This course explores the evaluation and training of gender-congruent voice and communication skills in individuals across the transgender continuum. Culturally sensitive terminology, client-driven goals and stimuli, treatment techniques to feminize or masculinize vocal/speech/language/nonverbal characteristics, generalization, and promotion of good vocal hygiene will be discussed.

This is Part 1 of a two-part series. This course will provide information on the impact of aging on dentition, the connection between chewing and saliva, the impact of dentures/lack of dentition on mastication, and diet selection.

This course will describe the changes in diagnostic criteria and practices from the time autism was first described by Leo Kanner in 1943 until the DSM IV (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders - Fourth Edition) criteria were published in 1994. This historical perspective will enable speech-language pathologists to gain a deeper understanding of how autism has evolved through the decades.

This course addresses the perspectives of a graduate student who has experienced simulations as part of her clinical training program. We will probe her thoughts on the strengths and limitations of this application. She will provide us with insights about how simulations can best be integrated into a graduate curriculum.

This is Part 2 of a three-part series on pragmatics and social communication. This course will discuss how social communication impacts the goal of education and explain the difference between academic performance and functional performance. Factors to consider for service provision will also be addressed. (Part 1: Course 8335, Part 3: Course 8337)

The current study investigates clinical supervision, with regard to millennial student clinician expectations, needs and anxiety related to the supervisory process. It was hypothesized that millennial student learners would have greater anxiety, greater supervision expectations and supervisory needs at the outset of their graduate training.

This text reports the results of a study examining changes in the clinical decision-making processes of speech-language pathology (SLP) students. Web-based case simulations were used to elicit and measure clinical decision-making in eight graduate students at three stages in their training.

This course will outline the cognitive symptoms of both acquired brain injury and psychological health disorders that mirror each other and/or can co-occur. In addition, there will be some brief discussion surrounding chronic traumatic encephalopathy and its symptoms, which parallel those of psychiatric disorders.

This is Part 2 of two-part series. This course will review therapeutic techniques for feeding difficulties in pediatric patients and how to add new foods to the picky eater’s diet. Patient case studies will be provided for easy application of the course content.

This Research Watch Report focuses on some of the most current research in the areas of attention and memory impairments in adults with traumatic brain injury (TBI). Three peer-reviewed articles are summarized and potential clinical applications of the evidence are discussed.