Addressing Speech/Language Needs of School Children with CAS

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​Margaret Fish, M.S., CCC-SLP

Saturday, September 17, 2016

• ​9:00  – 9:30 AM:  Registration/Business Meeting
• 9:30 AM – 12:45 PM:  Presentation (Including 15 Minute Break)

​Northwestern University Center for Audiology, Speech, Language, and Learning,
2315 Campus Drive, Evanston, IL 60208

Harmony Leiran ([email protected]), RSVP by 9/14/2016

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​Program:

​This session will focus on ways to help facilitate speech/language skills of school-age children with CAS who continue to struggle with prosody, voicing errors, and complex phoneme sequences, and how to refine clinical skills by modifying 4 treatment variables in real time during treatment sessions.

​Time Ordered Agenda:

Time	Agenda
9:30a-9:45a	Ongoing communication challenges of school-age children with CAS
9:45-10:30a	​Addressing prosody
10:30-10:45a	Addressing voicing errors
10:45-11:00a	Break
11:00-11:45a	Addressing challenges with complex phoneme sequences and sound/syllable omissions
11:45a-12:30p	Ways to keep children with complex motor speech disorders working at their optimum challenge point.
12:30-12:45p	Questions and Answers
12:45p	​Adjourn

Objectives:

​Following this presentation, participants will be able to: 

1. describe at least two strategies to address ongoing challenges in each of these areas: prosody, voicing errors, production of complex phoneme sequences.
2. list at least five ways to facilitate generalization of speech skills outside the therapy setting.
3. explain the importance of moving from cues that are more salient (visual, auditory, tactile) to cues that are less salient (metacognitive) in treatment.
4. list four teaching variables that can be manipulated from moment-to-moment during treatment to keep children working at their optimum challenge point.

About our Speaker:

​Margaret is a speech-language pathologist working in private practice in Highland Park, Illinois, with over 30 years’ experience as a pediatric SLP. Her primary professional interests are in the areas of children’s speech sound disorders, language disorders, and social language development. Margaret is the author of the book, Here’s How to Treat Childhood Apraxia of Speech, now in its Second Edition. She is a frequently invited speaker at local, state and national workshops. Her workshops and writing focus on providing practical, evidence-based ideas to support clinicians working with children with CAS. Margaret serves on the Professional Advisory Board for CASANA.

This course is offered for .3 ASHA CEUs (professional area, intermediate level). Available for partial Credit: N

An annual ASHA CE Registry fee is required to register ASHA CEUs. ASHA CE Registry fees are paid directly to the ASHA National Office. To register CEUs with ASHA, you must complete a CE participant form, turn it in at the time of the activity, and pay the ASHA CE Registry fee. ASHA CEUs are awarded ONLY AFTER receipt of the CE Participant Form AND payment of the Registry fee. 

Disclosures:

​Financial- Margaret Fish will receive a speaking fee for this Program.  She also receives royalties from Plural Publishing.
Non-Financial- Margaret Fish serves on the professional advisory board of the Childhood Apraxia of Speech Association of North America (CASANA).