Saturday February 8, 2020

SHORT COURSES:

Siva Priya Santhanam, Ph. D., CCC-SLP Assistant Professor, Speech, Language, Hearing Sciences, Metropolitan State University of Denver

Communication in Minimally Verbal Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders: What do we know regarding assessment and intervention?

The main goal of this presentation is to discuss the strengths and challenges of minimally verbal children with autism spectrum disorder, and to describe different aspects of service delivery including coaching paraprofessionals and educators, collaborating with behavioral therapists, describing methods for communication assessment and intervention. Case-based scenarios will be used for discussions.

Rosslyn Delmonico, Speech Language Pathologist, MA, RSLP, CCC (SLP) Bubba & Munch Speech Language Services

Social Language Skills Training within Schools - A Collaboration Enhancing Approach

This presentation explores five critical steps to encourage successful collaboration within school settings. It provides an applied example in the area of social communication. The objective is to have participants leave this seminar inspired by ideas and strategies to incorporate into their collaborative model’s; specifically in the area of social communication.

Social Language Instruction for Individuals, Small Groups and Classrooms: Steps and Strategies

This presentation focuses on practical application of teaching strategies that attendees can immediately implement within a variety of service delivery environments. The Conversation Cottage model will be presented as an applied method of assessment and awareness for both the clinician and the client. It provides a “Conversational Blueprint” that the attendees can reference as they set out to more efficiently understand how to effectively teach their children how to become adept conversationalists - to the best of their ability.

Lara Dunn, MA, CCC-SLP, Jefferson County Public Schools

Self-Care: Practical strategies to get off the busy-ness train and take care of your most valuable asset: YOU.

Ever feel overwhelmed with your commitments, to-do lists, and/or life? Do you build in time to take care of yourself before or while you take care of all the other stuff? Join this course to discover research and evidence-based self-care strategies that are practical to weave into any part of your busy days/lives. Topics include, and are not limited to, mindfulness, meditation, play, and self-compassion. You will learn about and partake in a wide variety of hands-on and experiential activities that you can readily incorporate into your life. There are also many activities that you can share with family and friends as well as implement with clients/students/patients across a variety of clinical settings.

**Please wear comfy clothing and feel free to bring an object of comfort such as a teddy bear, pillow, and/or fuzzy blanket.