FYI-- Workshop in Stamford Ct

[Guest guest]

Childhood Apraxia of Speech:

New Perspectives on Assessment and Treatment

a one-day workshop with

Hammer, MA, CCC-SLP

Stamford, CT

Next Friday, October 23,2009

Sponsored by Childhood Apraxia of Speech Association of North America

REMINDER ABOUT this interactive, treatment based workshop

on Childhood Apraxia of Speech!

Friday, October 23, 2009

University of Connecticut Conference Center

Room 108

20 Broad Street

Stamford, CT 06901

Course Overview:

This hands-on, practical, therapy-rich presentation will focus on strategies for

clinicians that facilitate verbal communication for children with apraxia of

speech. An overview of diagnostic considerations will be presented. The majority

of the presentation will be intervention-based, with a wide range of treatment

ideas described. A multi-sensory approach to treatment will be detailed.

Videotaped examples of children in treatment will be used to highlight therapy

ideas and suggestions for carryover outside of the treatment setting.

Challenging cases will be discussed as well as those that have been more

successful in treatment. Suggested therapy resources will be discussed.

Attendees will leave with creative, practical, and useful ideas they can begin

using immediately in treatment for their clients with childhood apraxia of

speech.

The majority of the cases presented will be of toddler, preschool, and early

school-age, although videotapes of older children will be used to enhance

discussion regarding this age group.

The Speaker:

Dave Hammer, M.A. CCC-SLP has been employed by Children’s Hospital of

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania since graduating with his Master’s in Speech-Language

Pathology in 1979. He has been the Coordinator of Speech and Language Services

at the Children’s Hospital North satellite facility since 1988.

Dave has a wide range of clinical experience, with specialty in apraxia of

speech in children, childhood and adolescent stuttering, and severe

articulation/phonological disorders. Dave has been invited to present workshops

on apraxia of speech throughout the United States, Canada, and Australia. He

brings a “hands-on†perspective to his presentations, which include

extensive videotaped segments of treatment in action.

Dave was a member of the ASHA AdHoc committee on childhood apraxia of speech and

is currently a member of the Childhood Apraxia of Speech Association of North

America Advisory Board. He has been a significant contributor to the production

of the children’s CD “Time to Singâ€, the introduction to apraxia DVD

“Hope Speaksâ€, and the DVD on “Treatment Strategies for Childhood Apraxia

of Speechâ€.

This program is offered for .7 ASHA CE's. CASANA (Childhood Apraxia of Speech

Association of North America) is an approved provider of ASHA Continuing

Education Credits.

For more information and to register for the workshop please visit CASANA's

website workshop page, please click here.

Childhood Apraxia of Speech Association of North America

1151 Freeport Road, #243

Pittsburgh, PA 15238

Phone: (412)343-7102

Internet: Apraxia-KIDS.org