Live Workshops and Presentations

Earn ASHA CEUs and increase your success in serving culturally diverse populations. After nearly a decade of presenting on multicultural issues, our presentations are entertaining, rich in useful content, and target the diversity that our caseloads enjoy.

Sample presentations:  Bilingual Language Development, Language Assessment of Bilingual Children, Bilingualism, Cognition, and Academic Achievement, Language Development in Bilingual Infants and Toddlers

Previous presentations: 20112010, 2009, 2008

 

Assessment and Intervention with English Language Learners: A Bilingual Approach

April, 5th, 2012

San Antonio Speech, Hearing, and Language Association (SASHLA)

Region 20 Service Center, San Antonio, Texas

Participants will list, identify, describe…
  • Reasons for testing both languages
  • Formal and informal measures for testing ELLs
  • Use of tests when a student is not represented in the normative sample
  • Selection of the language of intervention
  • Development of appropriate goals

Handouts – Assessment and Intervention with ELLs- A bilingual approach

Ellen Kester & Scott Prath

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Language Intervention Strategies for Monolingual and Bilingual Children

April, 27th, 2012

9:00 – 11:30 a.m.  Bilingual TETN Series 2011-12 – Region 13 Texas Educational Service Center

Ellen Kester & Scott Prath

Therapy programs should mimic your student’s classroom environment so that new skills can be generalized across the academic day. If both English and Spanish are used in the classroom, we’ll help you pick goals that are appropriate for both languages so that you can provide the most effecient treatment possible.

Handouts – Language Intervention Strategies for Monolingual and Bilingual Children

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Success with Speech Disorders: Considerations for Intervention with Monolinguals and Bilinguals

March 30th, 2012

9:00 – 11:30 a.m.  Bilingual TETN Series 2011-12 – Region 13 Texas Educational Service Center

MaryBauman and Keith Lebel

This course provides a framework for better classification of speech disorders.  Research has shown a benefit to using different therapy techniques for different speech disorders.  We’ll arm you with ways to better define your students and give you intervention strategies to best match their specific deficit.
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Literacy-Based Intervention: From Theory to Practice

March 9th, 2012

11:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.  Texas Speech-Language Hearing Association Annual Conference, San Antonio, Texas

Alyson Hendry & Kara Anderson Sanchez

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Maximizing Treatment Effects with VPI and Cleft Lip and Palate

March 9th, 2012

4:00 – 5:30 p.m.  Texas Speech-Language Hearing Association Annual Conference, San Antonio, Texas

Scott Prath & Keith Lebel

The task of working with craniofacial anomalies can be incredibly daunting due to anatomical limitations, reduced air pressure, changes due to maturity and surgeries, and family acceptance.   This course includes a review of development and uses charts, reproducible materials, and a case study to demonstrate tangible success in intervention.

Handouts – Maximizing Treatment Effects with VPI and Cleft Lip and Palate

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Even More Ethical Considerations for Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Populations

March 9th, 2012

1:30 – 3:30 p.m.  Texas Speech-Language Hearing Association Annual Conference, San Antonio, Texas

Ellen Kester & Scott Prath

Speech-language pathologists who work with clients from other cultures and other language backgrounds often have ethical concerns about the services they are expected to provide.  In this presentation we consider the ASHA Code of Ethics, its relation to multicultural populations, and numerous case studies of SLPs in the field.

Handouts – Even More Ethical Considerations

 

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SMILE for Young Children: a Bilingual Program for Improving Communication Skills

March 9th, 2012

10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.  Texas Speech-Language Hearing Association Annual Conference, San Antonio, Texas

Marie Wirka & Katherine Marting

Handouts – Smile for Young Children TSHA

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Cultural Competency and Evaluation of Children from Diverse Backgrounds

March 8th, 2012

4:00 – 6:00 a.m.  Texas Speech-Language Hearing Association Annual Conference, San Antonio, Texas

Keith Lebel & Meagan Morgan

Handouts – CLD Assessment TSHA 2012

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An iPad Speech Assessment for English and Spanish Speakers

March 8th, 2012

8:00 – 9:00 a.m.  Texas Speech-Language Hearing Association Annual Conference, San Antonio, Texas

Mary Bauman & Barbara Fernandes

Handouts – Ipad Speech Assessment App 030512


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Typical Speech Development in Bilinguals

February 24th, 2012

9:00 – 11:30 a.m.  Bilingual TETN Series 2011-12 – Region 13 Texas Educational Service Center

Ellen Kester & Scott Prath

This training includes information on English and Spanish, Arabic/Pharsi, Urdu, Mandarin/Cantonese, Tagolog, and Vietnemese: It is designed to increase understanding of speech foundations and culture to successfully work with interpreters.

Presentation Slides   Handouts Language Sample

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Maximizing Treatment Effects with VPI and Cleft Lip and Palate

February 4th, 2012

9:00 – 11:30 a.m.  Austin Area Association of Speech-Language Pathologists – McFadden Auditorium, Seton Medical Center – Austin, Texas

Scott Prath & Keith Lebel

The task of working with craniofacial anomalies can be incredibly daunting due to anatomical limitations, reduced air pressure, changes due to maturity and surgeries, and family acceptance.   This course includes a review of development and uses charts, reproducible materials, and a case study to demonstrate tangible success in intervention.

Handouts

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SLPs Helping Teachers Understand Bilingual Language Development: The Road to Good Referrals

January  27th, 2012

9:00 – 11:30 a.m.  Bilingual TETN Series 2011-12 – Region 13 Texas Educational Service Center

Ellen Kester & Scott Prath

This training is geared for monolingual and bilingual speech language pathologists and teachers work with bilingual children.

Handouts

 

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