2012 Editorial Calendar

Issue Date Editorial Focus Features Professionals are interested or extremely interested in reading about…*
January 17 ANNUAL AUTISM ISSUE
  • Early intervention with toddlers
  • Helping children with autism interact with peers
  • DSM 5 and CLDs
  • School-based hearing screening
 73% of Leader readers are interested or extremely interested in reading about autism.
February 14 STUTTERING & DISFLUENCY
  • Stressor- versus articulation-focused treatments
  • Disfluency across gender & culture
  51% of Leader readers are interested or extremely interested in reading about fluency/stuttering.
March 13 ISSUES IN AUDIOLOGY
  • Auditory processing versus language processing
  • Auditory processing disorder in youth and old age
  • Unbundling hearing and hearing aid services – point/counterpoint
 26% of Leader readers are interested or extremely interested in reading aboutamplification.37% of Leader readers are interested or extremely interested in reading about cochlear implants.
April 3 SPRING SCHOOLS ISSUE
  • SLP service delivery and the Common Core Standards
  • School-Based SLPs with hearing-impaired kids on caseload
  • Working with contract audiologists, daily sound checks, troubleshooting FM systems, etc
  • Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo (BPPV).
 64% of Leader readers are interested or extremely interested in reading about school-related issues.
April 24 SWALLOWING/DYSPHAGIA
  • Teledynamic eval of oropharyngeal swallowing
  • Frazier Free Water Protocol in clinical settings
  • Feeding issue in end of life care for chronically ill kids
  • ASSR (Auditory Steady State Response);
 48% of Leader readers are interested or extremely interested in reading about dysphagia.
May 15 THE STATE OF THE
PROFESSIONS TODAY

JOBS REPORT
  • The state of the professions today
  • SLP-friendliest states?
  • Are you earning what you should?
  • How to negotiate a higher salary?
  • What the ASHA membership looks like.
  • Motivated by their own disabilities
  • What causes stuttering? It’s complicated.
 55% of readers indicate the that ASHA Leader is very important or important in their job search.
June 5 APHASIA
  •  The bilingual brain: implications for bilingual aphasia reahb
  • The real Deal on MIT and aphasia
  • A Model of Preventtion for Patients with ALS
  47% of Leader readers are interested or extremely interested in reading about aphasia.
July 3 TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY
  • TBI rehab in the military
  • Vestibular issues and TBI
  • TBI awareness-raising in the schools
  • Concussion-management in schools
 71% of Leader readers are interested or extremely interested in reading about cognitive communication.
57% of Leader readers are interested or extremely interested in reading about traumatic brain injury.
July 31 CONVENTION PREVIEW
  • Special Section on Convention Coverage
  • Literacy in dual-language learners
  • MBA at-a-glance: how to market your products
  • Accessible, affordable hearing health care for adults with mild-to-moderate hearing loss
  
August 28 FALL SCHOOLS ISSUE
  • Schools: SLP services innovation
  • Come out of your closet—SLPs go nontraditional
  • Value-added assessment: What’s the role of SLPs?
  • RTI success stories
 64% of Leader readers are interested or extremely interested in reading about school-related issues.
September 18 GENETICS
  • Genetic determinisim
  • Genetics of stuttering
  • Genetics of fluency versus hearing loss
  • Otoprotective mechanisms
 51% of Leader readers are interested or extremely interested in reading about fluency/stuttering.
October 9 TELEPRACTICE
Special Insert:
Convention Pocket Planner
  • Telepractice—who pays for it?
  • Telepractice for TBI in the VA
  • Telesupervision
  • Audiology and telepractice
 47% of Leader readers are interested or extremely interested in reading about workforce trends.
October 30  MULTICULTURAL/INTERNATIONAL
  • Heeding pragmatic language cues in children
  • Reminiscence Therapy
  • innovative ways to infuse multicultural content in the classroom
  • Hearing research in Tanzania
 42% of Leader readers are interested or extremely interested in reading about multicultural issues.
November 20 ETHICS
Bonus Distribution: ASHA Convention
  • Top 11 ethical abuses by SLPs/audiologists
  • Medicaid fraud
  • Reporting of abuse
  
December 18 ELDERCARE
Convention Wrap Up
  • The latest hearing loss research in people with HL and dementia
  • Patient choices/rights in nursing homes
  • Progressive aphasia and other non-alzheimer’s dementias
  • Breaking through late-life hearing loss denial
 47% of Leader readers are interested or extremely interested in reading about againg and communication problems.
       
* Percentage of ASHA readers who indicate they were interested or extremely interested in reading articles on these topics. ASHA Readership Survey, Stratton Publishing andResearch, 2008 & 2010