{"id":11262,"date":"2023-06-19T13:43:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-19T20:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everhear.com\/?p=11262"},"modified":"2023-06-19T13:44:11","modified_gmt":"2023-06-19T20:44:11","slug":"evergreen-hearing-speech-provider-visits-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everhear.com\/evergreen-hearing-speech-provider-visits-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"Evergreen Hearing &amp; Speech Provider Visits Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/everhear.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/chris-norwood-1280x1707.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11266\" width=\"263\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/everhear.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/chris-norwood-1280x1707.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/everhear.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/chris-norwood-350x467.jpg 350w, https:\/\/everhear.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/chris-norwood-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/everhear.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/chris-norwood-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/everhear.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/chris-norwood.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 263px) 100vw, 263px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Christopher Norwood, Au.D., CCC-A, FAAA, is currently serving as the Washington State Audiology Representative for the American Speech-Language Hearing Association (ASHA) Committee of Ambassadors. Dr. Norwood had the opportunity to travel to Washington DC with ASHA for a day of advocacy on Capitol Hill. He met with the office of US Representative Pramila Jayapal and Senator Maria Cantwell to discuss ASHA\u2019s Public Policy Agenda. Issues discussed included improving access to audiological care for Medicare beneficiaries, expanding telehealth coverage for audiology and speech-language pathology services (set to expire soon under special COVID-19 initiatives) and investing in improving diversity in the audiology\/speech-pathology workforce. Learn more about ASHA Advocacy and Public Policy at <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.asha.org\/siteassets\/advocacy\/2023-asha-public-policy-agenda.pdf.\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.asha.org\/siteassets\/advocacy\/2023-asha-public-policy-agenda.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christopher Norwood, Au.D., CCC-A, FAAA, is currently serving as the Washington State Audiology Representative for the American Speech-Language Hearing Association (ASHA) Committee of Ambassadors. Dr. Norwood had the opportunity to travel to Washington DC with ASHA for a day of advocacy on Capitol Hill. He met with the office of US Representative Pramila Jayapal and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11266,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","schema":"","fname":"","lname":"","position":"","credentials":"","placeID":"","no_match":false,"name":"","company":"","review":"","address":"","city":"","state":"","zip":"","lat":"","lng":"","phone1":"","phone2":"","fax":"","mon1":"","mon2":"","tue1":"","tue2":"","wed1":"","wed2":"","thu1":"","thu2":"","fri1":"","fri2":"","sat1":"","sat2":"","sun1":"","sun2":"","hours-note":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everhear.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11262"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everhear.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everhear.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everhear.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everhear.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11262"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/everhear.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11271,"href":"https:\/\/everhear.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11262\/revisions\/11271"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everhear.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everhear.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everhear.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everhear.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}