Day Institutes

Friday, April 13, 2012
8:00 am - 4:30 pm

Play it By Ear! Auditory Teaching Strategies and Techniques to Maximize Outcomes for Children With Hearing Loss

Catching Kids Before They Fall: Strategies to Help “Out of Sync” Students With SPD

Treatment of People With Moderate to Severe Aphasia: Current Evidence-Based Approaches for Improving Communication

Play it By Ear! Auditory Teaching Strategies and Techniques to Maximize Outcomes for Children With Hearing Loss
Teresa H. Caraway, PhD, CCC-SLP, LSLS Cert. AVT

This Day Institute will discuss auditory teaching strategies and techniques to turn listening and spoken language possibilities into realities for children with hearing loss and their families. Practical strategies and intervention techniques to develop auditory skills from detection to conversation will be presented. Videotape segments will be utilized to demonstrate strategies targeting various auditory skill levels from beginning with babies to toddlers to preschoolers to school age children and the use of children’s literature to facilitate development of critical thinking and language reasoning skills. Suggestions for coaching and guiding family members to become the primary language model will be shared. Practical suggestions for collaboration between team members will be shared and the needed information exchange between audiologists, early interventionists, educators, speech-language pathologists and parents will be specified. We are in a position today to dramatically expand the opportunities for children born with hearing loss to develop exceptional conversational abilities, literacy skills, academic competencies and professional flexibility – if we play it by ear!

Level of Instruction: Intermediate to Advanced
Content Applicable: Infants/Toddlers, Preschool and School-Age
Content Areas: Amplification; Aural Rehab; Cochlear Implants; Counseling; Language; Literacy; Management of Hearing Loss and Educational Issues

ABA Tier 1 Continuing Education hours toward the American Board of Audiology recertification requirement are available for this Day Institute.

Catching Kids Before They Fall: Strategies to Help “Out of Sync” Students With SPD
Carol Kranowitz, MA

Some children withdraw from physical contact, refuse to participate in typical classroom and outdoor activities that their peers enjoy, struggle to communicate their needs and thoughts or respond in an unusual way to ordinary sensations of touch, movement, sights and sounds. These children don't behave as we expect – not because they won't, but because they can't. Inefficient processing of sensory messages that come from one's body and surroundings often cause out-of-sync behavior.  Understanding how this neurological condition "plays out," as well as providing fun and functional sensory-motor experiences, can help children regulate sensory stimuli and improve their learning and behavior at home, at school and on the playground.

Level of Instruction: Intermediate
Content Applicable: Preschool, School-Age and Pre-Adolescents
Content Areas: SPD can affect Infants/Toddlers and Adults, too. Thus, the information about SPD will be applicable to all ages.

Treatment of People With Moderate to Severe Aphasia: Current Evidence-Based Approaches for Improving Communication
Marjorie Nicholas, PhD, CCC-SLP

Designing successful treatment approaches for people with moderate to severe aphasia poses a particularly difficult challenge to speech-language pathologists. This workshop provides an update on current clinical research related to both verbal and nonverbal methods to enhance communication in people with moderate or severe aphasia. Treatment methods covered include newer verbal methods such as constraint induced language therapy (CILT), Verb Network Strengthening Treatment (V-NeST) and AphasiaScripts, as well as updates on already well established methods such as Melodic Intonation Therapy and Voluntary Control of Involuntary Utterances. Compensatory communication treatments such as low technology interventions (gestures, drawing and communication notebooks) as well as high technology AAC computer approaches will also be presented (C-Speak Aphasia and Visual Scene Displays). Finally, cognitive treatments for executive function disorders and community-based life participation approaches will be discussed. Case-based examples with accompanying videos will be presented throughout.

Level of Instruction: Intermediate
Content Applicable: Adults
Content Areas: Neurogenic Speech, Language, and Cognition; AAC; Evidence-based Practice; Research