ANNUAL Fall CONFERENCE

Elizabeth Crais, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, ASHA Fellow from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her research includes identification and intervention of young children with ASD. She has had multiple ASD-focused research grants, and with colleagues has developed ASD screening tools, and both home-based parent-mediated and preschool-based interventions for children with ASD. Dr. Crais will present two sessions at the conference, a Friday morning session titled Identifying and Assessing Infants, Toddlers, and Preschoolers with Autism Spectrum Disorder and an afternoon session titled Intervention with Infants, Toddlers, and Preschoolers with Autism Spectrum DisorderIntervention with Infants, Toddlers, and Preschoolers with Autism Spectrum Disorder.

Valencia Perry, PhD, CCC-SLP is an assistant professor of child language and sociolinguistics at Howard University. She is a bilingual (Spanish/English) clinical-researcher aiming to promote linguistic equity in systems and practices for cultural and linguistically diverse people. She conducts and shares clinically relevant research that elevates professional practice. Dr. Perry will be presenting two sessions at the conference, a Friday morning session titled Putting the Clinical Component into Clinical Research: How to Really Integrate Single-Subject Research Designs into Your Practice and an afternoon session titled Speak-Read-Write: Written Language Considerations into SLP Evaluations for Bilingual Hispanic and African-American Students in K-12 Settings.

In order to tailor her presentation to the needs of our audience, Dr. Perry has posed two questions that are up on our Facebook page. Please add your comments in response here.

Emily D. Quinn, Ph.D., CCC-SLP is a speech-language pathologist and researcher at Oregon Health and Science University. Her research and clinical interests include language interventions for children with neurodevelopmental disabilities, augmentative and alternative communication and telepractice. Dr. Quinn will be presenting two sessions at the conference, a Friday morning session titled Literacy Intervention for Individuals with Complex Communication Needs and an afternoon session titled Caregiver-Implemented Interventions for Children, Adolescents, and Adults who use AAC.

Nancy B. Swigert, M.A., CCC-SLP, BCS-S, is president of Swigert & Assoc., Inc., her consulting company through which she continues to teach and write in the areas of dysphagia, voice and motor speech disorders, coding and reimbursement and documentation and supervision. She has authored multiple clinical resource books. She will be presenting two sessions at the conference, a Friday morning session titled Avoidant-Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID): Food selectivity and Refusal and an afternoon session titled Physiologically-Based Treatment for Oral and Pharyngeal Dysphagia: What Evidence and Principles Support It?