Kaufman in Raleigh, NC

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Children with Apraxia of Speech: An Early Intervention Program

When: Dec 2, 2005

Speaker: Kaufman, M.A., CCC/SLP

Location: Raleigh, NC - Raleigh/Durham Airport Hilton

To register:

http://www.nss-nrs.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/NSS.woa/wa/Seminars/detail?id=1000493

Learn how to implement a word simplification hierarchy, how to avoid the trap

of focusing exclusively on motor speech issues, how multiple disorders can

complicate the diagnostic and treatment process and much, much more.

Children who may have an adequate repertoire of consonants and vowels in

isolation may not be able to coordinate the oral motor movements necessary to

produce and combine these units to form syllables, words, phrases, and

sentences.

These children may be unable to speak or may be unintelligible speakers. They

may even have difficulty executing the oral motor movements necessary to

produce isolated phonemes. These are the children who can benefit from the

techniques taught in this course. This clinical program will focus on the

evaluation

and treatment of children with developmental apraxia of speech. Included in

this presentation will be a history of apraxia of speech, definitions of apraxia

and phonology, the differential diagnosis of articulatory vs. apraxia

disorders, and primary practical treatment methods. The methods, strategies and

techniques presented at this program will provide clinicians with the

information

they need to help children with developmental apraxia of speech progress from a

simple core vocabulary to phrases and eventually to sentences and

conversational speech. In addition, treatment videotapes will be used to enhance

the

learning experience. Main focus will be children ages two to six years.