Short Courses are ticketed with an additional fee for attendance. Tickets can be purchased on the convention registration form.
* Discounted Special Interest Division Short Courses - If you belong to any Special Interest Division, you can register for specific Division Short Courses at half price. If you would like to join a Special Interest Division, call ASHA's Action Center at 1-800-498-2071.
Thursday, November 18
Session Number & Title: SC01 - PoLo: A Model to Design Academic, Clinical, and Service Programs
Presentation Time: TH 8:00am - 11:00am
Location & Room: Loews Philadelphia Hotel, Commonwealth BC
Authors: Stephen Farmer, Connie Stout, & Michael Kimbarow, New Mexico St U, Las Cruces
The Profile of Learning Outcomes provides a model for facilitating the development of functional knowledge and skills in students/teachers, supervisees/supervisors, and clients/clinicians. This occurs in a seamless transition from classroom through clinic to worksites. PoLO reflects innovations in higher education and offers a viable alternative to KASA documentation.
Session Number & Title: *SC02 - NCLB: Its Impact on Our Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students
Presentation Time: TH 8:00am - 11:00am
Location & Room: Loews Philadelphia Hotel, Commonwealth A
Authors: Catherine Crowley, Teachers College Columbia U, New York; Donna Valenti, Long Island University-Brooklyn, NY
Co-sponsored by Special Interest Division 16: School-Based Issues and Special Interest Division 14: Communication Disorders and Sciences in Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Populations. This short course focuses on No Child Left Behind's impact on the role of SLPs who provide services to CLD students. Particular focus is given to identification and curriculum-based intervention for NCLB's racial-minority and limited English proficiency subgroups. Legal, clinical, and practical perspectives are provided.
Session Number & Title: SC03 - Sorting Out Processing Disorders-Auditory or Language?
Presentation Time: TH 8:00am - 11:00am
Location & Room: Loews Philadelphia Hotel, Millennium Hall
Authors: Teri James Bellis, U of South Dakota, Vermillion; Gail J. Richard, Eastern Illinois U, Charleston
Co-sponsored by the Convention Program Committee and Special Interest Division 16: School-Based Issues. Professionals are constantly challenged to evaluate and treat processing disorders. Audiologists diagnose auditory processing disorders, while speech-language pathologists diagnose language processing disorders. The overlap can result in "hit-and-miss" treatment. This session will present a continuum for processing disorders to help practitioners differentiate between processing disorders and design effective intervention.
Session Number & Title: *SC04 - Electrical Stimulation for Restoring Swallowing Function
Presentation Time: TH 8:00am - 11:00am
Location & Room: Loews Philadelphia Hotel, Commonwealth D
Authors: Milos Popovic, Rehab Engineering Lab, Toronto
Sponsored by Special Interest Division 13: Swallowing and Swallowing Disorders. Electrical stimulators (neuroprostheses) have been developed for a variety of applications (e.g., cochlear implants). Electrical stimulation for swallowing rehabilitation currently lacks a sound scientific foundation. Preliminary studies have examined its feasibility, but results are suggestive at best. This course will review basic principles and evidence regarding e-stim for dysphagia.
Session Number & Title: *SC05 - The Upper Airway: When Adult Voice and Swallowing Issues Overlap
Presentation Time: TH 8:00am - 11:00am
Location & Room: Loews Philadelphia Hotel, Congress BC
Authors: Lisa N. Kelchner, Dept of Comm Sci and Dis, Dayton OH; Joseph Stemple, Blaine Block Inst for Voice Analysis and Rehab, Dayton OH; Anne McGrail, Miami Valley Hosp, Springboro OH; Kathy Groves Wright, Cincinnati VA Med Cntr; Bernice Klaben, Blaine Block Inst for Voice Analysis and Rehab, Dayton OH
Sponsored by Special Interest Division 3: Voice and Voice Disorders. This Short Course will use a case-based approach to describe common and divergent indicators of voice and swallowing disorders, including differential diagnosis of structural, neurological, and systemic etiologies and specific combined approaches to clinical evaluation and treatment of upper airway problems.
Session Number & Title: SC06 - Phonological Intervention: It's About Time
Presentation Time: TH 1:00pm - 4:00pm
Location & Room: Loews Philadelphia Hotel, Millennium Hall
Authors: Lynn Williams, East Tennessee St U, Johnson City; Ken Bleile, U of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls
A major challenge facing SLPs is time: Time to provide treatment efficiently, to keep pace with advances in phonological theory, and to juggle demands of caseloads of children with different severity levels. In this short course, presenters describe two approaches to treating children with speech disorders in a timely manner.
Session Number & Title: *SC07 - Acceptance of Hearings Aids and ALD: Counseling Children, Parents, Teachers
Presentation Time: TH 1:00pm -4:00pm
Location & Room: Loews Philadelphia Hotel, Commonwealth A
Authors: Melody Harrison, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Susan Brannen, Monroe 2 BOCES, Spencerport NY; Rebecca Kooper, Nassau BOCES Hrng Services, Levittown NY
Co-sponsored by Special Interest Division 7: Aural Rehabilitation and Its Instrumentation and Special Interest Division 16: School-Based Issues. Audiologists and SLPs working with children with hearing impairments must be prepared to counsel the children and their families regarding psychosocial issues related to acceptance of hearing aids and ALD. This session will focus on identifying counseling needs and developing strategies from birth to high school.
Session Number & Title: *SC08 - Write NOW: Incorporate Writing Assignments and Still Have a Life
Presentation Time: TH 1:00pm -4:00pm
Location & Room: Loews Philadelphia Hotel, Commonwealth BC
Authors: Shelley B. Brundage & Geralyn M. Schulz, George Washington U, Washington DC
This interactive course, sponsored by Special Interest Division 10: Issues in Higher Education, presents reasons for including writing assignments in coursework, how to manage the workload involved, and practice with methods to increase grading efficiency and fairness. Professors' and students' roles and responsibilities will be described. Participants will receive an annotated list of resources on writing.
Session Number & Title: *SC09 - Habilitation and Its Relationship to Mapping Children With Cochlear Implants
Presentation Time: TH 1:00pm - 4:00pm
Location & Room: Loews Philadelphia Hotel, Congress BC
Authors: Pat Chute, Mercy Coll, Dobbs Ferry, NY; Mary Ellen Nevins, Children's Hrng Inst, New York
Sponsored by Special Interest Division 9: Hearing and Hearing Disorders in Childhood. Cochlear implants provide children with sound enabling them to develop spoken language in a more normal manner. To maximize use of the implant it must be continuously and properly programmed and the child must receive appropriate habilitation. This course will explore the relationship between these important components.
Session Number & Title: SC10 - Velopharyngeal Anatomy and Physiology: Effects on Speech and Resonance
Presentation Time: TH 1:00pm - 4:00pm
Location & Room: Loews Philadelphia Hotel, Commonwealth D
Authors: David Kuehn, U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; David Jones, U of Wyoming, Laramie; Karen J. Golding-Kushner, Velo-Cardio-Facial Synd Ed Fndn, Inc., Milltown NJ; Bonnie Smith, U of Illinois, Chicago
Sponsored by Special Interest Division 5: Speech Science and Orofacial Disorders: Normal velopharyngeal anatomy and physiology will be presented, using state-of-the-art information derived from dissection, histology, and magnetic resonance imaging. Anatomical and physiological causes of velopharyngeal dysfunction will be described. Case presentations will be used to emphasize the structural and functional underpinnings leading to speech and resonance disorders and treatment implications.
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Friday, November 19
Session Number & Title: *SC11 - Interventions to Build Communicative Competence With Individuals Who Require AAC
Presentation Time: FR 8:00am - 11:00am
Location & Room: Loews Philadelphia Hotel, Congress BC
Authors: Janice Light, Pennsylvania St U, State College
This Special Interest Division 12: Augmentative and Alternative Communication sponsored session discusses research-based practices enhancing communicative competence of individuals with significant communication disabilities. It considers interventions to build knowledge/judgment/skills in linguistic, operational, social, and strategic domains. The impact of psychosocial factors is discussed along with environmental barriers and supports. Current research is presented with implications for effective practices.
Session Number & Title: *SC12 - Doing The Right Thing: Making Sound Treatment Decisions in Eldercare
Presentation Time: FR 8:00am - 11:00am
Location & Room: Loews Philadelphia Hotel, Commonwealth A
Authors: Travis Threats, S Louis (MO) U; Kassie Witte, Hebrew Home for the Aged, Riverdale NY
Sponsored by Special Interest Division 15: Gerontology, this presentation provides clinicians with essential tools to address professional dilemmas in treatment decision making for the elderly. Content includes an ethical and quality-of-life framework, ASHA and WHO guidelines, regulations, and case presentations illustrating the decision process when needs and wishes of the client, family, and agency conflict.
Session Number & Title: SC13 - Interpreting the Results of Outcomes Research
Presentation Time: FR 8:00am - 11:00am
Location & Room: Loews Philadelphia Hotel, Congress A
Authors: George D. Allen, Michigan St U, East Lansing
Outcomes research is often described using terms like odds ratios and logistic regression, which are unfamiliar to many in the ASHA community. This short course will prepare attendees to read and understand the published results of outcomes research. It presumes an acquaintance with introductory statistics through correlation and analysis of variance.
Session Number & Title: *SC14 - From Evidence to Practice: Interventions for Children With Autism
Presentation Time: FR 8:00am - 11:00am
Location & Room: Loews Philadelphia Hotel, Commonwealth BC
Authors: Patricia Prelock, U of Vermont, Burlington
Sponsored by Special Interest Division 1: Language Learning and Education, this short course explores evidence-based interventions designed to support the communication and social interaction needs of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), including picture exchange, social stories, video modeling, peer mediation, priming, pivotal response training, and other self-management strategies. Examples and videotapes will be used.
Session Number & Title: SC15 - Pediatrics Primer! From Embryo-to-Infant: Developmental Biology of Feeding-Swallowing-Respiratory Systems
Presentation Time: FR 8:00am - 11:00am
Location & Room: Loews Philadelphia Hotel, Commonwealth D
Authors: Jeri L. Miller, Natl Inst of Hlth, Bethesda MD
This course introduces pediatric specialists to prenatal development of oral, pharyngeal, respiratory, and ingestive systems. From embryo-to-infant, normal anatomic and physiologic development will be compared to congenital malformations and genetic abnormalities influencing newborn feeding skills. Bench-to-bedside examples will underscore prenatal to postnatal challenges in providing services to high-risk neonatal populations.
Session Number & Title: SC16 - Negotiating Private Health Plan Coverage-A Process
Presentation Time: FR 1:00pm - 4:00pm
Location & Room: Loews Philadelphia Hotel, Congress A
Authors: Maureen Thompson & Steven White, ASHA, Rockville MD
Coverage rules and reimbursement rates are increasingly affecting access to and scope of services provided by audiologists and speech-language pathologists. This program will describe how to advocate and negotiate with private health plans for comprehensive coverage of and reasonable reimbursement rates for speech-language pathology and audiology services.
Session Number & Title: SC17 - Articulation Therapy for Children With Hearing Loss
Presentation Time: FR 1:00pm - 4:00pm
Location & Room: Loews Philadelphia Hotel, Congress BC
Authors: Elizabeth Wilkes, Deaf Ed and Hrng Sci, San Antonio TX
Participants will learn numerous strategies for eliciting accurate phoneme production from children with hearing loss. Capitalizing on cochlear implants and digital hearing aids to make speech audible will be emphasized. Motor speech facilitation or phonological processes as appropriate strategies will also be discussed.
Session Number & Title: SC18 - Clinical,Therapeutic, and Educational Approach for Deaf Children Using Cochlear Implants
Presentation Time: FR 1:00pm - 4:00pm
Location & Room: Loews Philadelphia Hotel, Commonwealth A
Authors: MaryKay Therres, Children's Hosp, Oakland CA; Adeline McClatchie, Aud Consult Svc, Orinda CA
The presenters will address the team criteria the for best use of cochlear implants in children. Based on clinical findings, projected outcomes will be discussed along with intervention strategies. The AUSPLAN tool for goal setting and measuring progress in the areas of auditory, speech/articulation, and language acquisition will be discussed.
Session Number & Title: SC19 - Classroom Performance Assessment: Practical Strategies for School Clinicians
Presentation Time: FR 1:00pm - 4:00pm
Location & Room: Loews Philadelphia Hotel, Commonwealth BC
Authors: Wayne Secord, U of Central Florida, Orlando
This program will showcase the process of classroom performance assessment and how it is used to design intervention programs that mirror classroom learning needs. It will show how to identify a student's classroom performance patterns and then connect these patterns meaningfully to state curriculum standards and IEP development.
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Saturday, November 20
Session Number & Title: *SC20 - Resolving Conflict: It's a Matter of Culture
Presentation Time: SA 8:00-11:00
Location & Room: Loews Philadelphia Hotel, Commonwealth D
Authors: Mel Cohen, Healthcare Management Workshops, Sparks NV
Sponsored by Special Interest Division 11: Administration and Supervision. Your skill at resolving conflicts that confront speech-language pathologists and audiologists will impact physical and emotional well-being and affect your professional effectiveness. Learn how to resolve conflict without feeling hurt, guilty, inadequate, worried, or anxious. You'll be strong, confident, and positive, and have higher self-esteem.
Session Number & Title: SC21 - Strategies for Providing Positive Behavioral Support for Young Children
Presentation Time: SA 8:00am - 11:00am
Location & Room: Loews Philadelphia Hotel, Commonwealth A
Authors: Joe Reichle, U of Minnesota, Burnsville; Kathryn Drager, Pennsylvania St U, University Park
Procedures and validating evidence for a range of positive behavioral support strategies for young children that include communicative alternatives to problem behavior will be described. Emphasis will be placed on designing multi-component support strategies derived from evidence-based assessment strategies. Case study examples will be provided.
Session Number & Title: SC22 - Developing Evidence-Based Language/Literacy Practices in Classrooms
Presentation Time: SA 8:00am - 11:00am
Location & Room: Loews Philadelphia Hotel, Millennium Hall
Authors: Carol Westby, Project BRIDGE/U of New Mexico, Albuquerque; Kelly Smyer, Albuquerque (NM) Pub Sch
This session is co-sponsored by the Specialty Board on Child Language and ASHA. Speech/language goals must be linked to curriculum benchmarks and intervention strategies should be evidence-based. Using upper-elementary school examples, presenters will describe: (1) language requirements of the curriculum; (2) classroom language facilitation strategies; (3) strategies for documenting effectiveness.
Session Number & Title: *SC23 - Aphasia Treatment Update: Traditions and New Directions
Presentation Time: SA 8:00am - 11:00am
Location & Room: Loews Philadelphia Hotel, Congress BC
Authors: Anastasia Raymer, Old Dominion U, Virginia Beach VA; Leonard Lapointe, Florida St U, Tallahassee; Roberta Elman, Aphasia Cntr of California, Oakland; Adrienne Blanchard, Florida St U, Tallahassee
Sponsored by Special Interest Division 2: Neurophysiology and Neurogenic Speech and Language Disorders. After reviewing historic perspectives on aphasia treatment, we will discuss recent trends in aphasia treatment, influenced by the International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health. We will review aphasia treatment approaches that address word retrieval functions, life participation, and caregiver involvement, consistent with the ICF model.
Session Number & Title: SC24 - The Fundamentals of Voice Therapy for the General Practice Clinician
Presentation Time: SA 8:00am - 11:00am
Location & Room: Loews Philadelphia Hotel, Commonwealth BC
Authors: Marina Gilman, Bastian Voice Inst, Chicago
This course will present the most common voice disorders confronted by general practice speech-language pathologists, such as mucosal tissue injuries caused by vocal overuse, non-mucosal lesions including bowing and MTD, paradoxical vocal fold dysfunction, and spasmodic dysphonia. Central will be a series of techniques for non-instrumental assessment and treatment.
Session Number & Title: *SC25 - Building Effective Tools in Stuttering Therapy: Activities That Really "Rock"
Presentation Time: SA 1:00pm -4:00pm
Location & Room: Loews Philadelphia Hotel, Commonwealth BC
Authors: Gary Rentschler, Duquesne U, Pittsburgh
Sponsored by Special Interest Division 4: Fluency and Fluency Disorders, this course provides a myriad of stuttering therapy activities that integrate learning principles, clinician philosophy, and client needs. These activities challenge clients to form new perceptions, push their comfort zones, build coping skills, while fostering success and energizing the clinician. Come prepared to share and compare!
Session Number & Title: *SC26 - Teaching Children About Noise and Hearing Loss Prevention; Dangerous Decibels™
Presentation Time: SA 1:00pm - 4:00pm
Location & Room: Loews Philadelphia Hotel, Commonwealth D
Authors: Ted Madison, 3M Company, S Paul MN; Deanna Meinke, U of Colorado-Boulder, Greeley; William H. Martin, Oregon Hlth & Sci U, Portland
Co-sponsored by ASHA Special Interest Divisions 6: Hearing and Hearing Disorders: Research and Diagnostics, 7: Aural Rehabilitation and Its Instrumentation, 8: Hearing Conservation and Occupational Audiology, 9: Hearing and Hearing Disorders in Childhood, and 16: School-Based Issues, the National Hearing Conservation Association, and Dangerous Decibels; a public health partnership to prevent noise-induced hearing loss. Participants learn fun and effective techniques for teaching school children the danger of loud noise and the importance of hearing protection.
Session Number & Title: SC27 - Exploring Non-Traditional Roles of the SLP: Treating Children With Autism
Presentation Time: SA 1:00pm - 4:00pm
Location & Room: Loews Philadelphia Hotel, Commonwealth A
Authors: Leslie Grubler, Autism Intervention Consult Assoc, Bayside NY
Boxes limit, vision liberates. This course will provide creative analysis of the non-traditional roles of the SLP, inspire empowerment and adequacy assessment in exercising expertise, and engender confidence in treating children with autism. Through self-reflection, it will enable stepping out of the box, child progress, and, ultimately, professional fulfillment.
Session Number & Title: SC28 - Comparison of Three Treatment Approaches for Childhood Apraxia of Speech
Presentation Time: SA 1:00pm - 4:00pm
Location & Room: Loews Philadelphia Hotel, Millennium Hall
Authors: Edythe Strand, Mayo Clinic, Rochester MN; Shelley Velleman, U of Massachusetts, Amherst; Deborah Hayden, Prompt Inst Santa Fe NM
This short course compares three different treatment approaches for childhood apraxia of speech (CAS). The authors present the theoretical framework contributing to the rationale for each approach, describe the major parameters of the treatment, and present outcome data. Video demonstrations are included. Discussion focuses on clinical decision making.
Session Number & Title: *SC29 - Otoacoustic Emissions: How Did We Get Here? Research!
Presentation Time: SA 1:00pm -4:00pm
Location & Room: Loews Philadelphia Hotel, Congress BC
Authors: Brenda Lonsbury-Martin, ASHA, Rockville MD
Sponsored by Special Interest Division 6: Hearing and Hearing Disorders: Research and Diagnostics. One goal of this session is to summarize the knowledge base on otoacoustic emissions (OAEs) that has contributed to our understanding of the role of the peripheral ear in the hearing process. Further discussion will review recent findings that have the promise of beneficially impacting OAE applications in clinical settings.
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