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Short courses are ticket courses with an additional fee of $60 for attendance. You can register for short courses on the convention registration form.
Friday, November 18
SOLD OUT Session Number & Title: SC01 - Stuttering Intervention with Children: Practical Treatment Strategies and Activities Presentation Time: FR 8:00 am - 11:00 am
Location & Room: Marriott Hotel, Marina G
Authors: Peter Ramig, University of Colorado; Darrell Dodge, P.R. Ramig & Associates
Stuttering is viewed by many clinicians as the disorder area they feel least comfortable treating. However, many work in environments where children in need of fluency intervention are likely to reside. In light of this, this workshop will expose give attendees a variety of strategies and activities that are appropriate for working directly with children ranging from preschoolers to teens. The presenters will focus on describing details in both a discussion format and demonstration therapy via video samples.
Session Number & Title: SC02 - Speech Pathology and the Palliative Care Team: Forging Partnerships
Presentation Time: FR 8:00 am - 11:00 am
Location & Room: Marriott Hotel, Marina E
Authors: Carol Monteleoni, Lenox Hill Hospital; William Plonk, Jr., University of Virginia Health System; Stefanie Schwartz, Boca Raton Community Hospital, Inc.; Julie Cionfolo, Boca Raton Community Hospital, Inc.
As the population ages and hospital beds are increasingly occupied by patients with multi-system disease, speech pathologists are called upon to address feeding management and quality of life issues in patients who are approaching the final stages of illness. This interdisciplinary short course will examine the challenges in clinical practice, ethics, and team interactions speech pathologists face as they provide care for patients with advanced illness within a stressed and often dysfunctional healthcare system. It will address ways in which speech pathologists can join with interdisciplinary palliative care teams to maximize the quality of life for their sickest patients.
SOLD OUT Session Number & Title: SC03 - Finding Them and Keeping Them: Coping with SLP Shortages
Presentation Time: FR 8:00 am - 11:00 am
Location & Room: Marriott Hotel, Marina F
Authors: Barbara Moore-Brown, El Rancho Unified Schl Dist; Beth Nishida, Hacienda La Puente USD; Yvana Uranga-Hernandez, Biola University; Margaret Parker, California State University Dominguez Hills; Jennifer Shubin, El Rancho Unified School District
Reports of shortages pervade school districts throughout the country. This session will analyze the realities of the shortage including the SLP shortages and the multi-factoral issues which contribute to the shortage of school-based SLPS. Recruitment of individuals into the profession as well as retention both in the work place and in the profession will be covered. A diverse panel will not only discuss "what is" but also present novel solutions for coping with shortage issues as well as a model for university training program consideration.
SOLD OUT Session Number & Title: SC04* - AAC for Individuals with Autism: From Symbol Wars to EBP
Presentation Time: FR 8:00 am - 11:00 am
Location & Room: Marriott Hotel, Marina D
Authors: Pat Mirenda, University of British Columbia
Sponsored by Division 12, Augmentative and Alternative Communication
This short course will address the debate concerning the use of manual signing versus graphic symbols in AAC interventions for individuals with autism. Research regarding both the acquisition of functional communication skills and the concurrent development of natural speech using both modalities will be included, with examples from recent studies
SOLD OUT Session Number & Title: SC05 - Velo-cardio-facial Syndrome: a Genetic Model for Speech and Language Impairment
Presentation Time: FR 8:00 am - 11:00 am
Location & Room: Marriott Hotel, Cardiff
Authors: Robert Shprintzen, Upstate Medical University; Eileen Marrinan, CNY Center for Cleft and Craniofacial Disorders
Velo-cardio-facial syndrome was first described in 1978 as a distinct genetic syndrome because of the association of speech, cardiac, and developmental findings. Since then it has been found that VCFS is the most common contiguous gene deletion syndrome in humans and the genomic cause of the disorder has been vigorously researched. The distinctive speech and language impairments are caused by a combination of structural, biochemical, and neurological anomalies caused by specific deleted genes. These findings based on data obtained from over 1,000 subjects will be reviewed and discussed within the context of implications for other common genetic disorders.
SOLD OUT Session Number & Title: SC06* - Meeting the Needs of People with Dementia: Interventions, Training, Reimbursement
Presentation Time: FR 12:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Location & Room: Marriott Hotel, Marina D
Authors: Susan Goldfein, Older Adult Consultation Services; Jennifer Brush, Brush Educational Group, LLC; Faerella Boczko, Jewish Home and Hospital for the Aged; Kassie Witte, Hebrew Home for the Aged; Tom Slominski, Northern Speech and National Rehabilitation Services
Sponsored by Division 15, Gerontology
This short course will address the role of the SLP in treating our most challenging caseload -- people with middle and late-stage dementia residing in long term care. This presentation will provide the essential tools clinicians need to interface with this population and those who care for them. Content includes a framework for memory and learning in dementia, evidence-based cognitive-linguistic interventions, approaches to dysphagia management, the role of the SLP in caregiver training and the bottom line -- reimbursement issues.
Session Number & Title: SC07* - Managing Dysphagia in the Schools: It Can Be Done!
Presentation Time: FR 12:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Location & Room: Marriott Hotel, Marina E
Authors: Joan Arvedson, Children's Hospital of Wisconsin-Milwaukee; Emily Homer, St. Tammany Parish School System; DeAnne Owre, Woonsocket School System; Sheryl Amaral, Cumberland School Department
Sponsored by Division 16, School-Based Issues
This course is intended to empower school based SLPs with the information necessary to work with students in their district with dysphagia! Speakers will address the legal concerns of SLPs in the schools, offer justifications for dysphagia treatment in the schools, and provide the tools necessary for building a team within their school system and securing system approval. Information related to health/medical issues to assist in linking medical teams and school teams and securing nutrition guidelines will be provided.
SOLD OUT Session Number & Title: SC08 - Neural Plasticity & Cognitive Development: Children with Early Neurodevelopmental Disorders
Presentation Time: FR 12:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Location & Room: Marriott Hotel, Marina G
Authors: Joan Stiles, University of California at San Diego
Developmental cognitive neuroscience has grown exponentially over recent decades. Findings from animal and human studies have fundamentally changed the way we think about development. The age-old question of nature vs. nurture is losing relevance as studies demonstrate the interaction between biology and experience. This session will consider how experience moderates the emergence of alternative patterns of brain organization in the context of early focal brain injury. We will consider the possible limits of developmental brain plasticity, the existence of critical or sensitive periods for cognitive functions, effects of early training on the development of cognition, and evidence for optimal interventions.
Session Number & Title: SC09 - Benign Vocal Pathology: Origins, Nomenclature and Treatment
Presentation Time: FR 12:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Location & Room: Marriott Hotel, Marina F
Authors: Alison Behrman, New York University; Clark Rosen, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine; Susan Thibeault, University of Utah
This course provides a comprehensive interdisciplinary update of our current understanding of benign vocal pathology, including new information about microscopic structure and biological etiology of vocal fold lesions and the phonatory implications of specific pathologies. A validated classification system will be presented, including incidence and definition criteria, based on stroboscopic characteristics, response to voice therapy, and operative findings for various lesion types. Presentation of the diagnosis and treatment of benign lesions will include medical, surgical and behavioral approaches, with particular attention to the voice pathologist's role in the efficacy of therapy for vocal fold pathology.
Session Number & Title: SC10* - Monitoring Ototoxic Changes in the Auditory and Vestibular Systems
Presentation Time: FR 12:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Location & Room: Marriott Hotel, Cardiff
Authors: Jaynee Handelsman, University of Michigan; Dawn Konrad-Martin, Nat'l Center for Rehab. Auditory Research (NCRAR)
Sponsored by Division 6, Hearing and Hearing Disorders: Research and Diagnostics
Ototoxic drugs cause damage to the auditory and vestibular systems. Prospective monitoring of hearing and balance for the management of patients receiving ototoxic drugs is an active area of research. Approaches proposed for early detection and monitoring of hearing changes include high frequency audiometry and otoacoustic emissions (OAEs). However, no accepted protocol exists for monitoring pure-tone threshold changes related to ototoxicity, and the relationship between changes in OAEs and changes in hearing is unclear. Similarly, no accepted protocol exists for monitoring vestibular system changes. This presentation will discuss available techniques, and highlight the dilemmas associated with ototoxicity monitoring.
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Saturday, November 19
SOLD OUT Session Number & Title: SC11* - Capturing the Quality in Your Service Delivery Program
Presentation Time: SAT 8:00 am - 11:00 am
Location & Room: Marriott Hotel, Cardiff
Authors: Susan Bartlett, University of Connecticut; Jaynee A. Handelsman, University of Michigan; John Tonkovich, Eastern Michigan University; Marilyn Dunham Wark, University of Memphis; Dianne H. Meyer, Rush University Medical Center; Kelly Appler, ASHA
Sponsored by Special Interest Division 11, Administration and Supervision.
This short course addresses ASHA's 2005 quality indicators and their application to programs in audiology and speech-language pathology across all settings, including schools, hospitals, rehabilitation centers, and private practices. The course will provide a comprehensive review of the quality indicators; demonstrate how this document can be used as a tool to conduct a self-study for voluntary compliance with the indicators; show how the results can be summarized for administrators and other stakeholders; and
explore how the indicators may be used to guide the development of new programs.
Session Number & Title: SC12* - The Psychophysics of Taste: Relevance to Swallowing Across the Lifespan
Presentation Time: SAT 8:00 am - 11:00 am
Location & Room: Marriott Hotel, Marina E
Authors: Linda Bartoshuk, Yale University
Sponsored by Special Interest Division 13, Swallowing and Swallowing Disorders
Taste is linked to other oral sensations by anatomy in the periphery and the brain. We suspect that taste input not only serves its obvious sensory function but also inhibits activities incompatible with eating (gagging) and stimulates activities crucial to eating (swallowing). Thus variation in taste may have implications for swallowing. Our research has focused both on genetic and pathological variation in oral sensation. For example, supertasters (individuals born with many taste buds) experience intensified oral sensations. Disorders that impact on the taste nerves (otitis media) can reduce taste sensations while intensifying oral sensations like burn (chilis) and touch (fats).
Session Number & Title: SC13 - Specialized Fluency Treatment in Our Schools; What Better Place!
Presentation Time: SAT 8:00 am - 11:00 am
Location & Room: Marriott Hotel, Marina F
Authors: Susan Cochrane, Freedom to Speak
Sponsored by the Specialty Board on Fluency
Successful stuttering treatment has been and is conducted in the public school setting. Discover how you too, may create "change invoking" programs and processes for your own students. Join this dynamic team of school-based, Board Recognized Specialists on an information gathering journey. This course will show how to complete an individualized assessment for the school-age child who stutters and develop specific treatment plans based on results of the assessment. Further, gain knowledge of useful approaches, techniques and activities propelling your children toward meeting their goals and successful communication.
Session Number & Title: SC14 - AAC for Communication and Behavior Support with Individuals with Autism
Presentation Time: SAT 8:00 am - 11:00 am
Location & Room: Marriott Hotel, Marina G
Authors: Pat Mirenda, University of British Columbia
This short course will provide an overview of AAC techniques that can be used to support individuals with autism who engage in "problem" behavior. These include augmented input techniques such as visual schedules and contingency maps, and augmented output techniques such as functional communication training and choice making displays.
Session Number & Title: SC15* - Intervention with Bilingual Children and Adults with Primary Language Impairments
Presentation Time: SAT 8:00 am - 11:00 am
Location & Room: Marriott Hotel, Marina D
Authors: Kathryn Kohnert, University of Minnesota
Sponsored by Division 14, Communication Disorders in Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Populations
Clinical decision-making with linguistically diverse children and adults will be considered from a general interactive processing perspective using empirical evidence as support. We will consider critical questions related to planning and implementing effective intervention for bilingual children with developmental language delays, and bilingual adults with acquired aphasia. Clinical questions to be addressed include, which language(s) should be supported through intervention; how can intervention be structured to best serve bilingual clients; what are methods for supporting skills in a language not spoken by the SLP.
Session Number & Title: SC16 - Eliminate Your Reimbursement Fear Factor
Presentation Time: SAT 12:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Location & Room: Marriott Hotel, Cardiff
Authors: Maureen Thompson, ASHA; Joanne Wisely, Genesis Rehabilitation Services; Ann Pendley, Speech and Language Stimulation Center, Inc.
Do you have the guts to face your reimbursement fears? If not, audiology and speech-language pathology could be eliminated from the reimbursement arena. By facing your fears, you will be a better advocate. Whether you want to navigate changes in public/private payers, comply with Medicaid in a school setting, or thrive in a private practice, this short course will give you the courage needed to face your reimbursement fears. An overview of the health care reimbursement cycle, description of common reimbursement obstacles, and advocacy resources will be presented.
Session Number & Title: SC17 - Implementing AAC in Acute Care Settings
Presentation Time: SAT 12:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Location & Room: Marriott Hotel, Marina E
Authors: Debora Downey, The Center for Disabilities and Development; Richard Hurtig, University of Iowa; Vannesa Mueller, University of Iowa; Aicha Rochdi, University of Iowa; Peggy Daugherty, The Center for Disabilities and Development
The use of AAC empowers patients with no functional speech or minimal movement to become active participants in their medical care. Assistive technology can be implemented with a variety of patients across the lifespan and enhances communication, independence and reduces the anxiety patients often experience. This short course will provide the speech-language pathologist serving patients in critical care units with new and functional methods for implementing AAC. We will review how current technological advancements make it possible to implement AAC in acute care settings with minimal set-up and programming.
Session Number & Title: SC18* - Non-Cleft Causes of Resonance Disorders & Velopharyngeal Dysfunction: Assessment & Intervention Strategies
Presentation Time: SAT 12:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Location & Room: Marriott Hotel, Marina F
Authors: Ann W. Kummer, Children's Hospital Medical Center
Sponsored by Division 5, Speech Science and Orofacial Disorders
Although a history of cleft palate is the most common cause of velopharyngeal dysfunction (VPD), there are many other structural, physiological and functional causes of VPD that result in the same type of speech and resonance characteristics. These causes include occult submucous cleft, cranial base anomalies, adenoidectomy, adenoid atrophy, irregular adenoid tissue, maxillary advancement, the treatment of oral cavity tumors, velar dysplasia, hypertrophic tonsils, dysarthria, apraxia, cranial nerve damage, pharyngeal hypotonia, inadequate auditory feedback, a conversion reaction and faulty articulation. In this session, these and other varied causes of VPD will be discussed and illustrated through slides and videos. The importance of a differential diagnosis will be stressed. High tech, low tech and "no tech" evaluation procedures will be discussed. Finally, appropriate treatment methods will be suggested, in addition to therapeutic procedures.
Session Number & Title: SC19* - The How-Tos of Listening Therapy for Individuals with Hearing Loss
Presentation Time: SAT 12:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Location & Room: Marriott Hotel, Marina G
Authors: Elizabeth Wilkes, University of Texas Health Sciences Center - San Antonio
Sponsored by Division 9, Hearing and Hearing Disorders in Childhood
This short course will acquaint attendees with the components of quality aural habilitation for new cochlear implant and hearing-aid users. The development of IEPs for listening skills for school-age children, expectations and milestones for the development of audition and spoken language with cochlear implants even when transitioning from signed communication, and specific strategies to promote the integration of listening into a hearing-impaired individual's personality will be covered. A scope and sequence of listening skill development will be discussed along with specific intervention techniques that the therapist can use regardless of the age of the client.
Session Number & Title: SC20* - Sniffs, Gasps, and Cough: Irritable Larynx Syndrome Across the Lifespan
Presentation Time: SAT 12:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Location & Room: Marriott Hotel, Marina D
Authors: Mary Sandage, University of Wisconsin-Madison Voice Clinic; Mary Schroth, University of Wisconsin Medical School
Sponsored by Division 3, Voice and Voice Disorders
Irritable larynx syndrome (ILS) is a complex heterogeneous disorder, often misdiagnosed as asthma. ILS is a continuum of laryngeal behaviors, including chronic cough and paradoxical vocal fold motion/vocal cord dysfunction. Accurate assessment and remediation requires the speech-language pathologist to understand the differential diagnoses and the medical management options to ensure success of the behavioral program. This course will feature both a pulmonologist and a speech-language pathologist with extensive experience successfully diagnosing and treating ILS across the lifespan. Particular attention will be given to special populations such as children and athletes.
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Sunday, November 20
Session Number & Title: SC21* - Infusing Evidence Based Practice into Academic and Clinical Courses
Presentation Time: SUN 8:00 am - 11:00 am
Location & Room: Marriott Hotel, Marina D
Authors: Rosalind Scudder, Wichita State University; Trisha Self, Wichita State University; Anthony DiLollo, Wichita State University
Sponsored by Division 10, Issues in Higher Education
This short course will present course syllabi, worksheets, and clinical examples of how to infuse evidence based practice into university courses. Procedures will be described for academic and clinical courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels. A review of relevant literature, principles, and ideas for evidence based practice, case examples from a program at Wichita State University will be presented.
Session Number & Title: SC22 - Dynamic Fluoroscopic Swallow Studies: Clinical Utility of Selected Objective Measures
Presentation Time: SUN 8:00 am - 11:00 am
Location & Room: Marriott Hotel, Marina E
Authors: Rebecca Leonard, University of California - Davis Medical School
The intent of the course is to present selected results of several years' experience, research and clinical work with objective measures extracted from fluoroscopic swallow studies. Timing and displacement measures collected from normal and dysphagic adults have proved useful in understanding normal swallowing function, elaborating dysphagia in individual patients and predicting impairment in specific dysphagic populations. Presenters will briefly describe measurement techniques utilized, review data of particular clinical value and discuss ways in which clinicians may obtain objective data that are helpful to assessment and treatment planning, but also technically viable and cost-effective.
Session Number & Title: SC23* - The Process of Treating Stuttering in the School Setting
Presentation Time: SUN 8:00 am - 11:00 am
Location & Room: Marriott Hotel, Marina F
Authors: Erin Dyer Olsen, School District of Belleville (WI)
Sponsored by Division 4, Fluency and Fluency Disorders
This short course will focus upon current best practices for treatment of stuttering in preschool and school-aged children. In addition to assessment and treatment issues, the course will include specific suggestions for describing student eligibility for services and writing IEP goals and benchmarks according to the current IDEA regulations. Participants will be asked to "think outside of the box" as they look at the whole child when considering their students who stutter.
Session Number & Title: SC24* - Memory Assessment on an Interdisciplinary Rehabilitation Team
Presentation Time: SUN 8:00 am - 11:00 am
Location & Room: Marriott Hotel, Marina G
Authors: Angelle Sander, Baylor College of Medicine; Risa Nakase-Richardson, Methodist Rehabilitation Center; Fofi Constantinidou, Miami University; Diane Paul, ASHA
Sponsored by Division 2, Neurophysiology and Neurogenic Speech and Language Disorders
Impaired memory, observed in a variety of neurological disorders, is often assessed and treated by various interdisciplinary team members, including neuropsychologists and speech-language pathologists. Differences in methods and terminology can lead to discrepant recommendations for patients with memory impairments. This presentation will describe a model of memory used to guide assessment and promote use of consistent terminology among rehabilitation team members. The model will be applied to frequently used memory measures, with an emphasis on implications for interpretation of results and recommendations.
Session Number & Title: SC25 - School Consultation: Concepts, Process and Instructional Leadership Strategies
Presentation Time: SUN 8:00 am - 11:00 am
Location & Room: Marriott Hotel, Cardiff
Authors: Wayne Secord, University of Central Florida
School consultation is a combination of conceptual considerations, process skills, and instructional leadership strategies. This short course will provide an overview of the conceptual framework on which school consultation is based; describe the school consultation process in detail; and consider a variety of leadership strategies that may be needed to establish an effective program. Collaborative-consultation and instructional leadership are key to the success of any school. Participants who attend this program will leave with new skills and strategies to make their own instructional leadership a reality.
Session Number & Title: SC26* - Are you Prepared to Support Students in Reading Strategically?
Presentation Time: SUN 12:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Location & Room: Marriott Hotel, Marina G
Authors: Rollanda Estby O'Connor, University of California at Riverside
Sponsored by Division 1, Language Learning and Education
Schools are under enormous pressure to meet AYP (Adequate Yearly Progress). SLPs need to share the responsibility for promoting strategic reading, especially in students with reading difficulties. Essential to this role is striking the balance between teaching skills and strategies. This short course will focus on evidence-based practice principles for teaching reading comprehension strategies to students with reading disabilities.
Session Number & Title: SC27 - Critical Thinking and Belief: User-Friendly Approaches to Effective Clinical Practice
Presentation Time: SUN 12:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Location & Room: Marriott Hotel, Marina F
Authors: Patrick Finn, University of Arizona; Anne Bother, University of Georgia; Robert Ringel, Purdue University
The convention's theme of "using evidence to support practice" is recognition of the scientific method and its contribution to clinic. However, science is more than method; it is also knowing how to think critically. Therefore, the objectives of this course are to help students and clinicians understand critical thinking and how it applies to clinical thinking; review classic scientific concepts, such as false positives and negatives, and their contributions to understanding assessment and treatment; and describe the utility of evidence-based approaches as one way to ask questions about clinical decision-making and clinical practice.
CANCELLED Session Number & Title: SC28* - Harnessing Principles of Neuroplasticity to Treat (Central) Auditory Processing Disorders
Session Number & Title: SC29 - Negotiating Private Health Plan Coverage - A Process
Presentation Time: SUN 12:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Location & Room: Marriott Hotel, Cardiff
Authors: Maureen Thompson, ASHA; Steven White, ASHA
Coverage rules and reimbursement rates are increasingly affecting access to and scope of services provided by audiologists and speech-language pathologists. This short course will describe how to advocate and negotiate with private health plans for comprehensive coverage of and reasonable reimbursement rates for speech-language pathology and audiology services.
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* Several short courses are sponsored by Special Interest Divisions, and if you are an affiliate of any Division you can purchase tickets for $30 to those courses. To join a Special Interest Division, call ASHA Action Center at 1-301-694-5243.
** Short Courses sell out quickly. If a course is sold out when you register:
- Payment by credit card - your card will not be charged
- Payment by check - you can select another course at the same price by calling 1-301-694-5243 or receive an ASHA check refund in the mail after Convention.
To add a short course after receiving your registration materials, you can call 1-301-694-5243 no later than Oct. 28. After Oct. 28, you may purchase any available tickets at the registration area in Hall B1 of the San Diego Convention Center.
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