Professional Development

 
 

Improving results for children with severe speech sound disorders

Teresa Farnham is a popular speaker on the subject of rapidly improving the speech of children who are highly unintelligible. Using the research of Judith Gierut and others, Teresa has developed an evaluation and therapy planning process that leads to children moving from unintelligible speech to intelligible speech, usually during the course of a single school year. Teresa implemented this approach for over 10 years as a school-based speech-language pathologist, with consistently great results.

Teresa also presents a full-day workshop on this subject for the Bureau of Education and Research. Dates, times and registration information can be found here.

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5 hour live workshop:

Promoting Rapid Change for Children with Severe Speech Sound Disorders


As a result of this workshop, participants will be able to:

  • identify necessary elements of phonological assessment to support selection of appropriate phonemic targets for therapeutic intervention

  • identify key components of effective phonological assessment

  • identify key strategies for effective phonological intervention

 

Planning and providing sLP services to Students who have severe Multiple disabilities.

Having worked for over 40 years with children and adults with severe, multiple disabilities, Teresa brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to this workshop. Participants will learn strategies for language learning for young children just learning to talk, through young adults ready to launch into the workplace. This workshop is tailored to your program’s specific needs.

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Language Sampling for Goal-setting and progress monitoring in the school setting

Language sampling and analysis is not just for the Communication Sciences and Disorders graduate assistant. Rather, it is an effective, authentic, and reliable method for establishing baseline performance and periodically evaluating progress for a variety of speech and language disorders. Plan to refresh your skills in language sampling and analysis, and learn how these basic principles can be effectively applied in the school practice setting. As a result of taking in this course, participants will be able to:

  1. Identify 3 reasons for using speech and language sample analysis as part of the diagnostic process for several types of disorders.

  2. Identify key components of reliable language sample elicitation, according to research.

  3. Analyze a language sample to establish baseline performance for a young child with a speech-language disorder.

Video Modeling as a communication and behavior learning tool for Individuals with significant learning difficulties

With tablets and smart phones readily at hand, video models for individuals who have pragmatic language disorders, autism, intellectual disabilities, difficulty with social interaction or who use AAC can open the way to greater understanding of complex situations and greater independence in community interactions.

Video is a powerful tool, which has the advantage of focus ing attention on the key issues at hand, such as: What is the point of playing tag? How do you do it? By watching a model, perhaps at reduced speed, or with subtitles or various vantage points, an individual can learn how to interact in what is typically a fast-moving situation, with no time for repetition or clarification. Individuals can also learn to evaluate their own performance by reviewing it on video.

This hands-on workshop will allow participants to script and create a video for use with their clients.