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Keri Vandongen, R.SLP, S-LP(C)
During this year’s Speech and Hearing Month, I asked myself a key question: Am I getting inside the minds of parents whose children I could help? Speech and Hearing Month is about raising awareness of communication health and the professions of speech-language pathology and audiology… Read more.
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Susan Rafaat, R.SLP, S-LP(C)
The Pan-Canadian Alliance (PCA) Wait Time Benchmarks Project began in 2008 and was loosely fashioned after the work of a national alliance of medical specialty societies known as the Wait Time Alliance (WTA) for Timely Access to Health Care… Read more.
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Statistics Canada’s Canadian Health Measures Survey Team
For the first time, Statistics Canada has released results on the prevalence of hearing loss in Canada. The results indicates that one in five adults in Canada has… Read more.
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Jena H. Casbon, MS, CCC-SLP
It happens to the best of us. We start our careers off eager to learn everything there is to know about our field so that we can help as many patients as families as possible. We help and we help through long hours, in stressful environments, sometimes with patients that don’t seem to be getting better, with administrators that don’t understand our field… and in the midst of our own pressures at home… Read more.
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Daralynn Swensrude
Daralynn Swensrude previously worked as an educational assistant within a rehabilitation hospital in Edmonton, Alberta. She worked within a multidisciplinary team alongside a teacher, speech-language pathologist, occupational therapist, physical therapist, neuropsychologist, nurses, a physician and others… Read more.
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Virginia Martin
In 1964, Dorothy Deakin spent three days a week traveling as far as 80 miles in her area. Her car held “sandbags and a sleeping bag and a bottle of brandy tucked inside.” She was on call at the hospital 24 hours a day and made house calls. Often because of the weather, she stayed overnight in Penticton… Read more.
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