09: Audiology Pivots Away

Audiology and SLP share a common history, but they did not share the same future. This episode traces the critical divorce of the 1980s, starting with a 1987 convention session in New Orleans that changed everything. We look at how audiologists identified the "Competency vs. Certification" trap and decided to rebuild their professional infrastructure from the ground up.The New Orleans spark: How a minority group within ASHA realized they would never achieve autonomy inside the existing majority.Competence vs. revenue: Why audiology had to separate from a "certification-first" model to create the AuD.The 2020 mirror: How the same "bursting seams" found in audiology 30 years ago are now documented facts in the SLP master's degree.This is a story about system literacy in action.Contact Megan: therapyinsights.com/insideslpPACT Survey: pactsurvey.comSources:Special thank you to Dr. Ian Windmill (former President and Fellow of the American Academy of Audiology, former Professor and Director of the Division of Communication Science at the University of Mississippi Medical Center, and former partner in University Surgical Associates) for being a primary source for this podcast series.The Crabby Audiologist Column (published in Hearing Health and Technology Matters)The Crabby Audiologist - Who's Teaching Who, and When?  — October 14, 2014Back to the Beginning - Some History and a Mystery — October 29, 2014Back to the Future of Audiology - Part 2 - The Tumultuous 70's — December 3, 2014Back to the Future - The Contentious 80's — December 31, 2014The 90's Onward:  Fighting the Inevitable, the Mountain Moved and Promises Not Yet Kept — Jan. 21, 2015The Millenium - Crabby Audiologists Learning the Alphabet — February 10 2015With Friends Like These:  A Strange Saga of "Teamwork" — February 24, 2015With Friends Like These:  Continued — March 10, 2015Making a List - Checking It Twice:  Someone's Been Very Naughty — March 31, 2015Commoditization: New/Old Kid on the Block — April 21, 2015Got Soul?  Who Are We — May 5, 2015Our Place In the Sun: Value Added Audiology — May 19, 2015How's the Water or What Sea Are We Swimming In — June 2, 2015One Plus One Equals the Wrong Two - New Math Needed — June 23,2015