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.