Assistant Professor of Speech-Language Pathology | qualitative research | social participation | communication access | scholarship of teaching and learning #SoTL | communication in #dementia care | #cog-comm | #inclusion | #boardgames, books, & brewing
Karen Whisenhunt Saar (she/her)
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Lamar University is seeking a chair of Speech and Hearing Sciences.
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Family caregivers now provide $1 trillion worth of care annually, AARP finds
“Participants … thought that a definition of communicative participation should include interaction for joy, where closeness rather than meaning is shared, and reference to play and education as key communicative participation situations.”
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Lamar University is hiring a department chair for Speech & Hearing Sciences. Applications now open. Come work with me!
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Our latest 🔓open access article - We analyzed #instagram posts tagged w/ #autisticcommunication & #actuallyautistic to explore how #autistic adults:
▶️describe communication experiences
▶️discuss communication preferences
▶️define effective communication
#qualitative #SLPeeps doi.org/10.1016/j.ri...
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Exploring How Social Communication Ability Is Affected by Disability, Context and Experience for Adolescents Transitioning to Adulthood
#BskySpeechies #SLP #SLT #pragmatics #socialcommunicstion #languagedevelopment #adolescents #DevLangDis
Study explores role of interdisciplinary collaboration between audiologists & psychologists in managing hearing loss & cognitive decline as interconnected conditions. This multidisciplinary approach ensures comprehensive patient-centered care. https://on.asha.org/4u40JCn
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Karen Whisenhunt Saar (she/her)
Everyone deserves chances to choose, communicate, and lead their lives. SLPs play a key role in growing self‑determination for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
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This study in Perspectives suggests that visual schedules are a practical, low-effort tool that can enhance patient–provider communication. Authors found that untrained volunteers were able to use these tools and found them helpful https://pubs.asha.org/doi/10.1044/2026_PERSP-25-00171 #AuDPeeps
Caring for a loved one with aphasia can result in psychosocial challenges which are often understudied. Learn how to the support of friends can help weaken the link between caregiver burden and depressive symptoms https://pubs.asha.org/doi/10.1044/2025_AJSLP-25-00367 #SLPeeps
Purpose: Individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDDs) experience numerous barriers to developing self-determination skills...
Job Title:
Professor
Department:
College of Nursing and Health Professions
Job Category:
Faculty
FLSA Status:
Exempt
Pos Class (Job Code)
FA910
Pay Grade:
FA
Emp Class Desc:
Professional ...
New open access paper for the reading pile: Defining Communicative Participation for Children and Young People: Views of Young People, Parents, and Speech and Language Therapists doi.org/10.1111/1460... #DevLangDis #SLPeeps
Nichola Shelton
Background Effective social communication is adapted to the context, the setting and the people involved. It is less clear how measures of adolescent social communication ability reflect these aspec...
Background Communicating effectively in everyday life is a key outcome for children with speech, language and communication difficulties. However, we lack a clear way to describe children's everyday...
