Kaufman workshop Friday Sept 12 at Saint 's College...Notre Dame, IN

[Guest guest]

Kaufman will be at Saint ’s College in Notre

Dame, IN on Sept 12, 2008 for an all day workshop for parents and professionals…we

have tried very hard to make this affordable for everyone ($50 for

professionals, which includes CEUs for SLPs) $20 for parents, and $10 for

students. The registration fee also includes lunch and a morning snack.

See attached brochure for details. Although DSFSAG is

sponsoring the workshop, ANY interested parent or professional is encouraged to

attend.

Here is more information about Kaufman:

R. Kaufman, M.A., CCC/SLP is the Director of the Kaufman Children's

Center for Speech, Language, Sensory-Motor, and Social Connections, Inc. (KCC).

The KCC has been open since 1992, and now houses a large staff of talented and

exceptional speech and language pathologists, occupational therapists, behavior

analysts, a reading specialist, and a psychologist.

has specialized in children with communication challenges for over twenty

five years. She is the author of The Kaufman

Speech Praxis Test for Children, published in 1995 by Wayne State

University Press, The Kaufman Speech Praxis Treatment Kit for Children:Basic Level,

The Kaumfan Speech Praxis

Treatment Kit for Children:Advanced Level, The Kaufman Speech Praxis

Workout Book, and The

K & K Sign and Say, all published by Northern Speech Services. She lectures locally,

nationally, and internationally on the subject of apraxia of speech in

children. Families from around the country and Canada travel to the KCC to

participate in intensive and specialized programs created to meet the

needs of their children. She received her bachelor's degree at Michigan State

University, and Master's Degree at Wayne State University, having been awarded

a Graduate Assistantship. She has three children of her own. is highly

regarded as an expert in her specialized field of apraxia of speech, and

consults with parents and professionals the world over. The Applied Verbal Behavior

Program (AVB) has recently adopted the Kaufman

Approach into their protocol for children on the spectrum of autism. The

KCC is also becoming well known for their work with autism, PDD,

auditory-linguistic processing challenges, and sensory integrative challenges

in children. The Kaufman Children's Center for Speech, Language, and Sensory

Disorders, Inc. was the recipient of the 2001 Michigan Speech-Language-Hearing

Association's Clinical Service Award.

Please pass this on to anyone who may be interested in

attending.

Thanks.

KathyR

http://www.michianadownsyndrome.org