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Event Date: 10/29/2020
Format(s):
Live Webinar
This live webinar (October 29, 2020, 1–3 p.m. ET) will explore the nature and typical development of speech sound production in children under age 3 with and without language delays or disorders. The speakers will discuss best practices for assessment of speech abilities in young children as well as family-centered strategies to facilitate speech sound development within everyday activities and routines in early intervention.
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Event Date: 11/4/2020
Format(s):
Live Webinar
This live webinar (November 4, 2020, 1–3 p.m. ET) will address situations across practice settings that could present ethical dilemmas, including client abandonment, billing, conflicts of interest, confidentiality, employer demands, and professional or product misrepresentation. The presenter will provide strategies to help professionals determine if an ethical dilemma exists, what course(s) of action one might take, and steps one might consider in an effort to avoid such situations in the future.
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Event Dates:11/11/2020-11/23/2020
Format(s):
Online Conference
This online conference will help you stay current with the evolving clinical practice of audiology by delving into four key areas: professional practice considerations, technology, business and marketing, and research.
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Event Dates:12/2/2020-12/14/2020
Format(s):
Online Conference
Help your patients with traumatic brain injuries (TBIs) on their road to recovery.
The expert presenters in this comprehensive online conference will share practical, evidence-based strategies for improving functional outcomes and quality of life for adults and children with traumatic brain injuries. Session topics will include: assessment and treatment approaches for children, adolescents, and adults; discussion of special populations, including veterans and college students; related medical conditions; concussion/mild TBI; patient/family perspectives, return to school/work, and more.
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Event Date: 12/2/2020
Format(s):
Live Webinar
This live webinar (December 2, 2020, 1–2:30 p.m. ET) will discuss and demonstrate interactive whiteboard technologies as an exciting and impactful way to provide meaningful intervention experiences to school-age children and adolescents. The speaker will share creative ideas and specific examples on how to use Promethean and Smart boards in a fun and functional manner.
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Event Date: 12/3/2020
Format(s):
Live Webinar
This live webinar (December 3, 2020, 1-3 p.m. ET) will provide practical, evidence-based strategies that target the psychological, emotional, and social domains of stuttering (the lower, underwater mass of the iceberg) to help clients progress from tendencies of avoidance to acceptance and openness. The speakers will discuss how to integrate basic interpersonal counseling strategies into person-centered treatment and then will guide attendees through creating acceptance-based holistic goals and objectives and documenting progress.
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Format(s):
Journal (Online)
This journal self-study course highlights various instructional strategies that demonstrate positive progress for students with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The findings and recommendations can assist SLPs in choosing strategies that produce targeted outcomes for students with ASD on their caseload.
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Format(s):
SIG Perspectives and Exam
This collection of articles presents clinicians with information on some of the most timesensitive
topics in dysphagia care of utmost relevance, particularly in the current COVID-
19 pandemic. Firstly, Liza Blumenfeld, Lisa Evangelista, Maggie Kuhn, Kristen
Linnemeyer, Nogah Nativ-Zeltzer, and Heather Starmer provide best practice
recommendations on the management of patients with head and neck cancers from the
speech-language pathology perspective amid COVID-19. Authors Hema Desia and
Jennifer Raminick then provide recommendations for safer feeding of infants on high
flow oxygen therapy due to acute respiratory failure. Lastly, authors Grainne Brady and
Justin Roe, Kellyn Hall and Leslie Johnson, and Annette Askren and Marnie Kershner
discuss different aspects of clinician–patient collaborated dysphagia care delivery
models and their impact on successful outcomes.
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Format(s):
SIG Perspectives and Exam
First, Julie Case and Maria Grigos provide a review of speech motor control literature in
childhood apraxia of speech (CAS) and give clinical implications to the assessment and
treatment of CAS. Second, Kristen Allison reviews approaches to measuring speech
intelligibility in children with motor speech disorders. Third, Tricia McCabe, Donna
Thomas, and Elizabeth Murray describe Rapid Syllable Transition Treatment (ReST) as
a treatment for CAS. Fourth, Nancy Tarshis, Michelle Winner, and Pamela Crooke
explore how communication challenges in CAS impact social competency and how
speech motor challenges impact social development. Finally, Nina Benway and
Jonathan Preston evaluate if features of CAS in the literature could be replicated in a
sample of school-age children. Readers will describe how speech motor skills have been
found to change with practice in CAS, list the linguistic factors that can influence
intelligibility, describe the quality of the research that supports ReST, explain ways to
consider social cognition in therapy for CAS, and rank the speech features that
distinguish the narrow phonetic transcriptions of children with CAS and speech sound
disorders.
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Format(s):
SIG Perspectives and Exam
This exercise highlights three articles. First, a qualitative research study with multiple
high school student participants with deafness/hearing loss examining factors that
promoted versus challenged their access to classroom communication and participation
is included. The next article is a preliminary study exploring that children with reading
impairments are more likely to fail hearing screenings that children with typical reading
skills. Finally, the third article looks at shared book reading and its association with
language growth aspects for children who are deaf and hard of hearing over a 4-week
training program related to caregiver knowledge of emergent literacy features
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Format(s):
Journal (Online)
This journal self-study course is composed of papers from a 2019 Research Forum, Advancing Statistical Methods in Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences. These selected articles provide advanced-level discussion about clinically relevant statistical methodologies to give speech-language pathologists a stronger foundation from which to analyze and understand the statistical research they come across to decide when and how to apply it in practice.
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Format(s):
SIG Perspectives and Exam
In these Perspectives (SIG 4) articles, two of the articles relate to patterns of disfluency in young bilingual children—one of these two articles adds the patterns of stuttering in young bilingual children that stutter. The third article uses a thematic analysis to help understand why adults who stutter attended self-help groups.
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Format(s):
SIG Perspectives and Exam
First, Katie Strong and Barbara Shadden provide an overview of the relationship
between narrative, identity, and social co-construction for persons with aphasia and
narrative treatment approaches for identity renegotiation. Second, Jamie Azios and Jack
Damico relate the Lifetime Participation Approach to Aphasia (LPAA) and issues in longterm
care (LTC) along with practice recommendations for implementing LPAA in LTC.
Third, Jerry Hoepner and Tom Sather examine the potential approaches for teaching
and mentoring students in LPAA. Fourth, Rochelle Cohen-Schneider, Melodie Chan,
Denise McCall, Allison Tedesco, and Ann Abramson explore balancing relationshipcentered
care and professionalism. Finally, Sarah Wallace, Elena Donoso Brown, Anna
Saylor, Erica Lapp, and Joanna Eskander describe aphasia-friendly modifications for
occupational therapy assessments and home programs.
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Format(s):
On Demand Webinar
Infection prevention and control is always important in the audiology clinic, but COVID-19 has brought unique challenges to the forefront of audiologists’ practice. This on demand webinar (available beginning October 3, 2020) will offer a basic overview of standard precautions while focusing on infection-related precautions that are of particular importance to audiologists.
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Format(s):
SIG Perspectives and Exam
These Perspectives (SIG 3) articles address ethical considerations for voice and upper airway clinicians. Speech language pathologists are responsible to conduct clinical and business activities ethically, legally, and with a high level of integrity. Billing questions and reimbursement issues that often arise related to ever-changing insurance regulations and Medicare guidelines will be addressed. Additionally, factors that guide ethical decision-making to determine what comprises medically necessary voice therapy that involves or targets singing voice will be presented.
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Format(s):
SIG Perspectives and Exam
These Perspectives (SIG 18) articles present information on various aspects of telepractice, including ethics and telepractice, a guide for establishing remote services in private practice, and a systematic review of telepractice for adult speech-language pathology services.
New!
Format(s):
On Demand Webinar
This on demand webinar (available beginning October 31, 2020) will explore the nature and typical development of speech sound production in children under age 3 with and without language delays or disorders. The speakers will discuss best practices for assessment of speech abilities in young children as well as family-centered strategies to facilitate speech sound development within everyday activities and routines in early intervention.
New!
Format(s):
On Demand Webinar
This on demand webinar presents research evidence and practical examples to help SLPs design person-centered, evidence-based group treatments for individuals with mild to moderate dementia.
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Format(s):
SIG Perspectives and Exam
These Perspectives (SIG 8) articles cover a wide range of audiology and public health research and clinical topics. There are three original research reports and one clinical review. In the first research report, Roman et al. examine the impact of reduced audibility and speaker voice on the mini-mental state examination score in a group of young adults without cognitive impairment. Next, Beamer et al. conduct a preliminary study to investigate the role of a hearing loss prevention education strategies in an active duty military population. Reavis et al. estimate the association between tinnitus and self-reported depression symptoms and between tinnitus and perceived anxiety in a nationally representative sample of U.S. adults. The final article by Henry and Manning is a review article on sound therapy approaches and clinical options for tinnitus management.
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Format(s):
SIG Perspectives and Exam
These Perspectives (SIG 5) articles focus on the status of academic and clinical training related to cleft and craniofacial conditions, a module training series for addressing the gaps in current educational roadmaps, and resources and best practice recommendations are provided.
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Format(s):
SIG Perspectives and Exam
These Perspectives (SIG 19) articles focus on perceptual considerations and the use of a system to investigate lingual coordination as a clinical tool. In the first article Rakerd et al. review the resonant effects of performers, resonance associated with nasality, and resonant voice for both normal and disordered populations. In the second article Grover et al. use the bubble noise method, which places noise randomly in time and frequency with “holes” or “bubbles” that give glimpses into the target signal, to determine what is perceptually important in the speech signal for native/first language listeners versus nonnative/second language listeners. In the final article, Dugan et al. review TonguePART, an image processing system used to track the tongue surface, as a reliable, fast method to track articulatory movement of the tongue for syllables
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Format(s):
SIG Perspectives and Exam
These Perspectives (SIG 15) articles discuss issues related to dementia care, student supervision, and the home health patient driven groupings model. Warren describes the rational for the development of a new payment system, how it will be changing, and what speech-language pathologists can do to be prepared and successfully navigate the transition. Davies explores the relating concepts of participation and communication in dementia care research and to propose future avenues of research within the field of communication disorders. Bice and Smith discuss current issues found in external clinical placements, their possible causes, and offers practical solutions for assisting students to benefit from their experiences.
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Format(s):
On Demand Webinar
This course discusses delirium, an underrecognized syndrome associated with increased morbidity and mortality, particularly in patients in the intensive care unit (ICU). The speaker will explain how to recognize the signs of delirium and present strategies for treatment and prevention to improve patient outcomes.
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Format(s):
SIG Perspectives and Exam
This Perspectives (SIG 1) forum focuses on the treatment of young children with a diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder. The first article examines the effects of parent-mediated intervention on the spoken language of young children. The second article focuses on an embedded teacher-implemented social communication intervention for preschoolers. The third article examined peer mediated augmentative and alternative communication for young minimally verbal children. The final article reported on social communication predictors of successful inclusion experiences for students with autism in an early childhood lab school.
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Format(s):
On Demand Webinar
This on demand webinar (available beginning June 25, 2020) will explore various aspects of working with pediatric patients with complex aerodigestive disorders. Speaker Kara Fletcher Larson will discuss the developmental progression to oral feeding, implementing safe feeding plans, weaning from gastrostomy tube feedings, and working within a multidisciplinary team.
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Format(s):
eWorkshop
This course focuses on emerging research and changing practices in the management of dysphagia as it relates to aspiration pneumonia prevention and oral care. The presenters review the contribution of oral biofilms to bacterial aspiration pneumonia and systemic health, and discuss the genesis and treatments for aspiration pneumonia. The course describes the national VA deployment of a pneumonia prevention initiative and provides practical instruction in the development of an oral care program participants can use to implement a program in their own facility.
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Format(s):
SIG Perspectives and Exam
These Perspectives (SIG 14) articles focus on learning about variables and challenges that impact heritage language transmission and incorporating student engagement into the local community as part of cultural diversity training in a communication disorders curriculum. Topics include (a) examining variables that contribute to heritage language transmission in Texas, and (b) increasing student awareness of cultural linguistic diversity within the local communities in and around the Los Angeles, CA area.
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Format(s):
SIG Perspectives and Exam
In these Perspectives (SIG 10) Roos and Schreck examine the stress experienced by undergraduate students in communication sciences and disorders (CSD), including stress levels, reasons for stress, stress management, and knowledge/use of campus resources to address stress. Shah and Galantino address building the emotional intelligence of undergraduate students studying CSD through exercises completed in class. Sylvan, Perkins, and Tuglio study the experiences and perceptions of CSD students applying to master’s degree programs, including deciding factors for top choices of graduate programs, emotional involvement in the application process, biases/rumors heard, student challenges, advice to future applicants, and what students would change about the application process. Finally, Crais and Savage present an examination of CSD graduates’ perceptions of their PhD program, including challenges they faced, facilitators for success, their preparation for research/teaching/job readiness, and ways PhD education might be improved.
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Format(s):
SIG Perspectives and Exam
These Perspectives (SIG 16) articles focus on ethical issues and describe considerations for the development of clinical skills in school-based settings. Readers will reflect upon and learn to resolve common ethical dilemmas, review a model of graduate mentoring from the lens of implementation science, and learn about commonly reported factors that both supervisors and graduate students believe critical within successful school-based internship experiences.
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Format(s):
On Demand Webinar
As states, payers, patients, and clients consider telepractice as an alternative service delivery model, many audiologists are struggling to adapt their in-person practices to teleaudiology and are overwhelmed by quickly evolving coding and payment laws and regulations. This course provides practical information to help audiologists assess their own readiness for telehealth – as well as client and patient readiness – and develop a plan to implement this service delivery model. The presenters also discuss coding, payment, and compliance considerations and provide resources to help audiologists navigate changing regulations and ensure coding and payment compliance.
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Format(s):
Streaming Video
Children with spoken language disorders often experience difficulties with reading as well. SLPs – particularly those working in school-based settings – have a responsibility to prevent, assess, and treat reading impairments. In this video course, presenter Kelly Farquharson will discuss how SLPs can approach this important clinical need from a robust and empirically supported theoretical framework, the Simple View of Reading.
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Format(s):
SIG Perspectives and Exam
These Perspectives (SIG 16) articles address strategies for working alongside, as well as teaching others, to improve preschool to middle school students’ performance in language, literacy, social skills, and feeding/swallowing abilities, as well as learn how others perceive speech-language pathologists’ efforts in some of these areas.
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Format(s):
On Demand Webinar
Audiologists and speech-language pathologists need to be informed about and implement appropriate infection control practices regardless of their practice setting. This course describes the fundamentals of health care epidemiology and infection control, including pathogen transmission, outbreak management, occupational health management, prevention, and management of various infections.
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Format(s):
On Demand Webinar
This on demand webinar focuses on effective assessment and treatment of communication challenges in adults with diagnosed mental health conditions, a growing and often underserved population. Speakers Shannon Liem and Jessica Pranke explore how disease progression and medication can affect an individual’s behaviors, social interactions, and communication. The speakers also discuss the roles, responsibilities, and contributions of SLPs working with patients with communication challenges and mental health diagnoses.
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Format(s):
On Demand Webinar
This on demand webinar explains self-regulated strategy development (SRSD), an instructional approach for strengthening students’ writing abilities. Speaker Michael Hebert introduces and models the approach and discusses how to implement it effectively.
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Format(s):
Journal (Online)
A 2019 Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools forum, Vocabulary Across the School Grades, presented evidence that strong vocabulary is important for students’ literacy and overall academic success across grade levels. The articles in this journal self-study course describe effective instructional strategies for facilitating vocabulary growth and improving reading comprehension in middle and high school students. The authors present recommendations and implications for practice.
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Format(s):
SIG Perspectives and Exam
These Perspectives (SIG 13) presents clinicians with information across many aspects of feeding and swallowing. Firstly Kendrea Garand, Taylor Thomas, and Rajarshi Dey discuss the physiology of laterality in the clearance of boluses from the pharynx. Next, Jennifer Wilson, Amanda Simmons, and Jillian McCarthy then take us through an interesting description of speech-language pathologists’ experiences and education in pediatric dysphagia and encourage the incorporation of intensive education in this high-risk topic, via various avenues. In the final three articles, Pamela Smith, Jinxu Bridget Xia, and Claire Radford et al., present an in-depth and elaborate perspective on managing patients with dysphagia through a palliative care lens, across the lifespan.
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Format(s):
On Demand Webinar
This course is designed for speech-language pathologists and audiologists with little to no experience with telepractice who have suddenly found it necessary to deliver their services remotely. The presenters address regulations, technology options, policies and procedures, the role of support personnel, and best practices to give clinicians the key information they need to prepare for offering quality services through telepractice.
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Format(s):
On Demand Webinar
This webinar offers detailed guidance to support clinicians' decision-making when selecting appropriate treatments for early childhood stuttering. Presenter J. Scott Yaruss reviews differences and similarities between less-direct and more-direct approaches and provides specific examples of when and why to use each type of treatment.
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Format(s):
On Demand Webinar
This on demand webinar (available beginning October 15, 2020) will explain Medicare's definition of and requirements for skilled maintenance therapy compared with skilled restorative-based care. The speaker will discuss the regulatory history and landscape changes related to Medicare coverage of skilled maintenance services. The speaker will then provide guidance on best practices for developing maintenance treatment plans and documenting skilled care.
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Format(s):
eWorkshop
This session provides an interdisciplinary (audiology, otology, and physical therapy)
perspective on management of patients with dizziness, specifically geared toward
cutting-edge management techniques and recommendations for care. The panel
presentation discusses surgical and nonsurgical approaches and clinical cases to
highlight patient benefits and improved clinical outcomes. A question-and-answer period
concludes the presentation.
This course was presented and recorded at the 2019 ASHA Convention. The session
was developed by, and presenters invited by, Hearing, Vestibular, Tinnitus - Assessment
and Intervention: Adult.
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Format(s):
eWorkshop
Recent studies from the presenters’ laboratory demonstrate a relationship between electrode-to-modiolus distance and channel independence. Specifically, children and adults who use cochlear implants (CIs) (precurved electrodes) demonstrate performance gains up to 12 and 16 channels. The presenters’ working theory is that greater channel independence affords better spectrotemporal resolution. This presentation describes the relationship between spectrotemporal processing and CI outcomes for adult and pediatric CI users.
This course was presented and recorded at the 2019 ASHA Convention. This session was developed by, and presenters invited by, Hearing, Tinnitus, and Vestibular Science.
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Format(s):
eWorkshop
The Exceptional Children Division, North Carolina Department of Public Instruction (NCDPI), supports and fosters interprofessional practice between the disciplines of speech-language pathology, occupational therapy, and physical therapy. This presentation outlines how a team began this work and used the principles of implementation science to promote best practice in districts/LEAs throughout North Carolina. Several applications to statewide initiatives are presented.
This course was presented and recorded at the 2019 ASHA Convention.
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Format(s):
eWorkshop
Meniere’s disease (MD) rarely occurs in children. Due to this, care and treatment by knowledgeable clinicians and physicians are lacking. This presentation reviews a case of a 10-year-old male with diagnosed MD, the interdisciplinary approach for care and treatment, the cross-facility approach for obtaining best results, and follow-up hearing aid fitting suggestions for the affected ear.
This course was presented and recorded at the 2019 ASHA Convention.
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Format(s):
eWorkshop
Vestibular loss can co-occur with hearing loss. One functional effect of vestibular loss is
decreased dynamic visual acuity. There is some speculation that vestibular loss can also
affect reading and/or reading acuity. This presentation outlines the relationship between
vestibular loss and both dynamic and static visual acuity and its possible effect on
reading and other daily activities.
This course was presented and recorded at the 2019 ASHA Convention. The session
was developed by, and presenters invited by, Hearing, Tinnitus, and Vestibular Science.
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Format(s):
eWorkshop
The presenters discuss their work on optical imaging of the inner ear to enable progress in understanding, diagnosing, and treating human sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL). Next, they illustrate their approach to develop personalized therapies for SNHL, using vestibular schwannoma as an example. Finally, they demonstrate the promise of gene therapy, nanotechnology, and computational drug repositioning.
This course was presented and recorded at the 2019 ASHA Convention.
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Format(s):
eWorkshop
Comprehensive auditory rehabilitation for adults includes communication strategies, assistive listening devices, perceptual training, and supportive counseling. The problem-solving format allows an engaging and patient-centered means of addressing communication strategies and counseling needs. This presentation addresses the organization of problem-solving using the problem-solving approach (SOS); distance, angle, reverberation, and noise (DARN); and thinking, emotional response, and action (TEA).
This course was presented and recorded at the 2019 ASHA Convention.
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Format(s):
eWorkshop
The evaluation and non-medical management of balance disorders in children and adults is an exciting and growing opportunity for audiologists to participate in this important aspect of health care services. This presentation highlights the most common conditions throughout the life span from neonate to geriatric and includes an evidence-based clinical pathway model of gold-standard evaluation protocols and management strategies.
This course was presented and recorded at the 2019 ASHA Convention. This session was developed by, and presenter invited by, SIG 6: Hearing and Hearing Disorders: Research and Diagnostics.
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Format(s):
eWorkshop
Listening effort is the allocation of mental resources to overcome obstacles in goal pursuit while listening. Sustained increased effort has important developmental implications. Factors that increase access to acoustic cues can reduce listening effort. This presentation addresses the measurement of listening effort, in addition to how language and auditory input affect effort in children who are hard of hearing.
This course was presented and recorded at the 2019 ASHA Convention. The session was developed by, and presenters invited by, Hearing and Vestibular - Assessment and Intervention: Pediatric and Listening, Language, and Speech in Children who are Deaf and Hard of Hearing.
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Format(s):
eWorkshop
The quality of online medical information can conflict with evidence-based research. Tinnitus is a target for misinformation and bogus treatments due to its prevalence and lack of objective treatments. This presentation discusses a study that assessed how people with and without tinnitus respond to online misinformation regarding tinnitus and determined whether a counseling session regarding causes and management of tinnitus affected susceptibility to misinformation.
This course was presented and recorded at the 2019 ASHA Convention.
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Format(s):
eWorkshop
Children and adults who use cochlear implants and have additional exceptionalities present challenges in diagnostic testing and therapeutic intervention for speech-language pathologists and audiologists. This session reviews current research on communication and quality of life in this population, while also highlighting real-world clinical practices in assessing, treating, and defining success in these patients.
This course was presented and recorded at the 2019 ASHA Convention. The session was developed by, and presenters invited by, Audiology Implantables.
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Format(s):
eWorkshop
Recent studies have implicated fatigue as an important consequence of listening effort, but the impact of fatigue on children is poorly understood. One problem is the lack of a measure of listening-related fatigue. In this presentation, the presenters (1) introduce the construct of listening-related fatigue, and (2) describe the development and validation of the Vanderbilt Fatigue Scale designed to quantify listening-related fatigue. This course was presented and recorded at the 2019 ASHA Convention.
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Format(s):
eWorkshop
Despite advances in hearing technology and intervention, language, academic, and social outcomes in children with hearing loss generally lag behind those of their hearing counterparts. Providing differential diagnoses is challenging, given the cascading effects of auditory deprivation language delays. This presentation identifies commonly occurring comorbid presentations in children with hearing loss and describes the process of effectively making differential diagnoses.
This course was presented and recorded at the 2019 ASHA Convention.
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Format(s):
eWorkshop
This presentation provides an overview of the clinical use of bone conduction hearing devices across the life span. It includes information about clinically available devices, guidelines related to non-surgical and surgical options, and pediatric and adult case studies. The presenters highlight key components of patient assessment, candidacy criteria, and device fitting.
This course was presented and recorded at the 2019 ASHA Convention. The session was developed by, and presenters invited by, Hearing and Vestibular - Assessment and Intervention: Pediatric, Audiology Implantables, and Hearing, Vestibular, Tinnitus: Assessment and Intervention: Adult.
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Format(s):
On Demand Webinar
This on demand webinar (available beginning December 5, 2020) will provide practical, evidence-based strategies that target the psychological, emotional, and social domains of stuttering (the lower, underwater mass of the iceberg) to help clients progress from tendencies of avoidance to acceptance and openness. The speakers will discuss how to integrate basic interpersonal counseling strategies into person-centered treatment and then will guide attendees through creating acceptance-based holistic goals and objectives and documenting progress.
New!
Format(s):
On Demand Webinar
This on demand webinar explores how telepractice (also known as telespeech, teleaudiology, and telehealth) is revolutionizing clinical care and describe how ethical principles can inform and inspire exemplary telepractice that serves to improve the quality of life for individuals with communication disorders. The presenter shares clinical scenarios that present the fundamentals of telepractice, with a focus on the guiding principles in the ASHA Code of Ethics. The webinar discusses lawful practice, ethical communication, and upholding client well-being.
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Format(s):
On Demand Webinar
This on demand webinar (available beginning November 6, 2020) will address situations across practice settings that could present ethical dilemmas, including client abandonment, billing, conflicts of interest, confidentiality, employer demands, and professional or product misrepresentation. The presenter will provide strategies to help professionals determine if an ethical dilemma exists, what course(s) of action one might take, and steps one might consider in an effort to avoid such situations in the future.
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Format(s):
On Demand Webinar
This on demand webinar examines the continuum of picky eating and explores reasons why children become “picky” across several developmental domains. The speaker focuses on the oral motor and sensory skills necessary for transitioning from liquids to puree, meltable, and eventually textured table foods within the first year of life. The webinar presents strategies to enable SLPs to identify and treat skill deficits and ultimately decrease the likelihood of a child being labelled as having a “behavioral feeding disorder.”
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Format(s):
On Demand Webinar
This on demand webinar focuses on how to identify strengths and weaknesses in written language samples by conducting written transcription analyses. The speaker discusses how to assess written language skills of children and adolescents with developmental language disorders at the word, sentence, and discourse levels. The speaker also highlights how to observe and identify the cognitive, linguistic, and motor skills that need improvement for a student to engage successfully in the writing process.
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Format(s):
On Demand Webinar
This on demand webinar (available beginning July 17, 2020) will present an organizational framework for planning AAC intervention that maximizes communication for children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The course will present strategies to support children with ASD and their communication partners, including clinicians, parents, and teachers. The speaker will define the “mask of attention” for children with ASD; discuss factors that contribute to the challenge of looking behind this mask to increase communication; and demonstrate how to plan and organize a goal-driven AAC intervention session.
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Format(s):
On Demand Webinar
This on demand webinar (available beginning December 4, 2020) will discuss and demonstrate interactive whiteboard technologies as an exciting and impactful way to provide meaningful intervention experiences to school-age children and adolescents. The speaker will share creative ideas and specific examples on how to use Promethean and Smart boards in a fun and functional manner.
New!
Format(s):
On Demand Webinar
This on demand webinar (available beginning October 23, 2020) will discuss identification of and intervention for dyslexia, focusing on the critical role the SLP plays on the school-based literacy team. The speaker will dispel myths about dyslexia diagnosis and treatment, discuss how to apply criteria to identify dyslexia in the context of other disorders, and identify evidence-based practices for treating children with dyslexia.
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Format(s):
On Demand Webinar
This on demand webinar (available beginning January 31, 2020) will describe how to effectively implement the latest coding and compliance requirements for SLP billing, including the new cognitive intervention procedure codes. Speakers will differentiate health care payer sources, payment systems, and sites of service (i.e., Medicaid; Medicare Parts A, B, and C; and private insurance) to help SLPs navigate billing and compliance issues.
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Format(s):
On Demand Webinar
This on demand webinar (available beginning September 18, 2020) will discuss the core elements of the writing process to inform SLPs’ work with school-age children and adolescents with and without developmental language disorders. The speaker will highlight theoretical frameworks and current research that speak to the acquisition and improvement of cognitive, linguistic, and motor skills that are required for writing.
This is a companion webinar to the “Fundamentals of Assessing Writing Samples” webinar.
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Format(s):
On Demand Webinar
This on demand webinar identifies and discusses specific early pre-verbal, verbal, and social features of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and common co-occurring factors. The speaker explains the importance of differential diagnosis of ASD – including the role of the SLP in the process – and discusses ASD-specific assessments and best practice evaluation methods.
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Format(s):
On Demand Webinar
This on demand webinar (available beginning March 6, 2020) will discuss correct coding of diagnoses and procedures to maximize coverage and payment for audiology services. The presenters will discuss new CPT and ICD codes for 2020 and share practical clinical examples that illustrate key coding, billing, and coverage concepts.
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