My presentation best fits into the following topic strand, click all that apply:
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The Whole Child/Co-occurring Disorders – language disorder, autism spectrum disorder and other complex diagnoses, neurodiversity, dysarthria, developmental coordination disorder, voice, fluency, global apraxia, sensory processing disorder, fine/gross motor movements, and OT/PT
Scientific Research/Theory/Genetics – current research on any related topic including genetics, putting research into practice
Cultural and Linguistic Diversity – (DEI) providing evidence-based assessment and treatment for CAS and other motor speech disorders in children who communicate in languages other than and/or in addition to English, including overall communication system of the whole child, target selection, home practice, decisions across the lifespan, AAC, and co-occurring disorders
Assessment and Differential Diagnosis of CAS and other motor speech disorders – evidence bases for making differential diagnosis, analysis of data, case studies, testing minimally verbal children, assessment for older/mild cases
Treatment of CAS and other motor speech disorders – evidence bases and tutorials for treatment protocols, novel therapy approaches, principles of motor learning, case studies, evaluating progress, residual speech issues, therapy for different ages/severity, home practice, generalization, prosody and vowel changes, intensive services for apraxia, writing appropriate goals, and data collection
Interpersonal/Social/Emotional – social skill challenges, friendship building, dealing with classmates, bullying, difficult behaviors
Education/Academic/Literacy – developing goals, IEPs, advocacy, legal issues and special education, school placement options, retention, accommodations, literacy issues, phonological awareness, language processing deficits, executive functioning
AAC – introductory through advanced sessions on evaluation, training of device use in therapy, use at home and in the community, teaching language through AAC, pre-verbal children
Older Individuals with CAS (middle/high school/adult) and their challenges
Advanced Topics geared towards the SLP who already has foundational knowledge in assessment and treatment – challenging diagnostic/treatment case studies, contrasting speech therapy methods; therapy strategies for vowel and prosody modification; perception, phonological representation
Other (Ethics or other topics not included above) Other (Ethics or other topics not included above)