Ongoing Staff Development Options
The following is a list of short-duration, ongoing professional development options for school districts, hospitals and clinics.
Other topics are available but may not be listed. Staff Development topics can be customized upon request. Contact Nina directly to discuss options.
NOTE: This is not a list of full-day continuing education opportunities. For an overview of traditional professional development seminars, please click here.- School Age Stuttering Therapy: Where do we start?
Speech pathologists are often wondering how to begin therapy with new students. This presentation outlines the foundations of therapy that are important for long-term success.
- Assessing and Working with Attitudes and Emotions of Stuttering
Another essential aspect of assessment is discussed in the first part of this seminar: assessing beliefs and feelings. In the second half of the seminar, practical concepts for how to address these issues in therapy are presented.
- What's in Your Toolbox?
Education, demonstration of use, and role-plays of fluency shaping and stuttering modification techniques. General communication skills will also be addressed as a part of overall communication management.
- Activities for Therapy of School Age Children who Stutter
Clinicians bring their favorite speech therapy material/activity. Lead facilitator and all participants will role-play in how to utilize the material/activity for stuttering therapy. A flexible framework for therapy progression will be developed in order to create materials and activities designed to address the ever-changing communication needs of children who stutter.
- Indirect Preschool Stuttering Therapy
Parent education and training of environmental modifications are highlighted in this workshop. Clinicians will role-play and demonstrate techniques while utilizing a play-based therapy approach.
- More Direct Preschool Stuttering Therapy
Discussion of therapy goals and activities for students who are moving from indirect to more direct therapeutic approaches are discussed in this workshop. Transitional issues are addressed.
- Talking Points: Collaborating with parents and teachers
Parents and teachers need to understand stuttering in order to be effective support systems for children who stutter. Following an outline of information (FAQ's), therapists will split into teams to role-play parent and teacher consultation session.
- School Age Therapy Plateaus: Where do we go from here?
Each clinician will bring a challenging “student case” Discussions regarding “What is the next level?” will be facilitated. Problem solving strategies and formats will be utilized.
- Stuttering: Counseling Parents and Children
This workshop presents practical aspects of counseling in therapy of children who stutter and their families. Resources will be outlined and discussed as a part of ongoing learning.
- Desensitization, Hierarchies and Effect Circles: Frameworks in therapy
Sample clinical cases will be presented and participants will create hierarchies and effect circles to clarify procedures for guiding children who stutter in desensitization as well as increased levels of understanding of therapeutic concepts.
- Case Studies: What's on your mind? Clinicians are invited to present challenging student cases. Discussions regarding “What is the next level?” will be facilitated. Problem solving strategies and formats will be utilized.
- Facilitating Carryover in Therapy
Facilitator will identify creative concepts used to enhance carryover of skills learned in therapy of school age children who stutter. Clinicians will develop a plan for a sample “child” from their caseload.
- Hot Topics in Stuttering: Dealing with bullying and teasing
Therapy activities to problem solve bullying and teasing regarding stuttering will be discussed. Clinicians will outline concepts presented for use with children on their workloads.
- Hot Topics in Stuttering: Issues for students in transitional years
This workshop will provide a discussion of therapy goals and activities for students who are moving from pre-teen to teen and then teen to young adult years.