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Another Great 2006 ASHA Schools Conference!

Having returned from Phoenix, AZ early last week, I'm still thinking about all the wonderful sessions and events that took place during the 2006 ASHA Schools Conference. From general school-based practice issues to vocabulary, caseload/workload, Response to Intervention (RtI), and much more, each attendee had numerous session options and great conversation opportunities! Jan McEver, our 2006 Schools Scholarship winner, will be writing next month with a few of her thoughts and reactions to her first Schools Conference. If you're reading this and you had the opportunity to attend as well, please consider posting your new learning and great ideas on our SLP Discussion Center to stimluate ongoing, post-conference conversation.

Also, our National Speech/Language Advisory Board met the day before the Schools Conference and once again provided brilliant thoughts, creative ideas, and wisdom to six Pearson Education business units who were represented at the Board meeting. The day's agenda was comprised of briefings from the Board to Pearson and vice versa, brainstorming, wishing and dreaming, and as always, discussion of the current trends of our day and what we might do together to help the professions serve the need of our clients more aptly. Additionally, feel free to let us know at any time any of your own thoughts about how we can better collaborate with you now and into the future.

In service,
Tina Eichstadt, MS CCC-SLP
Product Manager, Speech and Language
Pearson