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New NIH Designation for People With Disabilities = More Health …

WEBOctober 5, 2023. Last month, NIH designated people with disabilities as a population with health disparities for NIH-conducted and funded research. It also released a notice of …

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ASHA Voices: Confronting Health Care Disparities

WEBOn this episode of ASHA Voices, we take on a subject that is timely, but not new. Our guests explain how the COVID-19 pandemic is drawing public attention to …

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Is Home Health Care for You

WEBAbout home care. Started in the early 1800s as philanthropic nursing care, home health care has expanded to become a bridge for patients discharged from acute …

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Patient Needs—Not Administrative Mandates—Are Critical to …

WEBPatient Needs—Not Administrative Mandates—Are Critical to Patient and Payer Outcomes. It’s well known that tailoring treatment to a patient’s specific speech, …

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Why Social Determinants of Health Matter So Much to Care

WEBThe U.S. Department of Health and Human Services lists five domains for social determinants of health: economic stability, education access and quality, health …

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Adults with Communication Disabilities Face Health Care Obstacles

WEBThe disability disparity. A growing body of literature indicates that adults with disabilities face poorer health and medical care outcomes compared to their peers …

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Simple Ways To Boost Health Care Access for People With

WEBImprove access in your community. Whether you plan to change your own model of care or simply provide more resources for your patients or anyone who calls …

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Pondering a Move to Home Health

WEBHome health care for adults is a rapidly growing industry, with the Bureau of Labor Statistics projecting 21% employment growth in the sector by 2030. Just over 5% …

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Study Maps U.S. Hearing Loss, Right Down to the County

WEBThe map portrays epidemiological estimates from the CDC-funded Sound Check study, which reveals higher hearing loss rates among men, non-Hispanic Whites, …

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Health Literacy: Research Directions for Speech-Language …

WEBHealth literacy—the “degree to which individuals have the capacity to obtain, process, and understand basic health information and the services needed to make …

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Maintenance Therapy—What's Makes Non-Rehabilitative Support …

WEBMaintenance therapy goals include preventing unnecessary, avoidable complications from a chronic condition, such as deterioration of communication skills …

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Fall Prevention: Patient-Centered Outcomes

WEBThe consequences of falls range from physical injury (e.g., fractures) to psychological distress in the form of depression, anxiety, fear of falling, and decline in …

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HIPAA: Impact on Clinical Practice The ASHA Leader Archive

WEBHIPAA: Impact on Clinical Practice. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) is a federal law that standardizes the electronic exchange of …

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Achieving Quality and Improved Outcomes Through

WEBASHA adapted the World Health Organization’s definitions of IPE and IPP to describe their application to educational and health care settings. That is, IPE occurs …

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Medicare Cuts to Home Health Coming in 2023—With More …

WEBSarah Warren. November 8, 2022. Home health agencies will see an almost 4% cut in Medicare payments in 2023, the first in what is likely a series of annual payment …

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Oral Hygiene and Dysphagia—Care and Complications

WEBAshford: Oral hygiene care for these patients is just as important as if they were orally fed. Lean them forward over a basin and let the oral secretions spill into the …

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ASHA Voices: Regional Factors Influencing Home Health Care

WEBAs more patients choose to receive health care at home, we hear stories from home health SLPs working in the city of Baltimore, the suburbs of Atlanta, and in a rural …

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The High Cost of Stuttering

WEBThe winner of the 2016 Academy Award for best short live-action film was “Stutterer,” a lovely and devastating 12-minute tour of the experience of someone whose …

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Oral Motor Principles and Techniques

WEBNonspeech oral motor exercises (NSOME) is a term created by Gregory Lof, author of the article. It has no true definition. It lumps techniques involving the orofacial complex into …

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Transcript: ASHA Voices: Regional Factors Influencing Home …

WEBRead the blog post for this episode. GRAY (Narration): This is ASHA Voices. I’m J.D. Gray. Today on the podcast, we speak with home health SLPs working in three different …

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Habilitation – What it is And Why it Matters to You

WEBContrast that with services that help a person improve skills that have been lost after a stroke, head injury, illness, or other cause. The latter is rehabilitation – …

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Incorporating Social Determinants of Health Into Screening

WEBDefining SDOH. To clarify the meaning of social determinants of health, the HHS Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion defines them as “the …

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