My presentation best fits into the following topic strand, click all that apply:
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The Whole Child/Co-morbid 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/Hippotherapy
Scientific Research/Theory/Genetics – current research on any related topic including genetics, putting research into practice
Cultural and Linguistic Diversity - 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 comorbidities
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
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 and 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
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