Monday, May 7, 2012

Keeping Up with ASHA Publications

I was quite excited when skimming an email I received recently about the new issue of the Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research. There were two new research articles on Apraxia. Upon closer examination I realized they were both about Acquired Apraxia of Speech (in adults who had normal speech before a precipitating event like a stroke) rather than about Developmental Apraxia of Speech and I was less excited.

I was reflecting on how nice it was to automatically receive the Table of Contents of each new issue along with links to each article. Anyone can go to the ASHA Journals email alerts page and sign up with their email address to automatically receive the new Table of Contents for each new issue of the four journals published by ASHA. When you click on the link for an interesting article, you will be taken to a page with a description of the article. ASHA members can sign in and read the full text of any of the articles.

Signing up for the email alerts is a great way to keep up with the ASHA journal publications.

4 comments:

  1. Do you have to be a paying member to get access to full articles?

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    1. As far as I know you have to be a paid ASHA member to access the articles. It's one of the membership benefits. If you're not an ASHA member, it is possible that you can pay a fee to read an article that particularly interests you. You should also be able to get copies at any university library. You might also be able to persuade your child's SLP to look it up for you. You can read the abstract for free though.

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  2. I had exactly the same reaction about the apraxia articles!

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    1. Most research is interesting on an academic level, but the ones that are most exciting are the ones you can really use and apply to your own work. Good to hear from you cmf-slp!

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