This course is part of the 2018 Nancy McKinley Lecture Series, Evaluating and Enhancing Children's Phonological Systems. This course will focus on identifying and categorizing phonological deviations, clarifying typical phonological acquisition vs. “articulation norms,” determining severity ratings, and selecting optimal phonological pattern targets.

This course will provide a framework for the assessment of young children who stutter. A sample client will be introduced and a treatment plan following an indirect approach to stuttering will be described.

This course will provide an explanation of the process measures found in the Outcome and Assessment Information Set (OASIS). It will address changes that will be implemented in the OASIS-D beginning in January 2019.

Do you struggle with writing augmentative/alternative communication (AAC) goals that allow for progress monitoring and facilitate communicative competence? This course will provide suggestions on how to write specific goals across the four areas of communicative competence for AAC, as well as how to use the goals to document progression of skills.

This is Part 2 of two-part series. Do you dream of starting your own business but don't know where to start? This Part 2 will discuss ways to enhance business management, including conducting SWOT (Strengths/Weaknesses/Opportunities/Threats) analyses, and will describe various strategies for payment collection.

This course is for the healthcare practitioner with limited background knowledge in head & neck cancer who needs to develop basic clinical management skills for patients post total laryngectomy. Instruction focuses on medical/surgical treatments, alterations to anatomy, communication options, and pulmonary rehabilitation, and emphasizes understanding the functional consequences of larynx removal. This course is presented jointly with Atos Medical.

The process of dyslexia identification is complex and dynamic, and dependent on an effective screening methodology. This course will discuss a model that integrates the science behind assessment development with the current research on the symptoms, causes, and risk factors of dyslexia. This course is presented in partnership with Pearson Clinical Assessment.

This is Part 1 of a two-part series. Do you dream of starting your own business but don't know where to start? This Part 1 will introduce participants to different types of business structures, and roles played by the SLP as a business owner. Pros and cons of cash-based versus insurance-based practices will also be discussed.

This course will provide an overview of the World Health Organization's (WHO): "Patient-Centered Focus on Function" as it relates to collecting information about children from foreign language background, and using evaluation data for short- and long-term program planning. Case studies will be used to illustrate how data is gathered and conclusions are drawn about best ways to serve these children's needs.

Do dysphagia and aspiration inevitably lead to aspiration pneumonia? Our current evidence base suggests that the answer is, in fact, no. This course will enable clinicians to identify the clients on their caseload who are at higher risk for illness and to identify and address those risk factors that can be modified to reduce the likelihood of aspiration-related illness.