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Short Courses * Saturday
ACADEMIC AND CLINICAL
EDUCATION (GI)
Empowering, Strengths-Based
Approaches to Working with Older
Adults with Communication Challenges
SA 8:30AM-11:30AM
Marriott/Atrium 3

Session: SC24
3 Hrs

Level: Intermediate Type: Professional Education
Presented by: Brooke Hallowell, Ohio U
This session is developed by, and
presenters invited by, SIG 15:
Gerontology. This course is dedicated
to helping clinicians enhance clinical
excellence for work with older adults.
Join us to consider stereotypes
and assumptions about aging that
may negatively affect assessment,
treatment, and access to care. Review
neurophysiological changes influencing
cognition and language as people
age, including positive, life‑enhancing
changes. Discuss means of differentiating
"normal" from "impaired" communication
abilities in older people from a strengths‑
based perspective. Consider holistic
strategies for promoting life participation
for older people.

AUGMENTATIVE AND ALTERNATIVE
COMMUNICATION (AAC) (SLP)
A Call for Interprofessional
Collaboration: Meeting Needs of
Individuals with Severe Disabilities as
Professional Partners
SA 8:30AM-11:30AM
Marriott/Olympic 2

Session: SC25
3 Hrs

Level: Intermediate Type: Professional Education
Presented by: Bill Ogletree, Western Carolina U;
Karen Erickson, U of North Carolina Chapel Hill;
Judith Schoonover, Loudoun County Pub Schs
This session is developed by, and
presenters invited by, Augmentative
and Alternative Communication (AAC).
Complexities inherent in care for
persons with severe disabilities make
collaborative practice a logical choice
for service providers. Accepting this
idea, however, must occur only after
consideration of the evidence for

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Interprofessional Collaborative Practice
(IPCP). This course explores IPCP and
reviews its clinical effectiveness. It
provides a definition of severe disabilities
and argues for IPCP with this special
population. IPCP practice examples are
provided in literacy, movement, and
assistive technology instruction.

FLUENCY (SLP)
Stuttering Across the Lifespan: Issues
Impacting Quality of Life
SA 8:30AM-11:30AM
Marriott/Atrium 1

Session: SC26
3 Hrs

Level: Intermediate Type: Professional Education
Presented by: Rodney Gabel, Ohio U; Derek
Daniels, Wayne St U; Michael Azios, Lamar U
This session is developed by, and
presenters invited by, Fluency and SIG 4:
Fluency and Fluency Disorders. A panel
of speakers will discuss the impact of
stuttering on quality of life across the
lifespan. Issues specific to middle school,
high school and university/college will be
presented. Panel speakers will share their
knowledge and experiences gleaned
from a larger group of students who
stutter across a wide variety of contexts.

HEARING AND BALANCE
SCIENCE (AUD)
Contributions of Cognition & Hearing
Loss to Speech Perception in Noise
SA 8:30AM-11:30AM
Marriott/Atrium 2

Session: SC27
3 Hrs

Level: Intermediate Type: Research Submission
Presented by: Curtis Billings, Nat'l Ctr for
Rehabilitative Auditory Research, Oregon Health &
Science U; Erick Gallun, Nat'l Ctr for Rehabilitative
Auditory Research, Oregon Health & Science U

This session is developed by, and
presenters invited by, SIG 6: Hearing
and Hearing Disorders: Research and
Diagnostics. Within human auditory
sciences, the influence of neural coding
and cognitive abilities on speech
perception is especially important,
particularly when perception difficulties in
background noise are considered. It may

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be that large portions of the variability
present across individuals can be
explained by differences in neural coding
and/or cognition. Research findings
relating speech perception to measures
of spatial release from masking, neural
coding, and cognition will be discussed.

LANGUAGE IN INFANTS, TODDLERS,
AND PRESCHOOLERS (SLP)
Addressing the Language Impact of
Growing Up from a Background of
Poverty/Low Resources
SA 8:30AM-11:30AM
Marriott/Georgia 1/2

Session: SC28
3 Hrs

Level: Intermediate Type: Professional Education
Presented by: Catherine Gottfred, LEAP; John
Lybolt, LEAP; Nina Smith, LEAP; Elizabeth Norton,
Northwestern U; Tommie Robinson, Jr, Children's
Hearing & Speech Ctr
This session is developed by, and
presenters invited by, Language in
Infants, Toddlers, and Preschoolers.
During this presentation, we will discuss
how issues of poverty or persistent low‑
resource environments negatively impact
initial and continuing language‑learning
of children. Detrimental effects on
educational, social, pragmatic, executive
functioning, memory, and organizational
skills are discussed, with meaningful
programmatic and treatment strategies
for the SLP. The panel includes experts
from LEAP; Language Empowers All
People (working in inner city Chicago
since 1980), Northwestern University,
and The George Washington University
School of Medicine.
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