Jaumeiko
Coleman,
PhD, CCC-SLP, FNAP
Director of Clinical Services
Atlanta Speech School
Jaumeiko Coleman, PhD, CCC-SLP, FNAP is the Director of Clinical Services at the Atlanta Speech School. Her responsibilities include supporting the implementation of occupational therapy, reading intervention, and speech-language-pathology clinic programs for children in kindergaten through twelfth grade. Her current position and past work in school-based settings, universities, a research unit, a continuing education accrediting unit, and as Director of School Services for the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association have included a strong interprofessional practice focus.
Presenting at the Nexus Summit:
The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) is implementing multi-year efforts to advance IPECP among its members (i.e., audiologists and speech-language pathologists), including defining what it is and how to implement it and elucidating their role on teams. The following common barriers to IPECP implementation have been noted in ASHA member perspectives: not understanding IPECP and a lack of perceived value (Lawlis et. al., 2014; O’Reilly et. al., 2017).
To address these barriers, ASHA engaged a communication consulting firm to assist with developing effective messaging (Evans…