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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 Language Learning and Education

In continuous publication since 1991, Perspectives on Language Learning and Education (formerly known as the Division 1, Language Learning and Education Newsletter) is published three times annually (March, July and October) by the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA). This Special Interest Division and its publication provide information on and promote activities related to: (1) the linguistic knowledge and communicative interaction of infants, children, and youth from diverse cultures; (2) how knowledge, interactions, and culture affect language learning and literacy; (3) the ways in which contexts, such as school events, influence children's communication; and (4) assessment and intervention approaches for people with developmental disabilities or speech-language-hearing disorders.

Editor (2008-2010)

Donna M. Boudreau, PhD, CCC-SLP
Assistant Professor
Portland State University
Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences
Portland, OR

Continuing Education Administrator (2007-2009)

Betty Sutton
Jackson State University, Jackson, MS

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: Lynne E. Hewitt, Bowling Green State University, Department of Communication Disorders
Associate Coordinator: Judith M. Vander Woude, Calvin College, CAS Department
LaVae Hoffman, University of Virginia
Lisa Hammett Price, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Betty Sutton, Jackson State University

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