Functional and Affirming Intervention Practices in Paediatric Speech Pathology

This workshop will address some of the key questions speech-language pathologists frequently have about what to work on – and how – when providing therapy to clients with a range of communication difficulties. It is designed for both early career and experienced speech-language pathologists working in a range of settings such as schools, government or non-government organisations, and private practice. It is targeted to paediatric speech-language pathologists, but may also have relevance to those working with mixed caseloads including an adult disability population. Workshop content and goal examples will focus specifically on language difficulties that impact children with neurodevelopmental diagnoses including DLD, autism, and ADHD. Areas covered will include culturally-responsive goals and intervention, neurodiversity-affirming goals and intervention, supporting children with self-advocacy through language intervention, and common caseload questions. Attendees will be able to submit case study questions ahead of the workshop.

Learning Objectives 

Participants attending the workshop will have an opportunity to:

• Learn about the social model of disability and its impact on speech-language pathology service delivery
•  Implement culturally-sensitive and neurodiversity-affirming practice in goal-setting for semantics (vocabulary), morphology and syntax (grammar), and discourse (text)
• Learn about available therapy programs and resources for these goals
• Learn how to advocate for clients to ensure reasonable adjustments and accommodations are considered and provided by community stakeholders (families, schools, and support staff)
• Learn how to teach perspective-taking and self-advocacy skills with Autistic, ADHD or DLD clients in an affirming way
• Develop a ‘goal bank’ for culturally-sensitive and neurodiversity-affirming intervention

Speech Language Therapists interested in this event can register via Humanitix - https://events.humanitix.com/online-functional-and-affirming-intervention-practices-in-paediatric-speech-pathology?hxchl=hex-pfl

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