Atlantic Host Hotel, Bathurst, NB

​​​​​​​ 2017 NBASLPA Conference AGM

​​​​​​​Atlantic Host Hotel, Bathurst, NB

​​​​​​​September 15 and 16, 2017

Friday, September 15, 2017

Audiology Sessions

8:30- 4:30Dr. Sylvie Hébert: Tinnitus and Hyperacusis: Recent Theoretical and Clinical Developments

(session in english)

10:00-10:30Break and Exhibit Room

12:00-1:00Lunch and Exhibit Room

14:30-15:00Break and Exhibit Room

6:00AGM & Awards Ceremony (dinner buffet for NBASLPA members)

S-LP and Education Sessions

8:30- 4:00Dr. Pascal Lefebvre : L’évaluation des troubles des sons de la parole auprès des enfants d’âge préscolaire francophones (session in French)

8:30- 12:00Dr. Gene Ouellette: Speech, Language, and Emergent Literacy: The Roles of Phonology and

Semantics on the Pathway to Literacy (session in English)

10:00-10:30Break and Exhibit Room

12:00-1:00Lunch and Exhibit Room

1:00 - 4:00Cindy Millar: AAC Strategies for Children with Visual Impairments and Multiple Disabilities

(session in English)

14:30-15:00Break and Exhibit Room

6:00AGM& Awards Ceremony (dinner buffet for NBASLPA members)

Saturday, September 16, 2017

Audiology Sessions

8:00-8:30Breakfast for NBASLPA members(for those who checked it off on the registration form)

8:30-9:30Janace Daley: Family-Centered Care (session in English)

9:30-10:00Peter Stemalcovich: Maximizing Audibility for Children with Hearing Loss inToday’s Modern

Classroom; Treatment Planning for WorkingAdults with Hearing Loss (Part 1) (session in

English)

10:00-10:30Break and Exhibit Room

10:30-12:00Peter Stemalcovich: Treatment Planning for Working Adults with Hearing Loss (Part 2)

12:00-1:00Lunch and Exhibit Room

S-LP and EducationSessions

8:00-8:30Breakfast (for those who checked it off on the registration form)

8:30- 4:30Dr. Martha Coen-Cummings: Language Processing Therapeutic Goals and Interventions to Improve Active Listening (session in English)

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Dr. RosaleeShenker: Special Populations: Treating Stuttering in Children with Other

Speech and Language Difficulties (session in English)

10:00-10:30Break and Exhibit Room

12:00-1:00Lunch and Exhibit Room

14:30-15:00Break and Exhibit Room

Biography of Presenters and Session Descriptions

Pascal Lefebvre, Ph.D.

Pascal Lefebvre est professeur agrégé auxProgrammes d’orthophonie de l’Université Laurentienne à Sudbury, ainsi que professeur auxiliaire à l’École des Sciences de la réadaptation à l’Université d’Ottawa. Il est aussi orthophoniste membre de l’Ordre des orthophonistes et audiologistes de l’Ontario et du Québec. Professeur Lefebvre a effectué ses études doctorales au Centre de recherche de Ste-Justine comme stagiaire stratégique des Instituts de recherche en santé du Canada dansle Programme Canadien des cliniciens-chercheurs en santé de l’enfant. Il a débuté sa carrière universitaire à l'Université d'Ottawa en 2007. Il mène actuellement des travaux de recherche sur le langage et la

littératie chez les enfants, ainsi que sur la prévention des difficultés de lecture et d’écriture. Professeur Lefebvre est aussi impliqué dans l’implantation de pratiques préventives dans des écoles primaires et des milieux de garde éducatifs. Ses nouveaux projets de recherche s’intéressent à l’interaction entre les troubles des sons de la parole et l’apprentissage de l’écrit.

Session description (session in French)

Evaluation of Speech Sound Disorders in Francophone Preschool Children

The goal of this presentation is to provide an update of the evaluation of preschool age children presenting with speech sound disorders in French. The availability of valid evaluation tools, recent diagnostic criteria, as well as the impact on literacy will be presented and discussed.

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Martha Coen-Cummings, PH.D. CCC-S

Martha Coen-Cummings has been employed in the Speech Pathology Deptat

Cincinnati Children’s Hospital for over 25 years. She is currently the Coordinator

of the Outpatient Mason Speech Pathology Department, was nominated in 2010

for the hospital’s Woman of the Year Award, and in 2014 was nominated for the

Cincinnati Enquirer’s Woman of the Year Award. Also in 2010, she was chosen as

one of Cincinnati Children’s Hospital’s Jefferson Awards winners for her active

volunteerism. She received the department’s Director’s Award for Excellence in

December 1999, the Ohio Speech and Hearing Association’s “Elwood Chaney

Outstanding Clinician Award in 2007, was named Fellow of the Association in

2008, and Honors of the Association in 2012. She has achieved 10 Awards for

Continuing Education through the American Speech-Language-Hearing

Association, and in 2012 completed ASHA’s Leadership in Healthcare Program.

She graduated from Miami University of Ohio with a Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in 1984, and 1985 respectively. She earned her Ph.D. at the University of Cincinnati, in 1994 with minors in Management and Statistics. Her dissertation was entitled “Voice quality changes in children who underwent a laryngotracheoplasty.” Her main clinical specialty areas of voice disorders and treatment of auditory processing disorders have led to numerous presentations at the local, state, national, and international levels.

Over the past 30 years, Martha has served in numerous elected positions and committees in the local and state professional associations that she has joined. She held President positions in the following professional associations: Southwest Speech and Hearing Association, the Northern KY Speech and Hearing Association, and the Ohio Speech Language Hearing Association (OSLHA) which is comprised of over 2,700 members! She is proud to be the United States founder and state-wide Chairperson for OSLHA’s Sponsored Silence program which is designed to increase public awareness about the:

• importance of communication;

• isolation that can occur when communication is disrupted or completely lost; and

• role of the speech and hearing professional.

SessionDescription

Language Processing Therapeutic Goals and Interventions to Improve Active Listening

Pediatric Processing Disorders: Interdisciplinary Roles and Assessment

Processing Disorders can be differentially diagnosed between the disciplines of Audiology, Speech-Language Pathology, Occupational Therapy, Ophthalmology and Neuro-Psychology, in order to rule out or treat the child's deficit areas. This course will discuss each discipline's role and assessment procedure for a related processing disorder in an effort to ensure each remain in their own scope of practice

Learning Outcomes

• After this course, participants will be able to define the evaluating and treatment roles of the SLP, OT, audiologist, ophthalmologist, and pediatric neuropsychologist for a child diagnosed with a processing disorder.
• After this course, participants will be able to describe the pediatric referral criteria for each discipline's area relating to a processing disorder.
• After this course, participants will be able to describe the behavioral characteristics (in the pediatric population) of the following processing disorders: auditory, visual, sensory, behavioral regulation/attention and language.

Language Processing Therapy for Children Diagnosed with a (Central) Auditory Processing Disorder

This course will discuss the current research on evidence-based treatment strategies for children diagnosed with a (central) auditory processing disorder, and how the overall intervention goal will vary, depending on whether a speech-language pathologist or an audiologist is delivering the treatment. The main focus will be the demonstration (via videos) of clinical application of language processing management goals that improve active listening skills. Videos will be shown to demonstrate the clinical application of language processing management goals that target listening in background noise, auditory memory, phonological awareness, auditory skills as they relate to metalinguistic cues, prosody training, receptive language issues pertinent to this area, and binaural integration tasks.

Learning Outcomes

• After this course, participants will be able to describe how evidence-based research can be applied to interventions for language processing to increase a child's active listening skills.
• After this course, participants will be able to identify a child's problem area(s) and develop direct intervention goals that correspond to improving the deficit skills.
• After this course, participants will be able to describe therapeutic tasks that address the appropriate, deficit-specific treatment goals.
• After this course, participants will be able to describe home program suggestions (using games and apps) that facilitate the skills being addressed in treatment.

Sylvie Hebert,Ph.D.

Sylvie Hébert est professeure titulaire en audiologie à l’École d’orthophonie et

d’audiologie de l’Université de Montréal. Elle est également chercheure au

BRAMS (Laboratoire international de recherche sur le Cerveau, la musique, et le

son) et au CRBLM (Center of Research on Brain, Language, and Music). Son

laboratoire de recherche a une expertise reconnue internationalement dans

l’étude des acouphènes. Dr. Hébert a publié des études pionnières sur les co-

morbidités des acouphènes, en particulier sur le stress et les acouphènes. Plus

récemment elle a développé des outils pour étudier lescaractéristiques

psychoacoustiques de l’acouphène et de l’hyperacousie afin d’améliorer le

diagnostic et le suivi des patients dans les essais cliniques.

Session Description (session in English)

Tinnitus and Hyperacusis: Recent Theoretical and Clinical Developments

Over the past two decades, tinnitus has generated a lot of scientific interest. This presentation will address recent advancements on this subject, including scientific data and theoretical models. It will also provide an overview of the diverse clinical interventions, both proven and unsubstantiated, that are designed to help individuals suffering from tinnitus.

A growing concern in the field of audiology is the increasing number of individuals who present with a principal complaint of sound intolerance, including the issues of hyperacusis, phonophobia, and misophonia. This presentation will examine these disorders, their clinical presentation, as well as the mechanisms of the disorders and possible therapeutic options.

Rosalee C. Shenker, Ph.D., CCC-SLP

Rosalee C. Shenker is Founder of the Montreal Fluency Centre. She has specialized in fluency disorders for over 40 years, choosing in the past 20 years to focus on the treatment of children. As Adjunct Professor at McGill University, School of Communication Sciences and Disorders, she taught the graduate course in Stuttering for many years. As a founding member of the Lidcombe Program Training Consortium she coordinates clinical training in North America and has provided presentations, workshops and mentoring to over 3000 clinicians, in Canada, the United States, and Europe. Rosalee has published in peer-reviewed journals and contributed chapters on Stuttering to various textbooks. Her most recent work emphasizes the treatment of bilingual children who stutter and treatment of stuttering in school-age children.

Session Description (session in English)

Treatment of Stuttering in Children with Other Speech and Language Concerns

This workshop will focus on the treatment of stuttering in children with other speech and language concerns. The first part of the workshop will summarize assessment procedures that may identify speech and language factors and/or atypical stuttering patterns in children. Guidelines for making a differential diagnosis and treatment plan will be described. The second part of the workshop will focus on the treatment of complex cases including children with stuttering and associated language, speech, and atypical dysfluency patterns. Treatment goals for complex cases where stuttering is part of a profile that includes autistic spectrum disorder, attention deficit, and precocious language learners will be presented. The objective is to provide some guidelines for the assessment and treatment of children presenting with these profiles.
Peter Stelmacovich, B.Sc.(CD), M.Cl.Sc., Reg. CASLPO

Peter Stelmacovich is a trained audiologist with over 25 years of experience.

For the past 12 years he has held progressive leadership positions at

Phonak Canada, first as the FM Product Manager and more recently as the

Director of Pediatric Sales for Canada. This current position involves

managing the latest hearing aid technologies for children with hearing loss,

as well as wireless technologies used in educational facilities. In addition,

Peter also manages the product lines used by adult patients with severe to

profound deafness.

As a cochlear implant recipient and hearing aid wearer himself, Peter blends

hisaudiological training, sales experience, and personal patient experiences in his presentations. Peter has been consistently recruited to speak at both Canadian and International conferences to share this unique perspective.

SessionDescription (session in English)

1.Maximizing Audibility for Children with Hearing Loss in Todays Modern Classroom

Today’s modern classroom places increasing demands on listening and hearing. In the past, teachers did the majority of the talking and there was limited use of multimedia. Today, students are encouraged to engage in classroom discussions, listen to various forms of multimedia and work in groups. These newer dynamic classrooms must ensure that all students are engaged, including those with hearing challenges. This talk shall discuss the strategies and equipment needed to enhance access for students with hearing loss.

2.Treatment Planning for Working Adults with Hearing Loss

Our society has shifted from a manufacturing based economy to a knowledge based economy. With that comes an increased in reliance on meetings and communication. Studies show that managers in large companies can spend up to 75% of the day in meetings. This reliance on verbal communication presents unique challenges to working adults with hearing loss. This talk will focus on identifying the needs of working adults with hearing loss, and developing a treatment plan of solutions.

Janace Daley, B.A., M.Sc., Audiologist , PhonakRegional Sale Manager

Janace Daley received her Audiology degree from Dalhousie University. She has over 20 years’ experience in Audiology Support and Training with Phonak Canada and has worked in the private sector part-time as a dispensing Audiologist.

Janace recently took on a new role with Phonak Canada in November, 2016 as Regional Sales Manager for Atlantic Canada.

Janace is dedicated to improve the lives of individuals with hearing loss, and to educate the public on hearing health and awareness.

Janace lives in Nova Scotia with her husband and three children (2 dogs and 1 cat )

Session Description (session in English)

Family-Centered Care

The presentation will focus on what Family-centered Care (FCC) means within a hearing healthcare environment. We will review evidence that is emerging within Audiology as to the benefit of including significant others as active participants in the patient’s hearing healthcare journey. We will also review how an FCC approach to hearing loss management can result in significant benefits to patients, clinicians and the practice as a whole. Some clinical tools to help you get started incorporating FCC within your practice will be presented.

Dr. Gene Ouellette, PhD

Gene Ouellette is an Associate Professor and current Head of the Psychology Department at Mount Allison University, where he is also the Director of the Literacy Language Research Lab and Associate Editor of the Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. Prior to completing his PhD in Psychology, Dr. Ouellette was trained as Speech Language Pathologist (MSc) at McGill University and worked clinically within the public school system in Eastern Ontario. Research from the Literacy Language Research Lab deals with connections between oral and written language with a specific focus on the role of internal representations in literacy skill acquisition; recent research projects have focused on invented spelling as a gateway into literacy acquisition, the connection between spelling accuracy and reading speed, predictors of academic success in elementary school, word reading and sight word acquisition, and the role of vocabulary in reading proficiency. Funding for these projects has come from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (and previously from the Canadian Council on Learning and Canadian Language and Literacy Research Network).

Session Description (session in English)

Speech, Language, and Emergent Literacy: The roles of Phonology and Semantics on the Pathway to Literacy

In this presentation, research will be summarized that deals with the connections between speech-language development and emergent literacy. Emergent literacy involves the skills, knowledge, and attitudes that are developmental precursors to conventional forms of reading and writing, and encompasses key areas of phonological and semantic development. Topics covered will include the interplay of articulation, speech perception, and phoneme awareness; the importance of vocabulary development and organization for phonological awareness and early word reading; and how phonological awareness, spelling, and early reading can be facilitated through child-centered early literacy activities.

Cindy Millar MSc. S-LP

Cindy is a graduate of Dalhousie University and has been a practicing speech-language pathologist (S-LP) for 35 years. As the S-LP at Atlantic Provinces Special Education Authority (APSEA) for the past 21 years, she has specialized in working with students (birth-21) who are blind and visually impaired, deaf and hard of hearing. Cindy assumed the APSEA AAC Consultant position in 2010 and currently works with students who have sensory loss with additional learning challenges. She provides consultation to educational teams in the four Atlantic Provinces, as well as serving on the assessment and short term program teams at the APSEA centre in Halifax. Cindy currently serves as the Atlantic Provinces member on the national council for ISAAC-Canada. In October, she was the recipient of the 2016 Recognition Award from Speech Pathology and Audiology Association (SPAA), the Nova Scotia association for school speech-language pathologists.

Session Description (session in English):

AAC Strategies for Children with Visual Impairments and Multiple Disabilities

Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) strategies often have a strong foundation in vision-based systems and tools that many children with a visual impairment cannot easily access. This presentation will focus on considerations and adaptations that the Speech-Language Pathologist can consider as part of the design and implementation of AAC for this population. Topics will include specific strategies that are effective for children with visual behaviours associated with Cortical Visual Impairment (CVI) and tactile strategies for children who are blind or low vision with multiple challenges. Resources will be shared to help the S-LP implement some of the ideas within his or her own practice.