The North Suburban Speech and Language Association (NSSLA) a recognized area group of the Illinois Speech Language-Hearing Association presents:

​Playing Around: Growing Language and Academic Skills in Play

Presenter(s):	Judith O. Roman, SLPD, CCC-SLP
​When:	​Wednesday, April 6, 2022
​​Where:	Virtual Zoom Presentation
​​​Reservations:	Bonnie Nield ([email protected]). **RSVP by Monday, April 4** Login information will be sent after RSVPs are received. Due to pre-registration processing, late RSVPs will not be accepted. The handout will be posted online prior to the meeting.
​​Program:	Young children’s language skills and play skills grow simultaneously and reinforce each other. This talk will describe ways language therapy could be supported by play, ways play could develop growth in language, and ways of encouraging play skills that support later academic abilities.

Agenda:

Time	Agenda
6:00	Registration and business meeting
6:30	Introduction of Judy and description NUCASLL & our services
6:40	Description of the stages of play, why assessment of play is complicated
6:50	The growth of language skills in the context of play vocabulary, story grammar, perspective-taking, practicing dialogue, theory of mind
7:10	Facilitating emergent literacy through play
7:25	Using play to build academic skills explaining/describing, comparing contrasting, evaluating ideas/forming opinions, inference-making and predicting, creating reports (book reports, lab reports, social studies reports), creating alternate endings in essays, forming creative solutions to problems
8:10	Where to find more information
8:15	Questions/areas for more conversation
8:30	Thank you

Learning Objectives

The participants will:

1. Describe seven types and stages of play that can be observable in language therapy
2. Describe three critical features of play at each age and stage of play
3. Describe five ways language skills can be targeted within varying ages and stages of play
4. List 10 ways to build emergent literacy skills during play
5. Describe seven ways that language embedded in the play of younger children facilitates wide-ranging academic abilities.

This program is offered for .2 ASHA CEUs (Intermediate level

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.

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Disclosures

​Financial: Judith Roman receives a salary from Northwestern University.
Nonfinancial: Judith Roman does not have any relevant nonfinancial relationships.
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Disclaimer:

NSSLA is not responsible for the professional practices of any members or attendees as our meetings are solely informational workshops, not certificated educational or training programs.

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About Our Speaker

Judith O. Roman, SLPD, CCC-SLP

Judy Roman is a clinical faculty member at Northwestern University, where she maintains a clinical caseload while educating graduate student clinicians. She teaches both in-person undergraduate and online post-Baccalaureate phonetics courses.  She holds ASHA board certification in child language, specializing in language disorders with toddlers through early-school aged children. She earned her SLPD degree, which included meta-analysis research on the relationship between developmental language disorders and motor skills; and research related to facilitating graduate student observation skills.  She completed a fellowship year at NU on teaching and learning, with a final project focus on redefining mid-term grading for graduate student clinicians.  She currently is participating in a year-long ASHA CSD science teaching symposium series.  Judy’s favorite parts of most days are finding fabulous and funny anecdotes from everyone she has the privilege of spending time with!