This is Part 2 of a two-part series. This course will cover a number of basic treatment techniques for adults with a variety of types of dysarthria.

To treat oral dysphagia, the SLP must select and use appropriate compensatory strategies, including bolus modifications and postural strategies, as well as implement rehabilitative techniques designed to achieve a change in physiologic function. Limited evidence exists for many oral phase rehabilitative techniques; therefore, this course will describe and discuss the related principles of neural plasticity, motor learning and neuromuscular treatments that the SLP must understand in order to effectively treat patients with oral dysphagia.

This course surveys best practices, regulations, and assessment options for monolingual and bilingual clinicians working with linguistically and culturally diverse children. Assessment protocols to help in differential diagnosis of language differences from genuine disorders are reviewed, including ethnographic principles, dynamic assessment, narrative analysis, and vocabulary measures.

Fluency disorders (i.e., developmental stuttering, late onset stuttering, cluttering) have a relatively low prevalence, but 30-40% of children who stutter show speech sound disorders and 15-30% show language disorders. Thus, it is incumbent upon us to plan and implement improvement in both or multiple disorders. This course will focus on how best to do that.

This course describes an intervention procedure designed around SLP distinctive oral language competencies to improve expository speaking, writing and comprehension. Two preliminary treatment studies and clinical perspectives about implementation within and beyond the research setting will also be discussed. This course is presented in cooperation with the American Board of Child Language and Language Disorders (ABCLLD).

This is Part 1 of a two-part series. This course will provide an overview of considerations for evaluation of pediatric and adolescent vocal athletes. This will include normal voice development and common vocal pathologies within this population.

This course will provide a brief overview on the construct of executive functions, in particular those that may relate to childhood stuttering. Empirical evidence on the role of executive functions in childhood stuttering as well as clinical implications for assessment and treatment will be discussed.

This is Part 3 of the three-part series, Connecting to Communicate: A Telepractice Series. Structuring successful telepractice services requires planning and “buy-in” from the patients or clients being served. Practitioners must know the unique diagnostic and/or treatment needs of those on their caseload and how these needs can be met using distance technology. This course will address the “how-to” of delivering telepractice services. Telepractice case studies will be discussed. Strategies for evaluating telepractice programs also will be presented.

This is Part 1 of a two-part series. This course will cover the types of dysarthria and basic assessment techniques for differential diagnosis of dysarthria.

Young children sometimes demonstrate challenging behaviors for parents, educators and peers within the contexts of everyday routines at home, in educational settings, and out in the community -- often due to limited communicative and social-emotional skills. This course will demonstrate the Positive Behavior Support (PBS) process and how Routine Scripts, Social Stories, and Rule Books have proven successful in preventing these behaviors and teaching young children acceptable social, emotional and communicative skills.