Children Draw Talking: Understanding Children's Communication Experiences with Arts-Based Methods
Course: #11254Level: Intermediate 1 Hour 1631 Reviews
This session focuses on drawings as a clinical tool offering creative insights into communication development and disorders in a multilingual context. Specific examples demonstrate how drawings can amplify children’s voices while also supporting speech language pathologists’ cultural competence.
On Demand
Course Type: Video
CEUs/Hours Offered: ASHA/0.1 Intermediate, Professional; Calif SLPAB/1.0; IACET/0.1; Kansas LTS-S1370/1.0; SAC/1.0
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Learning Outcomes
- After this course, participants will be able to explain how drawings can be used as a clinical tool in speech language pathology.
- After this course, participants will be able to describe how children’s drawings can support a better understanding of their communicative experiences.
- After this course, participants will be able to analyze the steps involved in collecting and interpreting children’s drawings.
Course created on July 31, 2025
Agenda
| 0-5 Minutes | Introduction |
| 5-20 Minutes | What We Did |
| 20-40 Minutes | What We Learned |
| 40-45 Minutes | Clinical Implications |
| 45-55 Minutes | Key Takeaways |
| 55-60 Minutes | Summary / Q&A |
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1631 ReviewsPresented By
Karla Washington
PhD CCC-SLP, S-LP(C), BCS-CL, ASHA Fellow, Canada Research Chair (Tier 2)
Dr. Karla N. Washington, PhD, CCC-SLP, Assoc/Professor, University of Toronto, focuses her research on typical and disordered speech-language function in monolingual and multilingual preschoolers. Her research seeks to characterize speech sound productions, expressive language, and functional communication across linguistic boundaries. Karla is active in NIH-sponsored research investigating Jamaican children’s speech productions and monolingual preschoolers’ language function. She is an Editor for LSHSS (editor-in-chief beginning 2025) and is an ASHA Fellow.
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Nicole Bazzocchi
MHSc., S-LP(C), Reg. CASLPO
Nicole is a Speech-Language Pathologist (Reg. CASLPO) in Ontario. She works with preschool and school-aged children, treating speech and language disorders. In 2023, Nicole began at the University of Toronto to pursue research. She is now a PhD student in the Paediatric Language, Learning & Speech (PedLLS) Outcomes Lab, led by Dr. Karla N Washington, exploring speech and language development across monolingual and multilingual contexts.
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Financial: Dr. Karla N. Washington was the Principal Investigator (PI) on a National Institutes on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), National Institutes of Health (NIH) Research Grant R21DC018170 that supported the project discussed today. She is also the PI for the Jamaican Creole Language Project Endowment (gift) Fund that supported the project discussed today. Karla is a Canada Research Chair (CRC, Tier 2 Canadian Institutes of Health Research) which supported teaching release and student support, as well as project activities. She is Editor-in-Chief for Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools (LSHSS). Non-financial: Associate Professor, University of Toronto, Ontario Canada, Dept. of SLP. Associate Professor, Rehabilitation Sciences Institute, University of Toronto, Ontario Canada. Affiliate Scientist, The Institute for Education Research, University Health Network, Canada. Adjunct Professor at the University of Cincinnati, Ohio, USA, Dept. of CSD.
Financial: Nicole Bazzocchi was paid an honorarium for this presentation and received support from PI Washington’s NIH-NIDCD R21 grant and CRC. Non-financial: Nicole Bazzocchi has no relevant non-financial relationships to disclose.
Sponsor Disclosure: This Course is presented by SpeechPathology.com, a Continued site.
Content Disclosure: This learning event does not focus exclusively on any specific product or service.
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Intermediate Level
0.10 ASHA CEUs
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