Welcome to WSHLA!
The Westchester Speech Hearing Language Association (WSHLA), is the regional association for speech-language pathologists and audiologists who live or work in New York's lower Hudson Valley including Westchester, Rockland, and Putnam counties.
WSHLA strives to promote the highest professional standards in its members as are reflected in the licensure requirements of New York State Department of Education, and certification requirements of the American Speech Language Hearing Association (ASHA). WSHLA therefore offers varied continuing education programs for development of skills and knowledge on evidence-based practice in the areas of typical and atypical speech, language, cognition, feeding, and swallowing, as well as on local and national legislation affecting individuals with disabilities.
In addition, WSHLA serves as a resource for the community, providing information to parents and caregivers of people with disabilities. Those seeking professional services may use our website to search our member database for speech-language pathologists and audiologists. WSHLA can offer speakers to various groups.
WHAT’S APP-ENING?
"What's App-ening?" by Debbie Chassen, SLP and WSHLA member
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Membership Dues
DUES FOR 2012 DEADLINE IS JANUARY 31, 2012
A $10 late fee will be in effect for all dues payments received on or after February 1, 2012
2012 Member's Only Breakfast, 0.3 CEUs with DR. NANCY ENG
WSHLA Presents: Nancy Eng, PHD, CCC-SLP
Bi-Lingual Children: Cross Script Issues in Reading Development and Dyslexia 0.3 CEUS
With increasing numbers of bilingual children in our school systems now, the task of assessing literacy skills in both languages challenge the SLP to consider linguistic and cognitive variables that contribute to learning to reading in two scripts. We begin by asking broad questions about whether learning to read is script-specific or whether there are universal reading processes regardless of script before moving to more local questions about evaluation of reading processes in biscriptal readers.
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Attention Parents
Listen To Your Buds - Hearing health for kids
http://www.listentoyourbuds.org/
To raise awareness about hearing health, the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) developed the award-winning “Listen To Your Buds” campaign.
The campaign educates the very young about practicing safe listening habits such as turning down the volume and taking listening breaks when they use personal audio technology so they can avoid the devastating, lifelong effects that can accompany hearing loss. Recent research both in the United States and abroad indicates that misuse of the technology has the potential to cause noise-induced hearing loss.