SLP LIVE [REPLAY]: Feel Empowered Treating Speech

Amy, Jennie, and Rebecca are speech-language pathologists (SLPs) who have a special interest and extensive experience in assessing and treating a wide range of speech sound disorders. This three hour course will target three different topics: Elicitation Strategies: Lateral Lisp and R Tips by Amy Graham - Many SLPs find correcting lateral lisps and residual /r/ errors among children to be extremely challenging. Lateral lisps are articulatory distortions and not developmental in nature, which means that children with such errors should be treated early (McLeod & Baker, 2017). In addition, we now know that most children acquire /r/ by the age of 6 (Crowe & McCLeod, 2020), though SLPs frequently have older children with these residual articulation errors and distortions on their caseloads. Since we know that children who are not stimulable for such sounds are less likely to acquire them without treatment (Rvachew, 2005), focussing on elicitation is imperative but can also be daunting. This presentation will focus on particular elicitation strategies that can be effective for children who have such habituated and motorically-based errors and distortions, such as phonetic approximation and cognitive reframing. Practical therapy tips, video demonstrations, and target selection recommendations will be outlined that can help children move from isolation level to varied word positions contexts. How to Get More Trials in Your Speech Therapy Session by Rebecca Reinking - Many SLPs have heard that you should aim for 100 production trials in your speech therapy session, but where did this number come from? Is it true for all speech sound interventions? And HOW do you get more practice in your session? This presentation is filled with videos and real-life therapy pictures to equip you with simple, functional changes to make to your therapy to encourage high speech productions trials with the latest evidence in mind. Target Selection for Childhood Apraxia by Jennie Bjorem - Target selection is one of the most important parts of successful motor based planning therapy. What do you need to know? This course will cover target selection beginning to end and challenge everything you know about choosing targets for kids with childhood apraxia of speech (CAS). You will walk away feeling empowered ready to choose functional targets in CAS therapy. Based off of Dynamic Temporal and Tactile Cueing (DTTC) approach.

Presenters

Jennie Bjorem
M.A. CCC-SLP
Jennie received her bachelor’s degree in Communication Sciences and Disorders from Saint Louis University and graduated from Truman State University with her master’s degree in Communication Sciences and Disorders in May 1999. She has a great understanding from a parent perspective as she has a young child with special needs. She is the owner of Children’s Therapy Services in Leawood, Kansas. Jennie’s area of expertise is in early intervention birth through 5, parent education and childhood apraxia of speech. She currently provides 22 speech therapy sessions a week to children with CAS. Jennie is recognized for her advanced training and expertise in Childhood Apraxia of Speech by Apraxia Kids. She presented at the Apraxia Kids national conference, had over 75 hours of CAS training in 2018 and was awarded the ASHA ACE Award for Continuing Education. Jennie travels the country speaking on the topic of CAS in her spare time. Jennie is the creator of the Bjorem Speech Sound Cues for acquisition of speech and literacy.
Amy Graham
MA, CCC-SLP
Amy Graham is a speech language pathologist and owner of Graham Speech Therapy, a private practice in Colorado Springs that specializes in pediatric speech sound disorders. Amy is the creator of the Graham Speech Therapy Oral-Facial Exam and the Bjorem Speech Sound Cues Deck for Lateralization. She has a particular interest in supporting and equipping SLPs to provide evidence-based treatment by posting frequent therapy videos and practical therapy tips via her social media accounts.
Rebecca Reinking
CPSP, CCC-SLP
Rebecca Reinking is an Australian speech-language pathologist who is passionate about helping SLPs feel more confident in treating speech sound disorders. Rebecca currently works part-time in private practice and is also the owner of Adventures in Speech Pathology, where she creates evidence-based therapy resources for SLPs. She has a particular interest in phonological interventions and strives to connect and collaborate with speech scientists to bridge the gap between research and clinical practice.

Learning Objectives

Identify at least 3 new elicitation techniques for target phonemes.
Explain how cognitive reframing can be utilized among children with habituated articulation errors.
Describe how target selection and phoneme word position can improve correct production of target phonemes.
Understand the research on dose in relation to treatment intensity for different intervention approaches for speech sound disorders.
Describe changes that you can make to your therapy to increase the number of production trials for speech sound disorders.
Identify common barriers to achieving higher production trials in speech therapy sessions.
Identify at least 3 new elicitation techniques for target phonemes.
Explain how cognitive reframing can be utilized among children with habituated articulation errors.
Describe how target selection and phoneme word position can improve correct production of target phonemes.

Agenda

5 minutes	Introduction of topic
5 minutes	Differential diagnosis of motoric vs. phonological speech disorders
5 minutes	Principles for elicitation of motor-based phonetic errors
20 minutes	Elicitation strategies for non-lateralized fricatives
20 minutes	Elicitation strategies for residual /r/ errors/distortions
5 minutes	Summary and wrap up of topic
5 minutes	Introduction of topic
10 minutes	Review the research on dose and intensity
15 minutes	Explore activities to get high productions in your speech therapy session
15 minutes	Changing your speech therapy activities
10 minutes	Ideas for working with different ages
5 minutes	Wrap up of topic
15 minutes	Overview of target selection
15 minutes	Target Selection Practice
15 minutes	Goal Writing
15 minutes	Targets for older more advanced children

Disclosures

Speakers - Financial	Amy has developed materials available for purchase on her private practice website, GrahamSpeechTherapy.com, Bjorem Speech Publications, Teachers Pay Teachers, Boom Learning, and Holland Healthcare. Amy was paid a flat fee for this course and receives a percentage of course sales. Rebecca is the owner of Adventures in Speech Pathology and receives income from materials that she sells through her website www.adventuresinspeechpatyhology.com , Teachers Pay Teachers, and Boom Learning. Rebecca was paid a flat fee for this course and receives a percentage of course sales. Jennie, she/her is the owner of Bjorem Speech Publications and receives a salary. Jennie was paid a flat fee for this course and receives a percentage of course sales.
Speakers - Nonfinancial	Amy has no nonfinancial relationships related to the content of course to disclose. Rebecca has no nonfinancial relationships related to the content of course to disclose. Jennie has no nonfinancial relationships related to the content of course to disclose.
Course - Content	A portion of this course focuses on the Bjorem Speech Lateralization Deck and Boom Learning Cards that Amy created. A portion of this presentation will feature materials and products by Adventures in Speech Pathology. A portion of this course focuses on use of the Bjorem Speech Sound Cues and will not include similar or related products.
Course - Financial Support & In Kind	This course, and all courses in The Speech Sound Disorder Series, are being sponsored by SLP Toolkit, Bjorem Speech Publications, Graham Speech Therapy, and Adventures in Speech Pathology.

ASHA

This course is offered for 0.3 ASHA CEUs, Intermediate Level, Professional Area, Professional Area

SLP LIVE [REPLAY]: Feel Empowered Treating Speech