Interprofessional Collaboration: A Guide for What's Working to Support Coordination of Care

This third issue of volume 45 of Seminars in Speech and Language (SSL) includes both a topical forum and articles received through open submission. We continue to receive ongoing open submission articles that are research articles, review articles, and clinical seminars. We encourage authors to consult the author guidelines for SSL to see if they have a contribution that meets the mission and scope of the journal and fits one of these article types.

The topical forum included in this issue is titled, “Interprofessional Collaboration: A Guide for What's Working to Support Coordination of Care,” and has been guest edited by Teresa Cardon, Ph.D., who holds degrees in the fields of speech language pathology and applied behavior analysis. Dr. Cardon has curated a forum of three articles on this topic and provides a rationale and preview of the studies in the forum foreword included in this issue.

In addition to the forum, this issue includes three articles that were open submissions and have been accepted following peer review but are unrelated to the topical forum. The first article is an adult-focused research article titled, “Factors Affecting Performance on a Screening Tool in Persons with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS).” In this research article, the authors examined the relationship between the performance of the ALS–cognitive behavioral screen and various demographic parameters, including time post–ALS diagnosis and severity of symptoms. The authors highlight the need for conducting cognitive screenings for all persons with ALS due to the high risk of developing cognitive impairments.

The second article is a pediatric-focused research article titled, “Learning about Literacy: Speech-Language Pathologists Pre-Service and In-Service Training Experiences in the United States.” In this article, Julia Yi and Karen Erickson report the findings of a nationwide survey of 444 practicing speech language pathologists about their experience learning about literacy. The survey elucidates differences in how literacy has been addressed as part of pre-service graduate education and during in-service training.

The third article is also a pediatric-focused research article titled, “A First Estimate of the Prevalence of Developmental Language Disorder in Mexico: A Retrospective Study” by Alejandra Auza, Maria Kapantzoglou, Chiharu Murata, and Ignacio Mendez-Gomez Humaran. This article is the first to provide an estimate of the prevalence of developmental language disorders in a sample of children from Mexico using retrospective approaches. The key findings of this study indicate that the estimated prevalence of developmental language disorder in the sample is slightly higher than estimates observed in monolingual English-speaking children from the United States and England. The findings of the study are contextualized in relation to age, gender, and prior estimates of communication disorders reported in previous studies. The article provides important future directions for further understanding the prevalence of developmental language disorders in monolingual Spanish-speaking children in Mexico.

We continue to be impressed with the variety and caliber of articles submitted for considered publication in SSL. We are thrilled to share the invited forum with you in this issue. Happy reading!

Publication History

Article published online:
01 July 2024