The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) is the national professional, scientific, and credentialing association for audiologists, speech-language pathologists, and speech, language, and hearing scientists in the United States, representing roughly 247,000 members, certificate holders, and affiliates. Founded in 1925 and headquartered in Rockville, Maryland, ASHA runs a compact but definitive journals program: five peer-reviewed titles that together anchor the evidence base for communication sciences and disorders (CSD).

Unlike the large commercial publishers, ASHA is a non-profit society publisher with a single, deliberately low article processing charge and one submission system across the portfolio. That makes the decisions simpler than they look: the main question is which of the five journals fits your paper, not which of thousands. This guide covers the journal families, open access and APCs, the peer review model, and how to submit.

All five titles are hosted on ASHAWire (pubs.asha.org) and share one set of author instructions, so the choice is purely about scope and audience.

ASHA publishes five peer-reviewed journals: four research journals (JSLHR, AJSLP, AJA, LSHSS) and one scholarly review journal (Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups). It also publishes The ASHA Leader, a membership magazine that is not a peer-reviewed research venue and should not be treated as one in a literature review.

The archive runs deep. ASHA content on ASHAWire goes back to 1936, when the Journal of Speech Disorders launched; that title and the Journal of Speech and Hearing Research were consolidated and eventually renamed to add "Language," producing today's JSLHR. If you are citing mid-century CSD literature, the predecessor titles are the ones you will encounter.

Because the portfolio is small and subject-focused, ASHA journals sit at or near the top of communication sciences and disorders rankings rather than competing on volume. JSLHR's Journal Impact Factor is approximately 2.5 (2.9 over five years) in the most recent release - a normal range for a specialty clinical-science field, and not directly comparable to biomedical megajournals.

ASHA journals are hybrid: subscription titles with a per-article open access option. There are no fully open-access ASHA journals.

A few specifics worth knowing:

• Licence. OA articles carry a Creative Commons licence, with CC BY 4.0 available to satisfy funder mandates.
• Copyright. For articles deposited to PMC, copyright is held by ASHA unless the author selects the open access option.
• NIH public access. Articles accepted on or after 1 July 2025 are made publicly available in PMC upon publication in issue; those accepted earlier followed a six-month embargo. Perspectives is not indexed by PubMed, so NIH-funded authors publishing there must deposit the accepted manuscript to PMC themselves.
• Transformative agreements. ASHA does not operate a large read-and-publish programme comparable to the major commercial publishers. Check with your library before assuming institutional APC coverage.

The $2,000 rate is low for a hybrid journal - ASHA reports it as among the lowest in the communication sciences and disorders field. Confirm the current figure on the ASHA Journals Academy open access page before you budget, as society pricing is reviewed periodically.

• Default model: single-anonymized review. Reviewers see author identities; authors do not see reviewer identities unless a reviewer signs the review.
• Double-anonymized option: available on request, but you must ask at the time of submission and you are responsible for stripping identifying information from the manuscript. The editor-in-chief and handling editor still see all identities.
• Editorial structure: JSLHR reviews through its three sections (Speech, Language, Hearing), each with its own editor, so section fit affects how quickly your manuscript is assigned.
• Turnaround: ASHA does not publish portfolio-wide decision times; check the individual journal page or recent published articles' submission-to-acceptance dates for a realistic estimate.

1. Pick the journal using the scope table above and ASHA's "Selecting a Journal" guidance.
2. Read the author instructions. ASHA maintains one shared instructions-for-authors set on ASHA Journals Academy, plus journal-specific notes.
3. Format to APA 7. ASHA journals follow the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (7th ed.) for citation and manuscript style. SciSpace has ASHA-compliant formats you can write in directly.
4. Submit through Editorial Manager. All ASHA journals use Editorial Manager; there is no separate system per title.
5. Decide on OA and anonymized review at submission. The double-anonymized request must be made up front; the $2,000 OA fee is settled after acceptance.

ASHA is a COPE member and its journals follow COPE guidance on authorship, corrections, and retractions. As a credentialing body as well as a publisher, ASHA also maintains a Code of Ethics that governs its certificate holders, which is separate from - but consistent with - the journals' publication ethics policies. Standard expectations apply: disclose conflicts of interest and funding, register clinical trials where applicable, obtain ethics-board approval for human-subjects research, and follow the data-availability statement requirements in the author instructions.