April 13-15, 2012 Tan-Tar-A Resort - Osage Beach, MO

Welcome

Our Attendees are the Remaining Missing Pieces for our 2012 Convention!

Your 2012 MSHA Convention Planning Team (CPT) has put in many hours to ensure that the upcoming convention is the best yet! Plenty of learning opportunities, social gatherings and reunions with friends await you at the 2012 MSHA Convention at Tan-Tar-A!

We have secured eleven leaders in our fields to present on topics relevant to you in your day-to-day practices. Thanks to our colleagues filling in the “missing pieces,” we are excited to offer a wide variety of sessions sure to appeal to everyone. Be sure to jump right in Thursday night at our Pre-Convention Sessions, “Ask MSHA” and our very first “Professional Round Robin.” Be ahead of the game and earn two CEU’s before the Convention even begins!

Lunch will again be served in the Exhibit Hall to all Convention attendees who preregister on Friday. The Exhibit Hall festivities will continue Friday night with the annual Silent Auction to raise funds for our Student Scholarship Fund. While perusing the many items to bid on, check out the vendors who help make this Convention possible. Our Friday evening Happy Hour will end in time for university get-togethers, as well as for a trip to the outlet mall in Osage Beach. This will allow you to rest, refresh and prepare for an action packed Saturday.

Try your luck on the 50/50 drawing this year while supporting the Ozark Center for Autism in Joplin, Missouri. We will again have souvenir t-shirts on sale at the Convention that will benefit this worthy organization. Look for the MSHA Cares table in the registration area to make a donation in honor of a family member or client with Autism.

We are excited to welcome all of our speakers this year, and the President’s Luncheon speaker, Jeff Alt, is no exception. Read more about Jeff in this program and be prepared to be inspired after enjoying a satisfying lunch and awards program hosted by MSHA President, Gil Phon.

Be sure to make time for you while at MSHA and join in our morning exercise groups offered both Saturday and Sunday this year. Janet Gooch will lead the runners and Dana Fritz will lead the walkers along the beautiful trails at Tan-Tar-A in our third annual Stretch and Stroll event Saturday morning. MSHA is elated to add Zumba, led by our very own Blaine Duesing, to our morning fitness schedule Sunday morning.

Don’t forget to support your alma mater during the Quest for the Cup! Come early for the Tailgate Party. EBS continues to sponsor these student events and allow them to be possible. We are very grateful for their involvement.

MSHA continues to help conserve the environment by reducing paper use. Make sure you have all the pieces by retrieving your session handouts from the MSHA website prior to beginning the journey to convention.

You are a piece of the puzzle! Join our work force during the Convention by volunteering your time as a lead or assistant volunteer at this exciting event. Let Jill Josepher or Jane Webb know that you would like to help out by completing the form on the MSHA website, sending in the form found in this program or by e-mailing jill.josepher@raytownschools.org.

On behalf of the 2012 MSHA Convention Planning Team, we look forward to embarking on this exciting journey with you. The CPT appreciates our attendees and is excited to celebrate the roles of speech-language pathologists and audiologists in the habilitation and rehabilitation of the clients we serve. Mark your calendars for April 13-15, to join us for an adventure you are guaranteed to love.

Sincerely,
Katie Bullock, Chair
Dana Fritz, Co-Chair

NEW THURSDAY SESSIONS

ASK MSHA:  PROFESSIONALS WORKING FOR YOUR PROFESSION
This session will utilize a panel discussion format comprised of MSHA Executive Board members and ASHA Advisory Council to focus on issues and trends impacting the professions of speech-language pathology and audiology including reimbursement, legislation at state and federal levels, graduate level training programs, state licensure requirements, and DESE’s implementer model.   Panel members will detail how these issues directly impact the practices of speech-language pathologists and audiologists and will provide information as to how actions at the local, state and national levels can influence change.  Audience members will be given an opportunity to ask questions and to contribute to the discussion.
Thursday, April 12, 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Professional Round Robin
Presenters: Corrina Stanfield; Danielle Sears, MS, CCC-SLP, Roxana Community Unit School District 1, Roxana, IL
During this NEW format, attendees will be exposed to 3 different hot topics in our fields: Smart Notebook software, Speedy Speech and pediatric audiology. Each mini-presentation will last 10-15 minutes and be followed by a short Q&A. Come for an hour and leave with a variety of
new ideas ready for immediate implementation in your therapy!
Level of Instruction: Introductory
Thursday, April 12, 8:15 pm - 9:15 pm

2012 Convention Planning Team

Highlighted Presenters

Barbara Brinkman, CCC-SLP
Barbara Brinkman is a Clinical Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Science and Disorders at the University of Missouri and has served as the Director of the MU Speech and Hearing Clinic for 15 years. This on-campus clinic evaluates and treats clients of all ages with a variety of communication disorders and provides clinical training opportunities for graduate students in the Communication Science and Disorders program. The clinic treats approximately 60 clients each semester. Additionally, Professor Brinkman provides diagnostic services on several multi-disciplinary teams at the Thompson Center for Autism and Neuro-developmental Disorders as well as provides treatment for children with autism. Her teaching load includes: Clinical Practice in Speech-Language Pathology, Clinical Observation in Communication Disorders, Professional Issues, and Language and Autism.

Joseph R. Duffy, PhD
Joe Duffy works in the Division of Speech Pathology in the Department of Neurology at the Mayo Clinic and is a Professor in the Mayo School of Medicine. He is primarily a clinician who spends most of his workdays evaluating people with communication disorders, most of them neurologically based. His research, scholarly and teaching activities are primarily in the area of acquired neuropathologies of speech and language. He is the author of the book Motor Speech Disorders: Substrates, Differential Diagnosis, and Management. He serves on the Editorial Board as an Editorial Consultant to many professional journals, is a member of the Certification Board of the Academy of Neurologic Communication Disorders and Sciences (ANCDS) and is a member of ANCDS Practice Guidelines committees for dysarthrias and apraxia of speech. He is an ASHA Fellow and has been awarded the Honors of ASHA.

Barbara Fernandes, MS, CCC-SLP
Barbara, the founder and director of Smarty Ears received her Master’s degree in Speech and Language Pathology with an emphasis in bilingualism from Texas Christian University. Barbara speaks three languages (English, Spanish & Portuguese), and she has worked with children from a variety of ethnic backgrounds and native languages in several countries. In addition to her passion for working with bilingual children, Barbara’s passion for technology has led her to become an active blogger known as “GeekSLP” for www.geekslp.com and the blog of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association known as the AshaSphere. As GeekSLP, Barbara has been invited as a guest speaker in universities and international conferences, and given workshops and presentations around the world on how technology can be implemented to improve speech and language skills.

In 2004, Barbara was one of the participants of the program jointly administered by the U.S. Department of Education and the Brazilian Ministry of Education, called “Promoting the Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities in Society Through Assistive Technology: Culturally Appropriate Solutions.” Barbara has created over 30 applications that combine her knowledge of technology with her expertise in speech and language sciences. Smarty Ears is where Barbara’s passion is met. As the CEO of Smarty Ears, Barbara Fernandes has created over 30 applications, which have been sold in over 40 countries to speech pathologists, special education teachers and parents of children with special needs. Smarty Symbols is another one of Barbara’s creations; a symbol set that contains 12,000 symbols which also reflect Barbara’s passion for technology and multicultural issues. In her spare time, Barbara enjoys traveling abroad, scuba diving and playing with her gadgets and three dogs.

Robert C. Thompson, PhD
Dr. Thompson graduated from the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center with a major in Communication Disorders. He held professorships at the University of Oklahoma (Norman), University of Texas (Edinburg) and Northeastern State University (Tahlequah). From 1975 to 1992, Dr. Thompson was Director of Speech-Language-Hearing Services at Tulsa Children’s Medical Center, a psychiatric and pediatric hospital. He worked on diagnostic and treatment teams for children who presented psychiatric classifications, including those classified with Selective Mutism. He has worked with hundreds of children who present this condition and has made presentations on Selective Mutism on numerous occasions for the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, and the Australian, New Zealand and Canadian national associations. He presented at the 2004 Congress of the International Association of Logopedics and Phoniatrics in Brisbane, Australia. Currently, he is a consultant in pediatrics at the W. W. Hastings Indian Hospital (Tahlequah) where he conducts differential diagnosis and advises on treatment, and for the Tulsa Neonatal Follow-up Clinic where he assesses language, motor and social development.

Nancy Tye-Murray, PhD
Dr. Nancy Tye-Murray is a Professor in the Department of Otolaryngology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. She holds degrees in deaf education, audiology, speech and hearing sciences and non-profit management. She is the author of five books, including the popular introductory textbook, Foundations of Aural Rehabilitation: Children, Adults, and Their Family Members (3rd Edition, 2009, Delmar-Cengage Learning) and is the author of over 100 peerreviewed research papers. Her research is sponsored by the National Institutes of Health National Institute of Deafness and Communication Disorders, National Institute of Aging, and the AHRQ, and focuses on the effects of aging on audiovisual speech recognition and discourse comprehension, auditory training, audiovisual speech processing by children who have hearing loss, and communication behaviors that occur in medical acute care settings and surgical operating rooms. Dr. Tye-Murray has developed numerous aural rehabilitation curricula, including the auditory training program, I Hear What You Mean, and the communication training program, Conversation Made Easy. She is the former Director of Research at the Central Institute for the Deaf and served as an Erkskine Fellow at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand during the 2011 academic school year.

Vishakha Rawool, PhD
Vishakha Rawool obtained her PhD from Purdue University and completed a post-doctoral fellowship at Johns Hopkins University. She is currently a Professor in the Department of Speech Pathology & Audiology at West Virginia University and teaches several courses including a course titled ‘Industrial Audiology’. She has several publications to her credit including a recent text book titled“Hearing Conservation: In Occupational, Recreational, Educational, & Home Settings.” She has extensive clinical experience in providing comprehensive audiological services to all populations including infants and
older adults.

Charity Shelton, MS, CCC-SLP, CBIST
Charity Shelton is a speech-language pathologist who has been working with adults who have acquired brain injuries for 15 years.  She is currently the Speech Therapy Clinical Coordinator at Missouri Rehabilitation Center/University of Missouri Healthcare and evaluates/treats patients in the Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) Program.  Throughout her career, Charity has presented at many local and state-level conferences, and she has coordinated and been the Chair of several.  In addition, she has published several research articles regarding evaluation/treatment of cognitive-linguistic disorders in adults with acquired brain injuries.  She is currently involved in a 3-phase research study that is examining the use of noninvasive brain stimulation and neuromodulation for the treatment of attention and working memory deficits in adults with TBI.  Charity has also been involved in various brain injury advocacy groups including the MO Brain Injury Advisory Council, of which she was Chair for several years.  In 2010, she received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Brain Injury Association of Missouri for her years in caring for persons with brain injury, her research endeavors, and her advocacy work.  Charity is a Certified Brain Injury Specialist and Trainer through the Brain Injury Association of America.

Sarah Rozehnal Ward, MS, CCC-SLP
Sarah Ward, has more than 14 years experience in diagnostic evaluations, treatment and case management of children, adolescents and adults with a wide range of developmental and acquired brain based learning difficulties and behavioral problems not limited to but including: Attention Deficit Disorder, Verbal Learning Disabilities, Non-Verbal Learning Disabilities, Asperger Syndrome, Other Social-Cognitive Learning Disabilities, Traumatic Brain Injury and Acquired Brain Injury.

Her particular interest is in the assessment and treatment of executive function deficits. Sarah also provides consultation and expert witness testimony regarding the symptoms and functional presentation of deficits associated with brain based learning disabilities and the appropriateness of academic placement and treatment programs. She became a specialist in the assessment and rehabilitation of traumatic brain injury with an emphasis on the treatment executive functions. She subsequently began to train graduate students in speech and language pathology and medical and special education professionals on the symptoms and treatment methods to improve the language, cognitive, executive function and social skills of brain based disorders.

Convention Hotel

Tan-Tar-A Resort is excited to be part of MSHA's 52nd Convention and has been working hard with our Convention Planning Team to make this Convention something special. As you enjoy the MSHA Convention educational opportunities, make time to take advantage of the may recreational or relaxing amenities Tan-Tar-A has to offer.

Make your reservations now!
Come and see what Tan-Tar-A has to offer or check out their website ahead of time to schedule your free time. Perhaps a massage, spa treatment, shopping or just relaxing by the indoor pool.

Special Discounted Rates for Convention Goers

Three Methods to Make A Reservation

Reservation Form

On-Line - Group Access Code: SPCH

Call -1-800-TAN-TAR-A (800-826-8272)

Directions

Not sure how to get to Tan-Tar-A?  Here’s how!

From St. Louis
Interstate 70 West to Kingdom City, Highway 54 west through Osage Beach to State Road KK, north (right) 3 miles to Tan-Tar-A entrance. 2 1/2 hours driving time.
or
Interstate 44 West to Waynesville, Highway 17 north to Iberia, Highway 42 west to Highway 54 west (left) through Osage Beach to State Road KK, north (right) 3 miles to Tan-Tar-A entrance.

Kansas City
From Kansas City, take Interstate 70 east to Boonville exit on Highway 5 to Versailles, southeast to Eldon on Highway 52, west on Highway 54 through Osage Beach to State Road KK, north (right) 3 miles to Tan-Tar-A entrance. 3-3 1/2 hours driving time.
or Highway 50 to Tipton, south on Highway 5 to Highway 52, east to Eldon, west on Highway 54 through Osage Beach to State Road KK, north (right) 3 miles to Tan-Tar-A entrance.
or
Interstate 70 to Route 5 south to Camdenton, east (left) on Highway 54 ten miles to State Road KK, north (left) 3 miles to Tan-Tar-A entrance.

Springfield
Interstate 44 east to Lebanon, north (left) on Highway 5 to Camdenton, east (right) on Highway 54 ten miles to State Road KK, north (left) 3 miles to Tan-Tar-A entrance. 1 1/2 hours driving time.

Columbia
Highway 63 south to Jefferson City, right on Highway 54 south through Osage Beach to State Road KK, north (right) 3 miles to Tan-Tar-A entrance. 1 1/2 hours driving time.
 

Schedule of Events

Thursday, April 12
6:00pm-8:00pm ............................MSHA Registration
7:00pm-8:00pm ............................Pre-Convention Session: ASK MSHA
8:15pm-9:15pm ............................NEW! Pre-Convention Session: Professional Round Robin

Friday, April 13
8:00am-6:00pm.............................MSHA Registration
8:00am-4:30pm.............................Day Institutes in Session
(Lunch will be served at 11:30 in the Session Rooms)
10:30am .......................................Exhibit Hall Opens
10:30am-6:30pm...........................Silent Auction
10:45am-11:45am.........................Exhibitor Round Robin
10:00am .......................................Convention Sessions Begin
12:00pm-1:00pm ..........................Lunch for Convention Attendees in Exhibit Hall
(pre-registration is required)
5:30pm-6:30pm ............................Friday Happy Hour
5:30pm-6:30pm ............................Poster Session Part I
6:30pm .........................................50/50 Raffle Drawing

Saturday, April 14
6:00am-7:00am.............................Stretch and Stroll
7:30am-6:00pm.............................MSHA Registration Area Open
7:15am-8:15am.............................HOT! Continental Breakfast in Exhibit Hall
7:15am-8:15am.............................Poster Session Part II
8:00am .........................................Convention Sessions Begin
11:00am-12:00pm.........................Exhibitor Round Robin
12:30pm-2:30pm ..........................President’s Celebration
12:30pm .......................................Exhibit Hall Closes
6:30pm .........................................Tailgate Party
7:30pm-8:30pm ............................Quest for the Cup Competition

Sunday, April 15
6:00am-7:00am.............................Zumba
7:30am-1:00pm.............................MSHA Registration Area Open
7:15am-8:15am.............................Continental Breakfast in Salon C
7:15am-8:15am.............................Poster Session Part III
8:00am .........................................Convention Sessions Begin

Continuing Education

The 2012 MSHA Convention provides you with the opportunity to earn up to 25 clock hours; 2.5 ASHA CEUs and 1.6 AAA CEUs. We welcome you to the MSHA Convention. As a courtesy, we remind you that you are responsible for following requirements as specified by the licensing entity in your state.

Audiology: Applications have been made for AAA and IIHIS CEUs.

NOTE: Amount of CEUs subject to change due to presenter cancellation and other events beyond MSHA’s control.

MSHA Plus
It pays to be a MSHA member. MSHA, in partnership with the University of Missouri-Kansas City, will offer MSHA Plus, a program for Convention goers to earn one hour of graduate credit by attending a minimum of 12.5 hours of Convention and/or day institute sessions. This program is available to MSHA members only.

What Should I Know About MSHA Plus?

• MSHA Plus is open to MSHA members only.
• Grades will be assigned based on the quality of the final project submitted.
• Graduate credit hours accrued from Convention attendance will not count as hours toward a graduate degree, except as elective hours if they are approved by your individual university program director.

How and When Do I Register?
If you want to take advantage of this offer, you must pre-enroll when you register for the Convention. Once MSHA Central Office staff has verified your membership status, you will receive an email with an enrollment form and instructions for completion. Onsite registration at the Convention is discouraged.

How Much Does It Cost?
The registration fee for the course is $85 if received by MSHA Central Office by February 22, 2012. Should you enroll after that date, the fee is $95. The fee covers the charge for enrollment as well as all associated costs on the part of MSHA personnel to process applications and includes compensation to the course instructor for grading final projects.

Once I’ve Registered For The Program, Then What?
Plan to stop by the MSHA Plus table at the Convention. We’ll provide you with a packet of everything you’ll need to get started.

What Are the Requirements For Earning Graduate Credit?

• A minimum of 12.5 contact hours are required for one hour of graduate credit.
• Participants will receive instructions regarding a final “course project” that must be submitted in order to receive graduate credit. The participant has four weeks from the end of Convention to send the final project to the instructor. Due date is May 14, 2012.
• The participant will have at least two project options from which to choose. Project options include lesson plans utilizing new treatment techniques learned at Convention or a reflection paper on a particular topic.
• A short summary of each session attended is also required.
• A copy of the CEU Record Form listing sessions attended needs to be submitted with your final project.

Who should I contact if I have questions or need clarification about MSHA Plus?
Contact Shirley Madden, 2012 MSHA Plus Coordinator, at shirlmadden@sbcglobal.net or 417-887-9239.