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, 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 School-Based Issues

In continuous publication since 1997, Perspectives on School-Based Issues (formerly known as the Division 16, School-Based Issues Newsletter) is published four times annually (March, June, October, and December) by the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA). The mission of this division is to provide leadership and advocacy through a forum for all speech-language pathologists and audiologists with interests in school-based issues, including clinicians and researchers from schools, universities, and all other settings and to promote the highest quality services within schools by addressing clinical, educational, administrative and legislative/regulatory concerns at local, state, and federal levels.

Editor

SallyAnn Giess

Associate Editor

Kimberley Ennis

Continuing Education Administrator

Lisa A. Keane

Editorial Production Team

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

Advertising Sales

Pamela J. Leppin
pleppin{at}asha.org

2009 Steering Committee

Division Coordinator:Frances K. Block, Northwestern University
Associate Coordinator: Ellen R. Estomin, Pittsburgh Public Schools
Ruth Callahan
Christine L. Freiberg
Lisa A. Keane, Broward County Public Schools

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

Charlette M Green
Kassandra F. Kleymann
Tiffany C Markey
Lisa C. O'Connor
Ellen Reuler
Laura Young-Campbell