About Perspectives and Its Editors

Perspectives is the member publication for the Special Interest Divisions of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association. The Divisions began publishing newsletters for their affiliates in 1991. Those publications have expanded and evolved over the years and are now reviewed according to the criteria set forth by the Continuing Education Board of ASHA.

Further, virtually all of the Divisions are ASHA approved Continuing Education Providers and, as such, publish content on the graduate level for the professions of speech-language pathology and audiology, enabling their affiliates to earn Continuing Education credits for self-study of Perspectives.

Perspectives are focused on narrow topics of interest to professionals practicing in or conducting research related to communications sciences and disorders. Typically, Perspectives are disorder-oriented (e.g., swallowing and swallowing disorders), though some divisions focus on topics across disorders (e.g., gerontology or diversity) or that relate to pedagogy or supervision.

Each Perspectives boasts an editor with special knowledge and expertise in the focus topics of that division. Each division's content is reviewed by a Continuing Education Administrator and a standing Board of Reviewers who ensure that content meets requirements for ASHA continuing education self-studies.

About Perspectives on Audiology

In continuous publication since 1995, Perspectives on Audiology is published once annually (May) by the American Speech-Language Hearing Association. This publication was developed by the Audiology Coordinating Committee of the Special Interest Division Board of Division Coordinators for affiliates of the four Special Interest Divisions specifically devoted to audiology and balance issues.

Editor (2009-2009)

Zenobia R. Bagli, PhD
Germantown, MD

Continuing Education Administrator(2009-2011)

Sridhar Krishnamurti, PhD
Department of Communication Disorders, Auburn University
Auburn, AL

Editorial Production Team

Jean White, Associate Director for Communications, Special Interest Divisions
Agatha Tomasik, Editorial Assistant, Special Interest Divisions
ASHA National Office, Rockville, MD

Advertising Sales

Pamela J. Leppin
pleppin{at}asha.org

2009 Audiology Coordinating Committee

Chair: Sue Ann Erdman, Coordinator, Division 7, Aural Rehabilitation and Its Instrumentation

Kim Schairer, Coordinator, Division 6, Hearing and Hearing Disorders: Research and Diagnostics

Thomas M. Helfer, Coordinator, Division 8, Hearing Conservation and Occupational Audiology

Gayla F. Hutsell, Coordinator, Division 9, Hearing and Hearing Disorders in Childhood

ASHA Board of Directors Monitoring Officers

Julie B. Noel, Monitoring Vice President for Professional Practices in Speech-Language Pathology
Gwendolyn D. Wilson, Monitoring Vice President for Professional Practices in Audiology

Ex Officio

Kerry Chmielenski, Associate Director, Special Interest Divisions

2009 List of Reviewers

Sid Bacon
Kathryn Beauchaine
Sue Erdman
Julie Hanks
Martha Mundy
Donna Neff
Beth Prieve
Dave Wark