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April/June 2022 - Volume 42 - Issue 2


  • Sarah E. Wallace, PhD, CCC-SLP
    Gary A. Troia, PhD, CCC-SLP
  • 0271-8294
  • 1550-3259
  • 4 issues / year
  • 1.484

    5-Year Impact Factor: 1.796

Dear readers,

In this issue of Topics in Language Disorders, guest issue editor Sue Grogan-Johnson asked authors to present work that discusses uses of telepractice for addressing the communication and language learning needs of children by SLPs. In the first article, Lowman and her colleagues provide a set of telepractice competencies to guide graduate programs in the preparation of SLPs. In the second article, Kester offers a clinical tutorial to guide SLPs in conducting speech and language evaluations remotely. Bolden and Grogan-Johnson describe in the following article a framework for language intervention by school-based SLPs in a telepractice context. In the fourth article, Krok and colleagues present research on a structured language elicitation protocol, the Sentence Diversity Priming Task, to assess sentence diversity in toddlers via video chat platforms. Finally, Lundblom and her colleagues present the School Telepractice Assessment, which comprises aspirational questions to guide school-based SLPs, school administrators, and contracted service providers in their planning for and evaluation of telepractice service delivery in schools. The authors in this issue offer practical guidance and important considerations for clinicians who use or are considering using telepractice, and we trust our readers will find the information to be valuable. ​

Gary A. Troia, Ph.D., Co-Editor​     
Sarah E. Wallace, Ph.D., Co-Editor

ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF TLD REVIEWERS

We also draw your attention to the list of reviewers who have contributed reviews for TLD in recent years. TLD depends on scholars who accept invitations to conduct blind peer reviews of the submitted and contributed articles as a means of maintaining its high quality as a peer-reviewed journal. We publish reviewers' names periodically as a form of appreciation, but in a manner that individual reviewers cannot be connected to individual articles.

​CHANGES IN CONTINUING EDUCATION PROCEDURES—AND SPECIAL RATE FOR SUBSCRIBERS
As a reminder, we have recently rolled out changes in how TLD continuing education tests may be taken. Tests for individual articles now may be completed online via http://alliedhealth.ceconnection.com/browse/professions. At this website, readers can find all Wolters Kluwer CE activities available for speech-language pathologists. Starting with Vol. 36 (Nos. 3 and 4), all articles in each issue of TLD are available individually for CEU credit online. TLD subscribers receive a discounted price for all CE, both in print and online. As before, an annual ASHA CE Registry fee is required to register ASHA CEUs. ASHA CE Registry fees are paid by the participant directly to the ASHA National Office. 
[Note: The ASHA CE Registry fee allows registration to an unlimited number of ASHA CEUs for a calendar year. Contact the ASHA staff at 800-498-2071 ext. 4219 for CE Registry fee subscription information.]

Caregivers of Individuals with Acquired Language Disorders ​

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