SPAND Continuing education meetings take place the first Tuesday of  the month in September, Octber, November, and May. There is a Saturday workshop in February. All are held in Richardson at the new Region 10 Abrams location at 904 Abrams Road in the Pecan Room. Registration is from 6:00 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. SPAND meetings begin promptly at 6:30 p.m. and sessions will end punctually at 8:30 p.m. 2.0 TX CEU’s are awarded at the cessation of each meeting. There are 6.0 CEU’s awarded at the Saturday Workshop.  Membership dues are $40 per year and must be paid on or before the September meeting of each year. Non-members may attend for $15 for each meeting. Students may attend the evening meetings for free and the Saturday workshops for $5.

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September 1, 2009 - Counseling Skills in Clinical Practice by Kathy Thomas

Objectives:

• Understand why counseling skills are important in the clinical process.
• Understand the key clinician characteristics that facilitate effective counseling.
• Identify common physical and emotional barriers that impede effective counseling
• Understand clinicians can better serve special populations (multicultural, low-income, elderly) through developing a specialized approach to clinical counseling methods.

November 3, 2009- Developing a Dementia Program by Peggy Watson and Nancy Shadowens

Objectives:

• Understand normal aging vs. dementia and differentiate between the various types of dementias and how they present; identify potential candidates based on an understanding of the dementia process; recognize the various types of  memory as a basis for dementia management.
• Describe dementia in terms of ‘staging’; learn effective goal writing for SLP/OT/PT’s, learn successful interventions with difficult patients and utilize appropriate strategies and activities for achieving stated goals.
• Learn why functional maintenance programs (FMP) are important conclusions to each dementia therapy; SLP/OT/PT’s will learn how to write FMP content consistent with Medicare guidelines; learn to implement the FMP partnering with nurses; be able to develop a quarterly screening protocol.
• Learn about nurses unique role in producing a successful dementia program, for this type of programming is most successful with a team approach.

December, January- Off for holidays

February 27 (Saturday Workshop)- Applied Behavior Analysis and Speech-Language Therapy - by Kellie Rodriguez

Educational Objectives:

Participants Will:

1) Develop an understanding of ABA strategies and how they enhance the speech and language development of all children, especially those with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD).

2) Explore ABA as a tool to achieve 2 favorable outcomes: functional communication via verbal behavior and reduction of maladaptive behaviors via behavior modification.

3) Learn to effectively implement the ABA strategies that will immediately impact the success of therapy sessions and classroom instruction.

4) Develop an understanding of the role of the Speech-Language Pathologist within instructional settings utilizing Applied Behavior Analysis.

5) Discover how ABA-strategies can be useful in improving the social language and behavior of higher-functioning students with ASD.

May 4, 2010 - Childhood Apraxia of Speech:  Fact or Fiction? by Lynn K. Flahive

Objectives:

• 1) Identify characteristics of childhood apraxia of speech, including exclusionary criteria

  2) Examine the efficacy of oral motor treatment

  3) Distinguish between various treatment techniques when working with childhood apraxia of speech

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