What You're Missing: From Assessment to Intervention
Amy, Jennie, and Rebecca are speech-language pathologists with a special interest in treating a wide range of speech sound disorders. Learn how to make your assessments more robust and get the information you need for treatment. This course will teach attendees how to easily incorporate phonological awareness activities into therapy sessions, and highlight what is missing from your childhood apraxia of speech intervention. Combining evidence-based practice with real-life clinical experience, you will level up your speech sound disorders knowledge with practical tips and easy-to-understand information that you can immediately implement.
Scaffolding Stories: Tech-Up Your Narrative Language Intervention
Looking for new ways to target narrative language and its building blocks? Story elements, semantics and syntax can be developed through the use of simple, motivating and visual tech tools. This course will describe tricks and resources for assessing and building narrative language skills with the use of web tools and apps, along with a wealth of examples!
Using Picture Books to Target Goals with Mixed Groups
Children with language impairments are at high risk for difficulty in learning to read and write. SLPs bring knowledge of communication disorders and language acquisition to the literacy table and can play an important and collaborative role in literacy development. (ASHA 2020) This makes books powerful tools to use in any therapy session. In this presentation, we will discuss the process for selecting and using inclusive picture books and how to use beautiful, diverse books as a vehicle to improve speech, language and literacy skills. Participants will be challenged to reconsider book selection and instructed on how to use books to explore emotions and different perspectives.
Snacking Your Way Through Speech and Language Goals
This course will provide a framework for targeting goals as well as specific recommendations for planning and executing successful therapy sessions during “snack time”. We will explore how to select and implement relevant speech and language goals. We will also discuss effective tools and multisensory strategies that can be used to support students during “snack time”. Lastly, the presenter will share practical tips and tricks to ensure that the experience is fun and memorable for all.
Complex Communication Needs: Beyond the Basics
If you have students with complex communication needs using augmentative & alternative communication (AAC) on your caseload, then you’re in the right place! Sometimes therapy can feel tricky with this population, but it doesn’t have to be that way. In this course, we will explore best practices for treating complex communication needs along with activities that go beyond the basics you already know and support the curriculum in the classroom. Using what you already know about language intervention and pairing it with evidence-based practice for AAC, we will have you feeling confident to take on this next school year.
Who’s Down with OPP? Outcomes & Positive Progress Using Curriculum-Based Therapy
Did you know the average speech student spends only 3% of their school week with the SLP? This is why it’s advantageous for SLPs to use classroom created content to enhance their speech and language goals. Nobody wants to feel like an exhausted pigeon who spends their entire day creating lesson plans anyway! You may not realize how much content is available at our fingertips...and the best part is, it’s free. Join us for this presentation where high school SLP Chris Wenger, widely known on social media as “Speech Dude”, will discuss how to effectively pair your speech and language goals with curriculum-relevant activities for older students. Plus, you’ll learn cutting-edge technology tools that provide endless opportunities for you to target their goals with classroom content. Are you ready to tap into what teachers have already created and use your amazing SLP skills to make your sessions meaningful for students? If so, then just wait to see what this presentation has in store for you!
Strategies to Increase Regulation & Communication in Your Autistic Students
A deep understanding of sensory processing is integral to our work with autistic children. In order to target our communication goals in the most effective way possible, our students need to be regulated. This presentation will inspire a new way of thinking about the SLP’s role in addressing sensory needs. Attendees will walk away with new ideas for integrating sensory strategies into their sessions in order to improve attention, build engagement, and increase communication.
