Hawaii Speech-Language-Hearing Association 41sr Annual Convention
Literacy: Building The Foundation To Overcome Challenges
Date: March 8 and 9, 2018
Time:8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Place: Pomaikai Ballrooms at Dole Cannery
Honolulu, Hawaii 96818
Convention Overview
This convention will examine assessment and treatment of literacy abilities across the four modalities of listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Evidence-based practices for building foundational skills and providing intervention strategies to support literacy and academic language learning will be discussed.
Learner Outcomes:Upon completion of this event participants will be able to:
- Identify differences between profiles for students with oral-written language disorders, dyslexia, and specific comprehension deficits
- Describe evidence based approaches for treating problems at the sound/word level and the sentence/discourse level
- Discuss how to collaborate with other professionals to address students’ comprehensive language and literacy needs.
Time Ordered Agenda
Day 1 = 360 minutes
90 min Session 1.Language levels and modalities.
90 minSession 2. How to conduct comprehensive assessment and intervention
90 min Session 3. Tailoring interventions to meet student’s unique learning profiles
90 min Session 4. Case examples
Day 2 = 360 minutes
90 minSession 1.Introduction to Audiology 101: Review and Update
90 minSession 2. Auditory Processing Disorders in Children and Adults: Part 1. Identification and Diagnosis
90 minSession 3. Auditory Processing Disorders in Children and Adults: Part 2. A Team Approach to Management
90 minSession 4. Auditory Disorders Contribute to Reading Disorders: A Strategy for Identification and Remediation
Day 1– Dr. Nickola Wolf-Nelson
Session 1 (90 min )
Title: Language levels and modalities.
Description: This session will provide the background for understanding the two dimensions of sound/word and sentence/discourse level abilities that underlie both oral and written, receptive and expressive language
Session 2. (90 min)
Title: How to conduct comprehensive assessment and intervention
Description: In this session, participants will learn how to use the Test of Integrated Language and Literacy Skills (TILLS) and other tools to build a comprehensive profile of strengths and needs that can help them know what to do next
Session 3 (90 min)
Title: Tailoring interventions to meet student’s unique learning profiles
Description: In this session, participants will consider targets, methods, and service delivery models for addressing problems at the sound/word level, with a focus on explicit teaching of word-structure knowledge, compared with the different targets, methods, and models for addressing problems at the sentence/discourse level, which requires more naturalistic address to classroom based communication – comprehension and formulation.
Session 4 (90 min)
Title: Case examples
Description: In the final session, participants will consider case examples and practice problem solving and considering outcomes that may be realized when a comprehensive approach is taken.
Day 2- Dr. James Hall
Session 1 (90 minutes)
Title: Introduction to Audiology 101: Review and Update
Description: It’s important for speech pathologists to have: 1) a general understanding of the anatomy and physiology of the auditory system, 2) knowledge and skills necessary for hearing screening, 3) an appreciation for common etiologies of hearing loss in children and adults, such as otitis media and presbycusis, 4) technological options for management of hearing loss like amplification, FM systems, and cochlear implants, and 5) identification, diagnosis, and intervention for auditory processing disorders (APD). This course taught by a dually certified audiologist and speech pathologist offers a clinically-oriented review and update of these topics for speech pathologists practicing in school, hospital, and private work settings.
Session 2 (90 minutes)
Title: Auditory Processing Disorders in Children and Adults: Part 1. Identification and Diagnosis
Description: Audiologists and speech pathologists contribute to the identification and evaluation of children and adults with auditory processing disorders (APD) and related disorders. Part 1 of this 3-hour course provides an updated review of the following topics pertaining to pediatric and adult populations: 1) Risk factors for APD, 2) Disorders and diseases associated with APD, 3) Disorders co-existing with APD, 4) Test batteries for efficient and accurate diagnosis of APD, and 5) Role of the speech pathologist in differentiating auditory versus language explanations for poor APD test performance. Practical information provided in the course is consistent with clinical practice guidelines of the American Academy of Audiology (AAA) and American Speech Language Hearing Association (ASHA).
Session 3 (90 minutes)
Title: Auditory Processing Disorders in Children and Adults: Part 2. A Team Approach to Management
Description: Audiologists and speech pathologists together are responsible for management of children and adults with auditory processing disorders (APD). Part 2 of this 3-hour course focuses on management or intervention for APD in pediatric and adult populations. The following topics are addressed: 1) “Bottom-up” management options for APD, 2) Benefits of FM technology in management of APD, 3) “Top-down” management options for APD, and 4) Team approach for APD assessment and management. Practical information provided in the course is consistent with clinical practice guidelines of the American Academy of Audiology (AAA) and American Speech Language Hearing Association (ASHA).
Session 4 (90 minutes)
Title: Auditory Disorders Contribute to Reading Disorders: A Strategy for Identification and Remediation
Description: Auditory processing plays an important but underappreciated role in the development of reading skills. Auditory processing disorders are related to deficits in phonological awareness and subsequent dyslexia. In this course the longstanding literature linking auditory function and reading is first summarized. Then, research is cited in support of the connections between disruptions in auditory processing and reading readiness. The remainder of the course is devoted to an explanation of a program … Early Auditory Reading Success or EARS … developed to identify in kindergarten children potential struggling readers and to pro-actively remediate auditory-based deficits in reading readiness.
Financial Disclosures
Dr. Nickola Nelson
Financial Disclosure: Dr. Nelson will be receiving an Honorarium, per diem and travel expenses from the Hawaii Speech-Language-Hearing Association for this presentation. She will be discussing two tools for which she receives royalties from Paul H. Brookes Publishing—the Test of Integrated Language and Literacy Skills (TILLS) and the Student Language Scale (SLS). Dr. Nelson’s university received federal grant support for the development of these tools and the writing lab approach, which she also will discuss during these sessions.
Non-Financial Disclosure: Dr. Nelson has no relevant non-financial relationships to disclose.
Dr. James Hall
Financial Disclosure: Dr. Hall will be receiving an Honorarium and per diem expenses from the Hawaii Speech-Language-Hearing Association for this presentation.
Non-Financial Disclosure: Dr. Nelson has no relevant non-financial relationships to disclose.
This course is offered for 1.20 ASHA CEUs (Intermediate level, Professional area).