2.1.1. Newspapers

It is reported that newspapers and other media influence discourses [10]. The media has a large impact on individuals and is influencing their perspective on many issues. Media set agendas in what is reported and provide an opportunity for flow of information and new perspectives [11]. Framing is one way to perform a newspaper analysis [40,41]. The aim of the study was to analyze what frames were used to describe the role of speech-related professionals in relation to neuro-advancements. Three ways of framing includes structural [42], content [43], and issue-specific framing [44,45]. The content analysis used in this study focused on how the communicator (the newspaper) frames the role of speech-related professionals as it relates to neuro-advancements.

## 2.1.2. Academic Literature

The objective of this study was to ascertain whether, to what extent, and how the academic literature around neuro-advancements engaged with speech-related professions especially in relation to the role of speech-related professionals. To achieve this objective, a modified scoping review drawing from [46] was chosen as the most appropriate for the study given the research questions. Scoping studies allow to "map rapidly the key concepts underpinning a research area" [46] (see also [47,48]), and to identify the extent of research present on a given topic [49–51] and the current understanding of a given topic. The following study followed in a modified way the stages outlined by [46], namely: identifying the review's research questions, identifying databases to search, generating inclusion/exclusion criteria, recording the descriptive quantitative results, selecting literature based on descriptive quantitative results for qualitative analysis, qualitative analysis of data, and reporting findings of qualitative analysis.

## *2.2. Data Sources and Data Collection*

## 2.2.1. Academic Literature

To maintain a clear and feasible scope [48], eligible academic data was identified using explicit search strategies across a range of data sources [50]. On March 28th, 2018, two academic databases were searched, namely EBSCO-HOST, an umbrella database that includes over 70 other databases itself and Scopus, which incorporates the full Medline database collection, with no time restrictions. These two databases were chosen because together they contain journals that encompass a wide range of topics from areas of relevance to answer the research questions. To continue to maintain a feasible scope [48], three search strategies were employed.

Strategy 1: The abstracts of articles in EBSCO-HOST and Scopus were searched for the terms "speech language" OR "speech patholog\*" OR "speech therap\*" OR "audiolog\*" in combination with "Neuro\*" (not downloaded) OR 49 neuro-related terms (Table 1, downloaded) OR "neurosc\*", "neuroen\*","neurotechn\*",omittingcochlearimplant(downloaded),obtaining *n* = 368uniqueresults.

Strategy 2: The abstracts of articles in EBSCO-HOST and Scopus were searched for the terms "speech language pathologist\*" OR "speech therapist\*" OR "audiologist\*" in combination with the term "cochlear implant\*" obtaining *n* = 251 unique results (downloaded).

Strategy 3: Scopus was used to search journals that contained "speech\*" or "audiolog\*" in the journal title and the following terms in the abstract: "neuro\*" (not downloaded) OR the 49 neuro-related terms not containing cochlear implant (downloaded), OR the terms "neurosc\*" or "neurotechn\*" or "neuroen\*" (downloaded) obtaining *n* = 353 unique results.

Additional inclusion criteria: EBSCO was only searched for scholarly peer reviewed journals, while Scopus was searched for reviews, peer reviewed articles, conference papers, and editorials.
