Course Description
This one-day workshop will focus on two topics relevant to school-age children and adolescents with Social Skills before lunch (2.25 hours/0.225 CEU) and fluency disorders after lunch (3.0 hours/0.30 CEU). Topic areas to be addressed include the following:
A True Life Skill: Addressing Social Communication and Social Skills Needs
- Current social communication and social skills assessments that facilitate intervention target selection
- Evidence-based intervention approaches that support a mechanism of change for individuals with social communication and social skill difficulties
- Review evidence-based curricula that address social communication and social skills needs
- Review intervention resources that address social communication and social skills needs (children, adolescents, and young adults)
Assessing & Treating Fluency Disorders in School-age children
- Align with WHO-ICF to assess stuttering & cluttering
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- Assessment tools for addressing speech fluency, communication attitudes & abilities, quality of life across clients & caregivers
- Differential diagnosis features when evaluating preschool stuttering
- Differential diagnosis features for determining stuttering vs. cluttering
- Fluency-enhancing strategies across evidence-based intervention program
- Align with WHO-ICF to treat stuttering & cluttering
Electronic handouts will be made available prior to the event.
The conference will be live streamed from InterMountain ESD (Pendleton) to participating locations, including:
Baker School District (Baker City, OR)
Canby School District (Canby, OR)
Grant County ESD (John Day, OR)
Harney ESD (Burns, OR)
High Desert ESD (Redmond, OR)
InterMountain ESD (La Grande, OR)
Lake County ESD (Lakeview, OR)
Lane ESD (Eugene, OR)
Malheur ESD (Vale, OR)
North Central ESD (Wenatchee, WA)
Southern Oregon ESD (Medford, OR)
University of Oregon (Eugene, OR)
Willamette ESD (Salem, OR)
Additional participating sites are still being identified; please check back soon for new locations.
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