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Nina Reardon-Reeves has presented over 100 training workshops on the subject of stuttering and effective stuttering therapy. Her experience and current position as a speech pathologist in both school and private practice settings help to create a special insight into practical strategies that work with children and young adults who stutter.
Don't need a full seminar? Just need some expert advice? Consultations are available on-site for SLPs, parents, teachers, and administrators.
Below, you will find a sampling of the interactive workshops that Nina Reardon-Reeves has created. No matter what your continuing education needs, Nina can design a special package of topics geared to your specifications and time allotments. Click on the links below to go directly to the presentation description or scroll down to browse sample workshops.
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Presentations for speech-language pathologists:
Presentations for educators:
Presentations for parents and significant others:
Keynote and motivational presentations:
FOR SPEECH-LANGUAGE PATHOLOGISTS:
School Age Stuttering Therapy: A Prescription for Success
How do we “do” therapy with school age children who stutter? We can look to successful therapy in allied professions to inspire us. We must seek to increase our knowledge, refine our skills, and most importantly, understand the perspectives of the children who stutter and their families. Join us to write your own prescription for long-term success for school age children who stutter.
Recommended Length: Full Day
Target Audience: SLPs
Preschool Stuttering Therapy: Yes, we DO need to know this!
“I don't work with preschoolers” is a comment heard many times when we talk about stuttering therapy for the young child. Truth is, however, that no matter what population we work with now, it may not be the population we work with in the future. No matter what, sometime, somewhere a client, relative or friend is going to expect us to be a resource for a young child who is beginning to show signs of stuttering.
Recommended Length: Full Day
Target Audience: SLPs
School-Age Stuttering Therapy: What's in YOUR toolbox?
Many speech-language pathologists do not feel that they have a command of the basic speech management techniques involved in an integrated stuttering therapy model. This interactive session involves 2% theory and 98% role-play and practice of these essential speech and stuttering management skills.
Recommended Length: Half Day
Target Audience: SLPs
Beliefs and Feelings: Counseling children who stutter and their parents
Understanding and dealing with the beliefs and feelings of your student who stutters is an integral aspect of successful stuttering therapy. This workshop highlights the most common problems faced by a child who stutters, and outlines several counseling and communication techniques that therapists can integrate into the therapy process.
Recommended Length: Half Day to Full Day
Target Audience: SLPs
Collaborating with Parents and Teachers in Stuttering Therapy
Children who stutter are best served when a TEAM approach is utilized. Involving parents and teachers in the process of stuttering therapy can be problematic in several service delivery atmospheres. This workshop provides creative techniques for integration of significant others into the therapy process. Discussion will include successful ideas for educating and counseling parents, teachers, and siblings. “Use on Monday” handouts are provided.
Recommended Length: Half Day
Target Audience: SLPs
Taming the Tiger: Overcoming Obstacles Facing Speech–Language Pathologists in the Schools
School-based speech language pathologists face a multitude of challenges to providing “best-practice” services to the students on their caseloads. This truth generates many pitfalls for the profession as a whole, and to individuals interested in improving the quality of stuttering therapy, in particular.
This presentation outlines the obstacles that SLPs are facing in the school setting. Concurrently, discussion will provide opportunities to target areas where leadership can continue to make positive changes in decreasing the barriers that exist to creating more appropriate school-based therapy for children who stutter.
Recommended Length: Half day
Target Audience: SLPs
Paper Cuts are the Worst:
Writing IEPs for Stuttering Therapy
What do we need to know when writing IEPs for school age children who stutter? Specifically, how can we language and how can we measure the dynamic interaction of variables that impact the therapeutic process? When we expand our views of the goals of school age stuttering therapy, we can decrease our frustration of the “how tos” that go along with effective goal planning. This workshop will discuss IDEA 2004, the language of goal writing, and documentation of progress.
Recommended Length: 2-3 hours
Target Audience: SLPs
Stuttering Therapy in Partnership with Support Groups:
The Best of Both Worlds
Traditional modes of therapy alone do not meet many of the needs of children who stutter and their families. The introduction of a support organization experience into the direct therapy process can greatly benefit the child, parent, and SLP. The school-based SLP is uniquely positioned to utilize this resource to complement an overall treatment strategy.
Recommended Length: 2 hours
Target Audience: SLPs
FOR EDUCATORS:
The Preschool Child Who Stutters: For the Early Childhood Educator
Early Childhood Educators are the best “first line” of successful early intervention of fluency disorders. However, many early childhood professionals often request further information regarding “danger signs” as well as their role in supporting the child who stutters in the classroom. This workshop presents concise referral information along with support strategies that educators can employ in the classroom setting.
Recommended Length: 2 Hours to Half Day
Target Audience: Early Childhood Educators, Support Staff, SLPs
The School Age Child Who Stutters: Information for Professional Educators
For a school age child who stutters, the probability of successful management of stuttering can be enhanced when teachers are educated about and involved in the process of therapy. This in-service provides information regarding stuttering and stuttering therapy. The interactive nature of the presentation seeks to empower educators with successful strategies for supporting the child who stutters in the classroom setting.
Recommended Length: 2-3 Hours
Target Audience: Classroom Educators, Support Staff, Administrators
FOR PARENTS AND SIGNIFICANT OTHERS:
Educate, Advocate, Validate: Keys for loved ones of children who stutter
Parents of children who stutter often feel isolated and confused about what is best for their child. This presentation will inform and support parents with the challenges of understanding what stuttering is, working with professionals, and helping their child through the process of learning to deal with stuttering.
KEYNOTE AND MOTIVATIONAL:
Playing With a Full Deck
Have you ever thought about life as a game of cards? Well, being a speech-language pathologist these days demands us to not only master playing with a full deck, but knowing all of the games by heart and being "card sharks" as well. Making changes in our profession, our job settings, and the way in which we serve the children and adults in our care can be a tall order. We know the outside challenges well, now let's explore the challenges we have placed on ourselves, from the inside, and learn how to get ourselves out of the way when it comes to making positive changes in our professional lives.
Spiral or Spring? You Decide
In our daily work as speech professionals, we face many challenges as well as many rewards. Our work is to decide our own fate; to choose how we view our profession, our careers, and ourselves.
Have you ever taken stock? Have you ever asked yourself the questions that could change your ability to work with enthusiasm in any service delivery venue? Discover a new perspective as you face the challenges of your time constraints and therapy settings!
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