Readability of Individuals With Disabilities Education Act Part B Procedural Safeguards Notices Written in Spanish.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to analyze the readability of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) Part B procedural safeguard notices written in Spanish, as distributed by each of the 50 states in the United States and the District of Columbia. Results were compared with the 6th-8th grade document readability guideline recommended by experts in health communication.

Method: A commercially available readability software program was used to assess document readability using three readability indices: the Gilliam-Peña-Mountain Graph, SOL, and the Fry Readability Adaptation for Spanish Evaluation.

Readability of Cochlear Implant Brochures: A Potential Factor in Parent Decision Making.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to examine the ease of reading cochlear implant (CI) brochures provided to parents and caregivers who are making informed decisions about the management of their child's hearing loss.

Method: CI brochures from three Food and Drug Administration-approved CI manufacturers were examined: Advanced Bionics, Cochlear Americas, and MED-EL. Reading grade levels and ease of reading were analyzed using a commercially available computer software program, applying six readability formulas commonly used to examine hearing-related patient education materials (PEMs).

Racial and Insurance Inequalities in Access to Early Pediatric Cochlear Implantation.

Objective: To evaluate the association between race/ethnicity and insurance status on the access to early cochlear implantation.

Study Design: Population-based retrospective analysis of pediatric cochlear implantation procedures.

Setting: State Ambulatory Surgery and Services Databases of Florida from 2005 to 2017.

Intensive treatment of speech disorders in robin sequence: a case report.

Purpose: To describe the speech of a patient with Pierre Robin Sequence (PRS) and severe speech disorders before and after participating in an Intensive Speech Therapy Program (ISTP).

Methods: The ISTP consisted of two daily sessions of therapy over a 36-week period, resulting in a total of 360 therapy sessions. The sessions included the phases of establishment, generalization, and maintenance.

The critical shortage of speech-language pathologists in the public school setting: features of the work environment that affect recruitment and retention.

Purpose: The primary focus of this study was to elicit the perspectives of speech-language pathologists (SLPs) regarding features of the work environment that contribute to and/or hinder recruitment and retention in the public school setting.

Method: A questionnaire was distributed to SLPs employed in 10 school districts in Central Florida representing small, medium, and large school districts. The primary goal of the questionnaire was to elicit the perspectives of school-based SLPs regarding (a) factors in the work environment that contribute to retention, (b) factors in the work environment that hinder retention, and (c) issues that may contribute to the recruitment and retention of SLPs in the school setting.

Meeting the Critical Shortage of Speech-Language Pathologists to Serve the Public Schools-Collaborative Rewards.

This article presents a collaborative approach to providing graduate education to speech-language pathologists who are employed in public school districts. A partnership called the Central Florida Speech-Language Consortium was established among the University of Central Florida, 10 Central Florida school districts, and community agencies to address the issue of the critical shortage of speech-language pathologists in the public schools. The consortium program provided bachelor-level speech-language pathologists in the public schools the opportunity to obtain a master's degree while they continued to work in the schools.