Cost: Member - $35 | Non-Member - $50
About the Event:
Children with childhood apraxia of speech (CAS) are varied and dynamic. There is no one-size fits all approach and rarely is one approach recommended for the entire time a child is receiving speech language therapy. This presentation will help guide clinical decision making, providing the research and resources made available, to tailor the treatment technique to the child’s age and level of speech motor proficiency. For example, where multisensory cuing (Hammer & Ebert, 2018), Prompts for Restructuring Oral Muscular Phonetic Targets (PROMPT) (Dale & Haden, 2013) and Dynamic Temporal Tactile Cuing (DTTC) (Strand, 2020) may be more helpful in early speech motor development, programs that integrate phonological awareness (McNeill, Gillon, & Dodd, 2009) and address prosody, like Rapid Syllable Transition (ReST), benefits older children who are able to sequence most sounds, but still have residual errors in co-articulation and prosody (McCabe, Murray, & Thomas, 2018) and literacy. These therapy programs and others will be discussed.
Presenter: Amy Meredith, Ph.D., CCC-SLP
Learning Objectives:
Participants will be able to:
Explain two motor learning principles and how they apply to treatment of children with CAS.
Identify which therapy technique is appropriate for a child given their age and stage of motor development.
Incorporate phonological awareness into motor speech therapy.
About the Presenter:
Amy Skinder-Meredith, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, is a Clinical Professor and Chair of the Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences in the Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine at Washington State University in Spokane. She is an experienced clinician who has worked in the university clinic, public school, hospital, and private practice settings. Her primary clinical and research interest is in children with motor speech disorders and has published and presented her research on CAS at national conferences. She has run an intensive summer two-week camp for children with CAS and their families since 2013. Dr. Skinder-Meredith has given numerous workshops for practicing speech-language pathologists across the country, in Canada and Guatemala on assessment and treatment of CAS. She is the co-author of “Here’s How to Treat Childhood Apraxia of Speech, 3rd Edition.” Dr. Skinder Meredith earned her PhD from the University of Washington under the mentorship of Dr. Strand and Dr. Stoel Gammon.
Disclosures:
Financial: Co-author of "Here's How To Treat Childhood Apraxia of Speech, 3rd edition" which I will reference in the presentation. I receive royalties for this publication.
Non-Financial: Serves on Apraxia Kids professional advisory board.
This program will be recorded for later viewing up to 14 days following the workshop. WSLHA will send out a link to the recording after the live session.
Intermediate Level – 0.15 ASHA CEUs
OSPI Clock Hours – 1.5 hours
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