American Speech-Language-Hearing Association’s Curriculum Guide to Prevention of Communication Disorders: A recent ASHA activity to increase membership involvement as providers of prevention related services is the development of the Prevention Curriculum Guide for Audiologists and Speech-Language Pathologists. The Guide is a result of a collaborative effort between the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association and the Communication Disorders Prevention and Epidemiology Study Group (CDPESG). Primary Authors of the Guide are: Stacy Antoniadis, Bobbie Lubker, and Michael Marge. Contributing Authors of the Guide are: Karen Beverly-Ducker, Kathryn Darling, Catherine Clarke, Gail Donahue, Michelle Ferketic, Pauline Flynn, Betty Horowitz, Jeri Logemann, Rosemary Lubinski,, Susan Karr, Hilda Ayola Manolson, Frankie Michaelson, Diane Paul-Brown, Gail Rosenberg, Theresa Schulz, Robet Shprintzen, Shirley Sparks, Woody Starkweather, Maureen Thompson, Evelyn Williams, Mark Ylvisaker, David Yoder, and Louise Zingeser.

This guide provides training modules on prevention principles and practices of speech-language pathologists and audiologists lives and can also function as a source book for establishing a prevention program in your community. The guide covers the foundations of prevention, planning and implementing prevention across the life span, and designing prevention programs.