Classifieds
A Deluge of Human Kindness
First Person on the Last Page

The ASHA Leader - August 11, 2009