This course is part of the 2018 Nancy McKinley Lecture Series, Evaluating and Enhancing Children's Phonological Systems. Can the speech of special populations be described by phonological characteristics? This course will present research that shows the possibilities for evaluation and intervention.

This course is part of the 2018 Nancy McKinley Lecture Series, Evaluating and Enhancing Children's Phonological Systems. The purpose of this course is to discuss phonological assessment and intervention for bilingual children with highly unintelligible speech. Topics will include an overview of assessment modifications and recommendations to account for dialects, selecting Spanish and English phonological remediation targets, and implementing a bilingual phonological remediation approach, with particular emphasis on intervention strategies.

This course is part of the 2018 Nancy McKinley Lecture Series, Evaluating and Enhancing Children's Phonological Systems. This course will focus specifically on meta-phonological awareness, enhancing meta-phonological skills, eliciting troublesome phonemes, focusing on auditory input for toddlers and choosing advanced targets for older students. Case studies of children with highly unintelligible speech will be shared.

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.

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.