ONLINE: Sound Evidence: Clinical Management of SSD in Children

NOTE: $10 from every ticket sold will be donated to UNICEF to support the COVID-19 Crisis in India.

Online Learning

Session 1 Tuesday 15th June 2021, 8.00am-11.00am NZST

Session 2 Thursday 17th June 2021, 8.00am-11.00am NZST

Sessions 1 and 2 will be recorded for later viewing until the 22nd of June 2021. Single registration cost is for each individual, not per site. Each person must register and attendance is required for both sessions. Zoom will be used to deliver the training with “meeting room” details emailed to participants prior to each module. You will need to download Zoom software to your computer. A webcam and inbuilt microphone on your computer is also preferable so you can fully participate.

Intended Participants

This online Continuing Professional Development (CPD) event is intended for students and practitioners in speech-language pathology/speech-language therapy interested in evidence based interventions for children with speech sound disorders.

Readings and Resources

There are no recommended pre-readings, however, registrants will be required to print out handouts in advance to complete different analyses. Different coloured pens and a highlighter will needed during the event to be able to fully participate in the activities.

Learning Objectives

Following this event participants will be able to:

• Complete the phonological analyses of disordered speech using an error analysis (PVM analysis) and a systematic analysis (SPACS).
• Apply current research evidence to design and implement an appropriate methodology for a child’s speech sound disorder.
• Use clinical reasoning to select the most appropriate models for phonological analysis, target selection, and intervention.

Content and Format

The purpose of this seminar is to discuss evidence-based practices related to the clinical management of speech sound disorders (SSD) in children. Principles of phonological analysis, target selection, and intervention will be presented with emphasis on integrating current research evidence with clinical reasoning to determine the most appropriate approaches to implement with particular subgroups of children with SSD. The Phonological Intervention Taxonomy will be discussed as a way for making reasoned clinical decisions about interventions.

About Dr A. Lynn Williams

Lynn Williams is Associate Dean in the College of Clinical and Rehabilitative Health Sciences at East Tennessee State University and Professor in the Department of Audiology & Speech-Language Pathology. Her research has focused on development of a new model of phonological intervention called multiple oppositions that has been the basis of federally funded intervention studies by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). She is also well known for developing the phonological intervention software program called Sound Contrasts in Phonology (SCIP). Dr Williams has co-edited a book on Interventions for Speech Sound Disorders in Children, which is now in its second edition and was released in Nov 2020. She is a Fellow of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association and is the 2021 ASHA President.