American Speech-Language-Hearing Association

Health Care & Business Institute

Schedule at a Glance

Friday, April 26 | Saturday, April 27 | Sunday, April 28

 

Friday, April 26
4:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. Registration, Materials Pick Up
Saturday, April 27
7:15 a.m. – 8:00 a.m. Registration, Materials Pick Up, and Continental Breakfast (included in your registration)
8:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. Opening Plenary

PL1- A Value Proposition: Speech-Language Pathology in the New Health Care Landscape
Paul R. Rao, PhD, CCC-SLP

9:15 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Business Institute

B1 - Documentation: What, Why, and How to Do It Better
(Three-hour workshop)
Nancy B. Swigert, MA, CCC-SLP

9:15 a.m. – 10:45 a.m. Business Institute

B9 - What’s New for 2013? Making Sense and Cents of Health Care Coding Changes and Medicare Billing Requirements (Repeated as session B15.)
Dee Adams Nikjeh, PhD, CCC-SLP

Adult Neurogenic Disorders

N1 - Assistive Technology for Cognition: Process and Product (Recommended as a prerequisite for session N6.)
Don MacLennan, MA, CCC-SLP

Swallowing

S1 - SLP Roles in the Intensive Care Unit
Martin B. Brodsky, PhD, CCC-SLP

Pediatric

P1 - Assessment Challenges in Auditory Processing Disorders (APD)
Gail J. Richard, PhD, CCC-SLP

11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Business Institute

B10 - It’s a Business (Ad)Venture! Strategies for Program Success in the Changing Health Care Environment
Ann W. Kummer, PhD, CCC-SLP

Adult Neurogenic Disorders

N2 - Assessment and Treatment Planning for the Laryngeal Airway
Bari Ruddy, PhD
Christine Sapienza, PhD, CCC-SLP

Swallowing

S2 - Radiologic Work-up of Dysphagia: A Primer for the Practitioner
Ilona Schmalfuss, MD

Pediatric

P2 - Treatment Decision Dilemmas for Auditory Processing Disorders (APD)
Gail J. Richard, PhD, CCC-SLP

12:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. Exhibit Hall Grand Opening and Lunch With Exhibitors (included in your registration)
2:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. Business Institute

B3 - Changes to Medicaid: What’s the Impact?
Laurie Alban Havens, MA, CCC-SLP

B11 - The Art of Influencing Others (Without Twisting Any Arms!)
Ann W. Kummer, PhD, CCC-SLP

Adult Neurogenic Disorders

N3 - College After TBI: Best Practices in Self-Coaching and Cognitive Rehabilitation
Don MacLennan, MA, CCC-SLP

Swallowing

S3 - Radiation Safety for Your Patients and Yourself
Martin B. Brodsky, PhD, CCC-SLP

Pediatric

P3 - Using Music to Enhance Speech and Language in Young Children
Rachel Arntson, MS, CCC-SLP

3:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. Refreshment Break With Exhibitors (included in your registration)
4:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. Business Institute

B4 - Can Telepractice Work for You?
Carol C. Dudding, PhD, CCC-SLP

B12 - Transparency, Reimbursement, and Ethics
Heather Bupp, Esq

Adult Neurogenic Disorders

N4 - Treatment for Aphasic Agrammatism in a Value-Based Health Care Environment
Richard K. Peach, PhD, CCC-SLP

Swallowing

S4 - Mucosal and Non-Mucosal Causes of Dysphagia
Ilona Schmalfuss, MD
Paula A. Sullivan, MS, CCC-SLP

Pediatric

P4 - Assessment and Treatment of Swallow Dysfunction in Pediatric Patients With Tracheostomies
Heather Keskeny, MA, CCC-SLP

Sunday, April 28
7:30 a.m. – 8:30 a.m. Continental Breakfast (included in your registration)
7:45 a.m. – 8:30 a.m. Member Forum (Share you perspective with ASHA)
8:30 a.m. – 11:45 a.m. Business Institute

B5 - Productivity and Other Demands: They Expect Me to Do What?
(Three-hour workshop)
Nancy B. Swigert, MA, CCC-SLP

8:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. Business Institute

B13 - Starting a Private Practice?
Denise Dougherty, MA, CCC-SLP

Adult Neurogenic Disorders

N5 - Global Aphasia: Assessment and Intervention in a Changing Health Care Environment
Richard K. Peach, PhD, CCC-SLP

Swallowing

S5 - "Working out" Dysphagia With Exercise-Based Treatments
Lori Burkhead Morgan, CCC-SLP

Pediatric

P5 - Improving Feeding of Infants With Tracheostomies
Heather Keskeny, MA, CCC-SLP

10:15 a.m. – 11:45 a.m. Business Institute

B14 - Supervision: Strategies for Evaluation and Assessment
Carol C. Dudding, PhD, CCC-SLP

Adult Neurogenic Disorders

N6 - Assistive Technology (AT) Devices and Software for Adult Neurogenic Rehabilitation: Part I
(Session N1 is recommended as a prerequisite. This session is recommended as a prerequisite for session N7.)
Polytrauma Rehabilitation Center AT Team

Swallowing

S6 - Swallowing and Respiration: Assessment and Treatment
Michelle S. Troche, PhD, CCC-SLP

Pediatric

P8 - Developments in Theory of Mind
Carol Westby, PhD, CCC-SLP

11:45 a.m. – 1:15 p.m. Lunch With Exhibitors (included in your registration)
1:15 p.m. – 2:45 p.m. Business Institute

B7 - Legal Implications of Ethical Choices in Patient Care
Heather Bupp, Esq

B15 - What’s New for 2013? Making Sense and Cents of Health Care Coding Changes and Medicare Billing Requirements
(Repeated as session B9.)
Dee Adams Nikjeh, PhD, CCC-SLP

Adult Neurogenic Disorders

N7 - AT Devices and Software for Adult Neurogenic Rehabilitation: Part II, Case Studies
(Sessions N1 and N6 are recommended as prerequisites.)
Polytrauma Rehabilitation Center AT Team

Swallowing

S7 - Feeding, Swallowing, and Nutritional Care in Late Life
Paula A. Sullivan, MS, CCC-SLP

Pediatric

P7 - How Is My Child Doing? A Communication Framework for Families
Rachel Arntson, MS, CCC-SLP

3:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. Business Institute

B16 - Health Care Changes and You
Speaker Panel

Adult Neurogenic Disorders

N8 - Traumatic Brain Injury and Psychological Health
Cathleen Shields, MS, CCC-SLP

Swallowing

S8 - Disordered Cough(Dystussia) and Dysphagia Management
Michelle S. Troche, PhD, CCC-SLP

S9 - How I Do It: Demonstrations from Master Dysphagia Clinicians
Lori Burkhead Morgan, PhD, CCC-SLP
Paula A. Sullivan, MS, CCC-SLP, BRS-S
Pediatric

P6 - Play, Language, and Children’s Development
Carol Westby, PhD, CCC-SLP

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