Cafe TSHA is an initiative of the TSHA Publications Board. Levity Lounge is a walk on the lighter side. Tips for Tx offers clever hacks to up your therapy game. Tech Bytes covers new and noteworthy technology finds. Student Swap provides student-focused ideas and inspiration. Wellness Corner emphasizes self-care for service providers. We encourage you to submit your ideas to publications@txsha.org for consideration for publication in future issues.

Wellness Corner
As speech-language pathologists and audiologists, we work hard each and every day to provide and advocate for our patients with communication disorders. The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) connects us with a variety of mental health resources to manage feelings and to deal with ongoing feelings of uncertainty.

Tech Bytes
As technology continues to develop, we learn of new means to support people with aphasia. In this study, 20 people with aphasia use a variety of text-to-speech tools, answer a variety of comprehension questions, and provide feedback on current features and future upgrades.

Student Swap
Have you heard of a vocal fry? The vocal fry voice quality is trending among young women despite studies that show that a vocal fry can negatively impact how a speaker is perceived. Do you use a vocal fry?.

Tips for Tx
The world has changed so much in the past couple years. It is essential that we support social-emotional development and processing of the ongoing new challenges. Conscious Discipline allows us to share visuals of a variety of feelings and tips on how to process them in child-friendly terms.

Levity Lounge
Gaining understanding of communication disorders and barriers is essential in our line of work. Allison Fors shares five TED talks by people with communication disorders.