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Equipment or Operator: Assessment of Velopharyngeal Function and Cleft Palate Speech Disorders

Course: #5150Level: Introductory 1 Hour 41 Reviews

This course will detail aspects of a speech and language evaluation for a child who presents with cleft palate and/or velopharyngeal dysfunction. Specific aspects of the oral-facial examination, specific speech characteristics, and techniques for the evaluation will be emphasized. Methods for determining whether the speech disorder is structurally- based, functionally-based, or both, will be addressed.

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Learning Outcomes

  • checkmarkAfter this course, participants will be able to identify speech characteristics of children with repaired cleft palate and/or velopharyngeal dysfunction.
  • checkmarkAfter this course, participants will be able to list which types of speech characteristics of children with repaired cleft palate and/or velopharyngeal dysfunction are related to structural versus functional issues.
  • checkmarkAfter this course, participants will be able to describe assessment procedures to identify speech characteristics of children with repaired cleft palate and/or velopharyngeal dysfunction.
  • checkmarkAfter this course, participants will be able to list treatment recommendations or additional assessment methods based on specific results from assessment of speech and screening of velopharyngeal function.

Agenda

0-10 Minutes Overview of types of clefts/early speech and language development in children with clefts
10-30 Minutes Speech characteristics of children with repaired clefts (VPI/VPD, resonance disorders, compensatory articulation)
30-50 Minutes Assessment techniques
50-55 Minutes Intervention Decision Tree (making decisions regarding where to begin treatment based on assessment results)
55-60 Minutes Conclusion; Q&A

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American Speech-Language-Hearing Assn.

American Speech-Language-Hearing Assn.

Introductory Level
0.1 ASHA CEUs


Speech-Language and Audiology Canada

Speech-Language and Audiology Canada

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