Speech, Language, Hearing Sciences at MSU Denver

10/12/2026

An audiologist lays out essential steps and considerations for setting up or expanding a practice to offer vestibular services. 👂🥽🙌
"With such a need, why aren’t more audiologists pursuing the subspecialty of vestibular assessment? In my experience, audiologists cite the high cost of equipment, lack of expertise, and concerns over referral sources as barriers. This is sometimes accompanied by misinformation about reimbursement. When considering payment of Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) codes included in your contract, including the time requirements, you will see that the return on investment is quite good." -Gans. To read the article, click the link in bio or visit: https://buff.ly/fLFszWX

An audiologist outlines key steps and considerations for building or expanding a practice to include vestibular services.

10/09/2026

💻 Register for the Virtual Grad School Fair on Wednesday, October 14, 4–7 PM Mountain Time / 6–9 PM Eastern Time. 📆 ✨ Come chat with us about our Master's in Speech-Language Pathology. 🗣️🙌 We're accepting applications for Summer 2027 (deadline is January 2027). Student registration is free! For more details, click the link in our bio or visit: https://buff.ly/NbnnTUE

Grad School Fair/PhD Center The GSF/PhD Center provides the opportunity for students and academic faculty to learn about one another in an informal atmosphere! Representatives from institutions across the nation will be on hand to answer your questions. Come chat about your graduate and/or PhD prog...

10/08/2026

An SLP’s approach to supporting athletes recovering from traumatic brain injury was reshaped by interprofessional collaboration and listening to athletes’ firsthand accounts of dizziness and brain fog. 🤔🏈🙋🧠
"During my doctoral program, I studied other professionals’ and college football players’ understanding of the SLP’s role in concussion care. This work revealed limited understanding of concussion’s long-term cognitive-communication effects and the role of SLPs in recovery. Coaches and athletes alike demonstrated attitudes that could impede recovery, including underreporting symptoms, returning to play too soon, and undervaluing academic accommodations and rehabilitation services. My research shed light on how interprofessional collaboration and concussion management improve when professionals understand one another’s expertise and communicate through a shared framework." -Pope. To read the article, click the link in our bio or visit: https://buff.ly/YMW6pIz

Interprofessional collaboration and learning from clients’ own experiences with dizziness and brain fog brought a new lens to an SLP’s support of athletes with traumatic brain injuries.

10/07/2026

A school-based SLP created a handy chart to organize assessment tools and make it easier to distinguish language disorders from language differences. 📝🗣️🙌
"If you’ve ever finished an evaluation and felt the standardized score wasn’t telling the whole story, try the table. However you use it—pasted into a report, shared in a meeting, handed to a team—the point is the same. The case manager who said, 'This makes the decision really clear,' wasn’t responding to my persuasion; she was responding to the visual. The table did the convincing. I just showed the data." -Callwood. To read the full article, click the link in our bio or visit: https://buff.ly/8NPxY3y

A simple chart helps organize a school-based SLP’s assessment tools to better demonstrate language disorders versus differences. 

10/05/2026

The Master of Science in Speech-Language Pathology program at MSU Denver is seeking a clinical administrator to assist with operations of the Bookhardt Family Speech-Language Clinic!

Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in public health, healthcare administration, speech-language hearing sciences, or related healthcare field or the equivalent combination of education and experience (please note that two years of experience equals one year of higher education)
- Spanish and English language proficiency (verbal and written)
- Familiarity with use of electronic medical records and HIPAA
- Experience working with clients or patients and staff from diverse socio-economic, ethnic, and cultural backgrounds, ability to work as part of a team

Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with medical billing
- HIPAA certified
- Familiarity with speech-language pathology scope of practice
- Previous experience with clinical or medical office administration
- SLPA certification or experience

Schedule Information:
- Part-time, 20 hours per week
- Exempt
- Hours: Monday (8am-5pm), Wednesday (8am-5pm), Friday (8am-2pm)
- Evenings and Weekend Work: Rarely
- Schedule: There is flexibility with the work schedule and hours with 2 days in person, on campus and some remote work possible
- Travel: None

For more information and to apply visit this link or go to the link in our bio: https://buff.ly/1rhL4Ku

10/02/2026

The SLP-A Application is due TODAY by 11:59 p.m.! Visit https://buff.ly/SuwUAwQ to learn more about the application requirements, process, and how to apply 💻️✍️📚️

10/01/2026

The American Heart Association (AHA) released the updated guideline for Adult Stroke Rehabilitation and Recovery, replacing the 2016 version. The new guideline assigns recommendations for screening, assessment, and treatment of post-stroke communication, cognition, and swallowing. 🫀✨🗣️🙌
"Overall, the updated AHA guideline highlights the integral role of the SLP on the interprofessional stroke rehabilitation team. It can serve as a guide for SLPs to identify optimal screening, assessment, and treatment methods, and can be used as a tool for demonstrating the value and skills of SLPs in supporting stroke survivors. " -Morrell. To read the article, click the link in bio or visit: https://buff.ly/0mFKGDb

A recently updated Guideline for Adult Stroke Rehabilitation and Recovery, released by the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association, assigns levels of recommendations for screening, assessment, and treatment of communication, cognition, and swallowing after stroke.  

09/30/2026

A South Carolina speech‑language pathologist proposed a plan showing how balancing SLP duties with coaching softball can strengthen the school community, and she’s been seeing benefits for five years. 🗣️🙌🥎✨
"Matsumoto says her work as an SLP and a coach both involve finding different ways to help students learn and apply skills. When she’s coaching, for example, she finds her CSD training enhances goal-setting and positive feedback. Graduate school taught her progress isn’t always linear, and everyone learns differently. So, even though her softball players work together as a team, Matsumoto sets individual player goals to help reach shared objectives. With her speech-language students, she draws on her athletic and coaching experiences to celebrate each small win—a motivation booster." -Hutchins. To read the article, click the link in our bio or visit: https://buff.ly/bkguBT7

Finding ways to do things she was told “can’t be done” provides the foundation for SLP Amanda Matsumoto in combining her passion for speech-language pathology with coaching softball.  

09/29/2026

At the University of South Alabama, an audiologist and a physical therapist coordinate care for vestibular and balance patients in campus clinics using diagnostics to guide targeted rehabilitation from screening to hands-on treatment. 👩‍⚕️👍⚖️👂
"When we work together as a cohesive healthcare team in this fashion, rather than as isolated practitioners, it changes the entire patient experience. Audiologists can assist with providing the primary identification, and PTs can provide functional rehabilitation to restore confidence and safety. PTs may also refer patients to audiology for vestibular assessment if their current rehabilitation exercises aren’t working. In our clinic, this serves as a powerful partnership that keeps our patients active, independent, and, importantly, safe from falls." -Redding, Andrews. To read the article, click the link in our bio or visit: https://buff.ly/TDluVWl

ASHA

09/28/2026

September is Deaf Awareness Month, a time to recognize and support people who are deaf or hard of hearing. 🧏✨🦻🙌 As future clinicians, engaging with the community lets us hear their stories and challenges and become more compassionate practitioners.
"Getting involved with the Deaf and Hard of Hearing community starts simply by taking the initiative to connect. Organizations like Hands & Voices welcome students warmly, recognizing that today’s students are tomorrow’s clinical providers. Whether you volunteer, attend local events, or reach out directly to community leaders, stepping beyond the clinic builds crucial empathy and grounding." -Truong. To read the full article, click the link in our bio, or visit: https://buff.ly/krjnXDF

September is Deaf Awareness Month—a time to recognize, advocate for, support, and build community alongside individuals who are deaf and hard of hearing as well as those who are impacted by hearing loss. Community engagement allows us as future clinicians to bond and connect with these individuals...