Aspects of motor speech include timing, sensory-motor integration, and motoric divergence that are inherited. This course discusses the motor speech components of stuttering. Planning assessment and treatment with preschoolers, school-aged children, teens and adults based on motor speech components is also described.
Course created on March 28, 2023
On Demand
Course Type: Video
CEUs/Hours Offered: ASHA/0.1 Intermediate, Professional; IACET/0.1; Kansas LTS-S1370/1.0; SAC/1.0
Learning Outcomes
- After this course, participants will be able to describe the neuroanatomy/physiology of the speech motor system, imaging/measurements, and models of stuttering and motor speech.
- After this course, participants will be able to explain how developmental stuttering is a disorder of speech motor control and coordination.
- After this course, participants will be able to describe how to connect the findings of speech motor systems to assessment and treatment for people who stutter
Agenda
0-5 Minutes | Introduction |
5-10 Minutes | Overview of neuroanatomy/physiology and motor speech system |
10-25 Minutes | Motoric findings about those who stutter |
25-35 Minutes | Models of stuttering and motor speech |
35-45 Minutes | Assessment implications |
45-55 Minutes | Treatment implications |
55-60 Minutes | Summary, Q&A |
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Lisa R. LaSalle
PhD CCC-SLP
For over 30 years, Dr. Lisa LaSalle has worked directly with individuals who stutter, clutter, and other fluency disorders. In addition, she enjoys teaching and supervising Masters-SLP students and researching the area of stuttering. She recently published an assessment protocol for children who stutter and who have concomitant disorders, the fluency facilitation of adult conversational recasts on children who stutter, and pharmacological considerations for adults who stutter. Beginning in 2023, she began a new role as professor at California State University-Monterey Bay and has been collaborating with others on topics of Parkinson’s as it relates to speech fluency disorders.
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American Speech-Language-Hearing Assn.
Intermediate Level
0.1 ASHA CEUs
International Association for Continuing Education and Training
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Kansas Dept for Aging and Disability Services
Approved for 1 continuing education clock hour(s) for Kansas licensed Speech Pathologists by the Kansas Department for Aging and Disability Services. Long-Term Sponsorship number: LTS-S1370.
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