Tips, Tricks, and Tools to Bring LPAA into Your Language Therapy

This is Part 3 of the five-part series, Five Fresh Perspectives on Applying LPAA Principles to Treatment for Neurogenic Communication Disorders. The Life Participation Approach to Aphasia (LPAA) is consistent with a person-centered care treatment model in speech therapy. This course focuses on how the clinical SLP can use the LPAA in language therapy from day one, with a focus on treating the language impairment.

Course created on May 1, 2019

Aphasia

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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 at least two tools that could be included in an assessment to promote a life participation approach.
After this course, participants will be able to name five categories that could be considered when developing personally relevant stimuli in language therapy.
After this course, participants will be able to list three components a home program should have to promote improvement and relevance for language therapy.

Agenda

0-5 Minutes	Introduction
5-10 Minutes	Life Participation Approach to Aphasia basics (myths busted)
10-20 Minutes	Viewing assessment through the LPAA lens
20-40 Minutes	Using therapy to improve personally relevant impairments
40-50 Minutes	Using home programs to improve personally relevant impairments
50-55 Minutes	Case study
55-60 Minutes	Summary, Q&A

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Presented By

Sarah Baar, MA, CCC-SLP

Sarah Baar, MA, CCC-SLP is a speech-language pathologist working with adults and specializing in person-centered functional approaches for neurogenic disorders in Grand Rapids, MI. She has worked across the continuum of care, treating patients with stroke, brain injury, and dementia in acute care, inpatient rehab, outpatient therapy, and home/community settings. In 2016, she started the Honeycomb Speech Therapy website and blog as a way to promote person-centered and functional therapy ideas with other SLPs.

Presenter Disclosure: Financial: Sarah Baar was paid an honorarium for this course by SpeechPathology.com. Sarah is the owner of Honeycomb Speech Therapy LLC, a private practice that treats clients and also sells person-centered therapy materials. Non-financial: No nonfinancial relationships to disclose.

Content Disclosure: This learning event does not focus exclusively on any specific product or service.

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American Speech-Language-Hearing Assn.

This course is offered for 0.1 ASHA CEUs (Intermediate level, Professional Area)

International Association for Continuing Education and Training

continued, LLC, DBA AudiologyOnline, is accredited by the International Association for Continuing Education and Training (IACET). continued complies with the ANSI/IACET Standard, which is recognized internationally as a standard of excellence in instructional practices. As a result of this accreditation, continued is authorized to issue the IACET CEU. continued, LLC, is authorized by IACET to offer 0.1 CEUs for this program.

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.

California Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology Board: SpeechPathology.com is approved by the California Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology Board as a Continuing Professional Development Provider, approval number PDP 268. This course may meet the requirements for 1 hours of continuing education credit for SLPs as required by the California Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology and Hearing Aid Dispensers Board. The responsibility for determining whether or not this specific course counts toward an individual's requirements for license renewal is up to the individual. Please refer to the CA state board rules regarding allowable topics and self-study limits: http://www.speechandhearing.ca.gov/licensees/ce_req.shtml. Live webinars on SpeechPathology.com do not count as self-study courses toward California professional development requirements.

Speech-Language and Audiology Canada

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