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American
Speech-Language-Hearing Association’s Curriculum Guide to Prevention of Communication
Disorders: A recent ASHA activity to increase membership involvement as providers of
prevention related services is the development of the Prevention Curriculum Guide for
Audiologists and Speech-Language Pathologists. The Guide is a result of a
collaborative effort between the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association and the
Communication Disorders Prevention and Epidemiology Study Group (CDPESG). Primary Authors
of the Guide are: Stacy Antoniadis, Bobbie Lubker, and Michael Marge. Contributing
Authors of the Guide are: Karen Beverly-Ducker, Kathryn Darling, Catherine Clarke,
Gail Donahue, Michelle Ferketic, Pauline Flynn, Betty Horowitz, Jeri Logemann, Rosemary
Lubinski,, Susan Karr, Hilda Ayola Manolson, Frankie Michaelson, Diane Paul-Brown, Gail
Rosenberg, Theresa Schulz, Robet Shprintzen, Shirley Sparks, Woody Starkweather, Maureen
Thompson, Evelyn Williams, Mark Ylvisaker, David Yoder, and Louise Zingeser. This guide
provides training modules on prevention principles and practices of speech-language
pathologists and audiologists lives and can also function as a source book for
establishing a prevention program in your community. The guide covers the foundations of
prevention, planning and implementing prevention across the life span, and designing
prevention programs. |