Understanding Neurogenic Communication Disorders in a Collaborative Context: A Team-Based Interprofessional Education Approach for Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology Students

Purpose Hearing loss is underidentified and undertreated in individuals with neurogenic communication disorders. Interprofessional collaborative practice between audiologists and speech-language pathologists is necessary to provide optimal health outcomes in patients with neurogenic communication disorders, such as dementia and aphasia. Although audiologists reported sizeable patient caseloads involving neurogenic conditions on a recent survey, their collaboration with speech-language pathologists to determine the best hearing/vestibular outcomes was limited (Davis, Choi, Estis, u0026 Gordon-Hickey, 2015). A team-based interprofessional education course was designed and implemented at the University of South Alabama to prepare graduate speech-language pathology and audiology students for interprofessional collaborative practice with this population. The framework presented in this article utilizes team-based interprofessional education to effectively engage speech-language pathology and audiology students in ...