An Integrated Approach to Treatment of Childhood Apraxia of Speech

by Margaret Fish
April 22, 2010
Reg. 8:30 AM, Workshop 9:00 AM - 3:00 PM

Description/Bio: Children with Childhood Apraxia of Speech (CAS) typically don't benefit from traditional articulation or phonological therapy techniques. This presentation will highlight methods for helping children with CAS develop greater volitional control over their speech, improve vowel accuracy, expand syllable shape and phoneme repertoire, and establish increased speech intelligibility. Video clips demonstrating a wide range of multisensory cueing techniques will be reviewed. A wide variety of materials and activities to support repetitive practice and address speech prosody difficulties will be described. Participants will have opportunities to view case studies in order to develop a treatment plan or IEP and to determine appropriate target utterances for treatment.

Margaret Fish is a speech-language pathologist with over 25 years of experience working with children in school and clinical settings. She currently works in private practice in Highland Park, Illinois, primarily with children with severe speech sound disorders (including apraxia), receptive and expressive language disorders, autism and language-learning disabilities. Ms. Fish lectures nationally on the topic of childhood apraxia of speech and is in the process of completing a book, Here's How to Treat Childhood Apraxia of Speech. She enjoys working closely with families and school personnel in order to increase opportunities for generalization of speech and language skills.

This training will provide 5.0 hours for the following:

• CPDUs (Continuing Professional Development Units) for teacher certification
• CDA (Child Development Associate) credit in area(s) #2
• CE credit for SLP, SW, LCPC, PT, and OT professionals

Full attendance is required to receive a certificate of participation.

In collaboration with Rivers Special Education District.

Registration form for this workshop.