Advanced-level Convention programs offer you the opportunity for a higher level of instruction in a variety of subject areas. These sessions are for experienced Speech-Language Pathologists and Audiologists who have been in the professions for ten plus years. Presenters have submitted pre-requisite readings, handouts, and information to help you get the most out of these sessions.
Course Listing
SC06 l SC23 l CL06 l 705 l 854 l 979 l 1016 l 1076 l 1103 l 1154 l 1172 l 1183 l 1186
Session Number & Title: SC06 - Management of Neurogenic Dysphagia
Presentation Time: Thursday, Nov 13 2003 9:00AM - 12:00PM
Topic: Swallowing and Swallowing Disorders
Authors: Jeri Logemann, Karen Dikeman, Gary Gramigna, Jacqueline Hind, Marta Kazandjian, Lisa Kelchner, Steven Kosek, Donna Lundy, Susan McGarvey-Toler, Carrie Stangl
This short course focuses on patients with neurogenic dysphagia and their management. Cases will be presented with videofluoroscopic examples of swallow, other background information, therapy plan and outcome.
NOTE: This is part of a workshop at ASHA and does not cover all aspects of Neurogenic Dysphagia.
Session Number & Title: SC23 - How to Avoid Due Process; But If You Must...
Presentation Time: Friday, Nov 14 2003 2:00PM - 5:00PM
Topic: Administrative, Management, and Regulatory Issues
Authors: Barbara Moore-Brown, Roberta Kreb, Beth Nishida
Due process hearings are costly emotionally and fiscally. School-based clinicians play significant roles in both the process and outcomes of hearings. This session provides comprehensive information and strategies from the perspectives of district directors and a hearing officer. If you work in schools, you should attend this session!
Session Number & Title: CL06 - Computerized Phonological Assessment & Intervention: Keep Up With the Kids
Presentation Time: Friday, Nov 14 2003 1:00PM - 3:00PM
Topic: Phonological and Articulatory Processes in Children
Authors: Barbara Bernhardt, Julie Masterson
Clinicians struggle to balance the desire to conduct comprehensive assessments with the requirements of serving a large caseload. We will show you how to use Computerized Articulation and Phonology Evaluation System (CAPES) to administer a single-word inventory tailored to the developmental level of the child, perform desired analyses, and view recommended treatment goals. Use of a second software package, Picture Gallery, to address those goals will be illustrated.
Session Number & Title: 705 - Dialogical Approach to Language & Literacy
Presentation Time: Thursday, Nov 13 2003 8:30AM - 10:00AM
Topic: Language Disorders in Adults
Authors: Fran Hagstrom, Joseph Agan
This theoretical discussion of language and literacy functionality following traumatic head injury presents a functional individual systems approach for understanding how the individual must be conceptualized by means of the cultural tools used in social action. Dialogical minidramas are used to elaborate the clinical utility of the framework.
Session Number & Title: 854 - Processing vs Linguistic Clinical Markers in Young Children With SLI
Presentation Time: Friday, Nov 14 2003 8:30AM - 10:00AM
Topic: Language in Infants, Toddlers, and Preschoolers
Authors: Gina Conti-Ramsden
Thirty-two five year-old children with specific language impairment (SLI) and 32 chronological age (CA) controls completed four tasks that were considered potential positive markers for SLI. Performance on two linguistic tasks (past tense and noun plurals) and two processing tasks (nonword repetition and digit recall) was compared. The children with SLI performed significantly worse than the CA controls in all four tasks. Nonword repetition and past tense marking were found to be the best markers for identifying young children with SLI.
Session Number & Title: 979 - Beyond Verbal Processing: Working Memory Constraints in Children With SLI
Presentation Time: Saturday, Nov 15 2003 8:30AM - 10:00AM
Topic: Language Science
Authors: LaVae Hoffman, Ronald Gillam
Information processing limitations that underlie SLI were investigated using a dual-processing paradigm. School-age children with and without SLI were asked to recall stimuli in situations that varied the number and type of tasks as well as stimuli rate. Compared to their typically developing peers, children with SLI had poorer recall of spatial and verbal information. Information processing in children with SLI appears to be synergistically constrained by limitations in general cognitive capacity and central executive functions in working memory.
Session Number & Title: 1016 - Novel Tests of Speech, Audition, & Mechanoreception in Parkinson's Disease
Presentation Time: Thursday, Nov 13 2003 5:15PM - 5:30PM
Topic: Motor Speech in Adults and Children
Authors: Amitava Biswas, Karen Forrest
An analytic algorithm to assess acoustic waveforms of hypokinetic speech was developed with high sensitivity and specificity to articulatory maneuvers. Labial mechanosensory thresholds were assessed by a custom-built robot that applied and retracted the probes, recorded responses, and automatically delivered spoken feedbacks to the subject. The Tests of Basic Auditory Capability (TBAC) was administered to assess sensory processing in the auditory modality. A computational model of sensorimotor integration was evaluated for a theoretical explanation of the test results.
Session Number & Title: 1076 - Development of Phonological Awareness in Children With Speech Delay
Presentation Time: Friday, Nov 14 2003 11:00AM - 1:00PM
Topic: Phonological and Articulatory Processes in Children
Authors: Susan Rvachew
This session, sponsored by the Convention Program Committee, reports research findings of a longitudinal study of phonological awareness development in children with speech delay. Results to date include: children with speech delay demonstrated poorer phonemic awareness skills than their normally developing peers; phonological awareness was correlated with phonemic perception and receptive vocabulary; and training with a speech perception task facilitated articulation learning but had no impact on phonological awareness skills. (Funding, Canadian Language and Literacy Research Network)
Session Number & Title: 1103 - A Cognitive Phonological Account of a Child With Unintelligible Speech
Presentation Time: Saturday, Nov 15 2003 11:00AM - 12:00PM
Topic: Phonological and Articulatory Processes in Children
Authors: Martin Ball
Cognitive phonology, coupled with gestural phonology, provides descriptive as well as explanatory accounts of disordered speech, and has specific implications for approaches to treatment. The session presents a case study of child with unintelligible speech, where the insights of cognitive phonology provide an explanation for and a description of her speech behaviours.
Session Number & Title: 1154 - Prenatal Respiratory/Ingestive Development: A NICU Dysphagia Specialist Primer
Presentation Time: Thursday, Nov 13 2003 8:00AM - 10:00AM
Topic: Swallowing and Swallowing Disorders
Authors: Jeri Miller
This session, sponsored by Special Interest Division 13: Swallowing and Swallowing Disorders (Dysphagia) and the Convention Program Committee, is designed for pediatric specialists working with premature medically fragile infants. Attendees will hear the latest research on prenatal respiratory-swallowing development and how this information may guide neonatal testing and intervention. New 3D-4D ultrasound images detecting normal/abnormal function are presented with prenatal-neonatal data highlighting the impact of growth restriction, congenital anomaly, and structural deficits on newborn feeding skills. A bench-to-bedside discussion of clinical/research challenges in NICU is emphasized.
Session Number & Title: 1172 - Swallowing Skills of Older Patients on Mechanical Ventilation
Presentation Time: Thursday, Nov 13 2003 3:30PM - 5:00PM
Topic: Swallowing and Swallowing Disorders
Authors:
Lori Davis, Suzanne Stanton
This retrospective study of the swallowing characteristics of elderly patients with mechanical ventilation in long-term acute-care compared clinical and MBS evaluations of 58 patients. Parametric and nonparametric statistics were used to determine differences between the evaluations and associations between aspiration and demographics, pharyngeal symptoms, and cognitive deficits. Significant differences were found between diet recommendations pre- and post-MBS, and significant associations were found between aspiration and three pharyngeal symptoms.
Session Number & Title: 1183 - Strategies to Support Breastfeeding in the NICU
Presentation Time: Thursday, Nov 13 2003 4:00PM - 6:00PM
Topic: Swallowing and Swallowing Disorders
Authors: Jennifer Rickard
The American Academy of Pediatrics recognizes breastmilk feedings as “uniquely superior” to formula feedings for the preterm infant. This session discusses the benefits of breastmilk for the medically fragile infant, and barriers to breastfeeding that exist in the NICU. Strategies to promote the transition from breastmilk feedings to breastfeeding will be outlined.
Session Number & Title: 1186 - Neurobiological Model of Feeding With Implications for Oral Development
Presentation Time: Thursday, Nov 13 2003 4:45PM - 5:00PM
Topic: Swallowing and Swallowing Disorders
Authors: Juliet Haarbauer-Krupa
This session describes a model of the neural systems involved in the hunger-satiation process and how these have potential for alteration due to early disruption of the oral phase of feeding and gastrointestinal disturbances. Discussion of the neurobiology of feeding will be offered with evidence from special populations concerning the effects of early oral motor and gastrointestinal difficulties on the development of neural feedback loops for hunger and satiation. Implications for oral development and oral motor treatment will be discussed.
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