9:00-11:30 am
Breaking Down Barriers
Do you know what barriers your clients with speech or hearing impairments face in the community? Do you know how they are coping and what needs to change? If not, you need to hear Deborah Maund, an SLP and Regional Coordinator for the Communication Access Now Project (CAN), a national campaign that promotes the rights to access good and services for people who have speech and language disabilities. She witnesses how our clients struggle with being able to get the same quality and range of services we so easily enjoy.
For this presentation, Deborah will provide an overview of current legislation, special CAN projects, and video case examples of challenges she has encountered across Atlantic Canada. Two individuals with communication disabilities will also share their unique insights regarding the barriers they face. Members will be invited to discuss how things are working in their communities and what strategies might be implemented to break down some of these barriers.
11:30-12:00
Lunch (provided. Gluten Free options available)
12:00-2:30
Come Discover Coaching with CALM Power™- the CALM Coaching Model ™
Shelley Cox, an accredited Coach through the International Coach Federation is passionate about helping you and your clients build amindset of CALM Power™. The core of the model is theCALM Coaching Conversation™where you will learn to identify client beliefs, overcome ambivalence, engage in challenging questions, employ positive psychology, and use emotional intelligence techniques. Distorted beliefs, perceptions and fears, often not apparent to our conscious minds, are often uncovered quickly during the coaching session! Providing a safe, compassionate space for your clients and working at a deeper, more meaningful level, will create shared insights that can be easily translated to change behavior (competencies). The impact/result of these new behavioral changes(competencies) often increase(s) motivation to continue them -it’s quite pivotal!
2:45 pm-4:15 pm
AGM
AGM will include a Round Table Discussion Around Legislation – Now is the perfect opportunity to ask questions and learn more about the proposed College.