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Understanding the OASIS-C: An Overview for SLPs
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February 2, 2016
Home care is in the top five industries for speech- language pathologists. Home care also offers the highest wage for a speech-language pathologist and has the highest concentration of SLPs. These sta... Read More
Compliance and Regulatory Documentation and Reimbursement Veterans Affairs (VA) courses
Temperament and Childhood Stuttering: Theory, evidence, and clinical practice
January 29, 2016
Temperament: DefinedWhat is temperament? There are as many different definitions of temperament as there are with stuttering. Rothbart defines temperament as “individual differences in emotional, mo... Read More
Fluency, Atypical Disfluency, and Stuttering
Ethical Issues in Dysphagia Management
January 18, 2016
When I was a new clinician in the early 1990s, I worked in a hospital setting and was very interested in the care of individuals who had swallowing problems. I was fortunate to be in a great setting d... Read More
Dysphagia (Adult) Ethics Veterans Affairs (VA) courses
Understanding Alignment and Evidence-Based Strategies for Teaching Students with Moderate-to-Severe Disabilities
January 14, 2016
Our learning objectives are that you will be able to describe the major elements of universal design for learning, identify specific strategies such as systemic instruction or self-determination to de... Read More
AAC Developmental Language Disorders School-Based Intervention and Collaboration
Utilizing ABA in Dementia Management, Part 2: ABA Principles and Treatment Techniques
January 6, 2016
Dr. Mary Beth Mason-Baughman: Today, we are going to talk about the principles of applied behavioral analysis (ABA) and specific treatment techniques that can be used for behaviors that typically seen... Read More
Veterans Affairs (VA) courses
Adolescents with Autism: Writing for Success!
January 4, 2016
When we begin to consider how to help an adolescent with autism to learn to write, it is important to think about why writing is so difficult. I think we could sum it up with the point that it require... Read More
Developmental Language Disorders School-Based Intervention and Collaboration
Pearson's EBP Briefs: Evaluating Group Therapy for Aphasia: What is the Evidence?
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December 31, 2015
Olivia is an experienced speech-language pathologist (SLP), managing a mixed inpatient subacute rehabilitation caseload as well as a community based caseload for adults requiring speech pathology serv... Read More
Aphasia Veterans Affairs (VA) courses
Utilizing ABA in Dementia Management, Part 1: Dementia Types and Evidence-Based Practices
December 29, 2015
Let’s start with an overview of the dementia types. Alzheimer’s is the most prevalent form of dementia. Vascular dementia is typically always listed in the top three. I included frontotemporal deg... Read More
Vanderbilt SLP Journal Club, Hypokinetic Dysarthria in Parkinson's Disease: Current Insights and Clinical Implications
December 9, 2015
I assume that many of you are familiar with hypokinetic dysarthria. The prominent speech characteristics, as described Darley, Aronson, and Brown (1969) a long time ago, include reduced vocal loudness... Read More
Dysarthria Veterans Affairs (VA) courses
Pearson's EBP Briefs: Evidence-Based Intervention Options for Chronic Dysphagia Following Lateral Medullary Stroke
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December 8, 2015
Marianne is a 40-year-old female who went to the emergency ward with acute shortness of breath, following a few days of symptoms consistent with an upper respiratory tract infection. On arrival, she p... Read More
Dysphagia (Adult) Veterans Affairs (VA) courses
Pearson's EBP Briefs: Evidence-Based Decisions: Memory Intervention for Individuals with Mild Cognitive Impairment
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December 8, 2015
Anna is a new speech-language pathologist (SLP) who works with elderly adults in an inpatient skilled nursing facility (SNF). During the course of her evaluations, she often has individuals tell her t... Read More
A-Z: Assessment for Severe Phonological Disorders
November 5, 2015
There are many purposes in completing a speech sound system assessment. For our purposes today, we will focus on phonological disorders. However, part of that means that we have to engage in different... Read More
Articulation, Phonology, and Speech Sound Disorders
Integrating Apps into AphasiaTherapy: Using Technology to Support Therapy & Recovery
November 3, 2015
Today, we will be talking about integrating apps into aphasia therapy to learn how we can use technology to support therapy and to support recovery. We will be talking both about the SLP’s use of te... Read More
AAC Aphasia Veterans Affairs (VA) courses
Special Education Eligibility: When is a Speech-Language Impairment Also a Disability?
October 30, 2015
Just to refresh your memory, special education was created a long time ago now - 40 years ago - by a federal law previously called the Education for Handicapped Children Act (EHA) and is now called ID... Read More
Motor Speech Disorders (Adults) Articulation, Phonology, and Speech Sound Disorders Developmental Language Disorders Literacy Development and Phonological Awareness School-Based Intervention and Collaboration
Primary Progressive Apraxia of Speech and Aphasia in a Complex Case of Neurodegenerative Disease, presented in partnership with Rush University
October 29, 2015
Dr. Richard Peach: We are going to talk about a particular case to demonstrate what progressive apraxia of speech and aphasia looks like. As you will see, this case is very representative of what you... Read More
Aphasia Veterans Affairs (VA) courses
Parental Concerns and Pediatric Feeding Disorders: Putting it all Together
October 22, 2015
When I have a family contact me for a feeding evaluation or come in for the first time, I am looking for what I call the “ah-ha” moment. This is the pattern of deficits that go together based on w... Read More
Dysphagia (Adult)
Stuttering Treatment: Treating the Whole Disorder
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October 13, 2015
My role in this is to talk about stuttering from a big perspective. My goal today is to talk about the entire disorder of stuttering and how we can ensure that our work in stuttering is not limited on... Read More
Fluency, Atypical Disfluency, and Stuttering
Assessment and Treatment of School-Age Dual Language Learners with Language Disorders, presented in partnership with Rush University
October 6, 2015
First, I will cover some terms that you may be familiar with, but they are ones that I am not actually going to focus on today. We will get to the reason in a minute. Some of you may be more familiar... Read More
Cultural Competence Developmental Language Disorders
International Classification of Disease, 10th Revision (ICD-10) Here At Last!
September 17, 2015
The first coding system is referred to as HCPCS. HCPCS stands for Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System and it is a completely separate and distinct coding system from the International Classifica... Read More
Documentation and Reimbursement
Introduction to Stuttering & Working with Families of Children who Stutter
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September 9, 2015
I want to talk about our goals for today’s session and for the rest of the week. Today’s objectives include identifying the role a parent plays in how a child experiences stuttering and describing... Read More
Fluency, Atypical Disfluency, and Stuttering