• This course offered for .3 MSHA CEUs (Intermediate Level, Professional Area)

Communication Barriers and Solutions for People with Brain Injuries

Wednesday February 28, 2018

Registration 5:00 pm with Conference from 5:30-8:30

Pizza and drinks provided

Presenter: Sarah Davis, CBIS

Sarah Davis began her career teaching music in the public schools to students with a wide range of abilities and disabilities. After more than a decade in the classroom finding unique ways to include all learners, Sarah devoted the next 14 years to supporting individuals with a wide range of disabilities in competitive employment through MO Department of Vocational Rehabilitation programs. Sarah piloted a program in 2010 with MO Department of Vocational Rehabilitation to provide a new model of employment services for individuals with brain injury. Since 2010, Sarah has devoted her career to the unique needs of individuals with brain injury in the workforce. Sarah joined Trisha Nance in 2016 to develop programming for The Brain Injury Foundation of Saint Louis. Sarah graduated from Fontbonne University with her Bachelor’s in Music Education and has completed graduate work in Education at Webster University. Sarah is a Certified Brain Injury Specialist in good standing with ACBIS.

Presenter: Patricia Nance, M.S. CCC-SLP

Trisha Nance is a Speech Language Pathologist who received her bachelor’s degree from St. Louis University in 1996. Trisha started her career as a speech assistant at Barnes Jewish Hospital for 2 years prior to her acceptance into the graduate program at Washington State University and graduated in 1999. She continued her career within the BJC system. After a short stent in the St. Louis Public school she landed into the Mercy family where she has been for the last 14 years. She is currently the supervisor of outpatient therapy services for Mercy hospital St. Louis and serves as the Executive Director of the Brain Injury Foundation.

Presenter: Dr. Hillel Goldstein, PsyD, LPC

Dr. Goldstein has been in private practice since spring 2016 with West County Psychological Associates in Creve Coeur, primarily treating people with brain injuries. Dr. Goldstein earned his Doctor of Psychology in clinical psychology from Adler University, Chicago; Master of Science in experimental psychopathology from the University of Wisconsin, Madison; and Master of Arts in social psychology from Princeton University. Dr. Goldstein’s biopsychosocial training fuels his dedication to multidisciplinary clinical collaboration. He intends to expand his practice to include work with patients in St. Louis area rehabilitation programs.

Before relocating to St. Louis, Dr. Goldstein served as primary therapist at Appalachian Regional Healthcare’s Psychiatric Center in Kentucky, treating inpatient adults with co-occurring psychiatric illnesses and substance-use disorders, typically comorbid with chronic medical conditions. He also worked with court-referred male teens within a multidisciplinary team of health and law-enforcement professionals at Johns Hopkins Hospital. He is a Licensed Professional Counselor in Missouri.

Disclosures

Relevant Financial Relationships: Sarah Davis, Patricia Nance, and Dr. Hillel Goldstein have no relevant financial relationships to disclose. They will be receiving an honorarium from Midwestern Adult Communication Disorders Group for their presentation.

Relevant Non-Financial Relationships: Patricia Nance will be presenting information from her work at the Brain Injury Foundation, where she is also on the board.

Overview

Sarah Davis, Certified Brain Injury Specialist and music educator, and Patricia Nance, M.S. CCC-SLP, executive director of the Brain Injury Foundation in St. Louis, will be presenting for the duration of the conference. They will be joined by Dr. Hillel Goldstein, PsyD, LPC, psychologist with the West County Psychological Associates primarily treating people with brain injuries. Throughout the course of the evening, Davis, Nance, and Goldstein will discuss return to work post brain injury regarding communication barriers, strategies to overcome barriers, successful strategies to advocate for workers with brain injury, and Missouri state services available to people with brain injury. They will also discuss psychological effects of brain injury, the impact of communication difficulties on patient’s ability to receive psychological help, and the importance of psychological intervention in a multidisciplinary approach. This information will be relevant to the practice of Speech-Language Pathologists in a variety of settings, as well as OT, PT, and other health care professionals.

  • This course is being offered for 3 MSHA Clock hours.*PT’s, OT’s, and other health care professionals attending will receive a certificate of attendance.

Learner Objectives

Objective 1: Participants will identify the services available to individuals with brain injury through MO State programs. Participants will identify 3-5 specific gaps or limitations in state funded programs for individuals with brain injury.

Objective 2: Participants will identify the top communication barriers individuals with brain injury experience that interfere with successful employment and independent living.

Objective 3: Participants will learn strategies currently in use by individuals with brain injury to overcome communication barriers in the workplace.

Objective 4: Participants will identify 3-5 strategies to advocate for workers with brain injury for communication accommodations.

Objective 5: Participants will recognize the need of individuals with brain injury to participate in psychotherapy and the barriers that prevent clinicians from attempting psychotherapy with patients who have serious communication barriers.

Objective 6: Participants will learn of a unique, multidisciplinary approach to providing psychotherapy for individuals with brain injury related communication barriers.

*** MOBAP has wonderful conference rooms, but they can be chilly. Please remember to bring a sweater***

Directions:
Missouri Baptist Hospital Auditorium 3. From 270: East on I-64/40 Exit Ballas Road Left/South on Ballas, immediate right on Jess G. Harmon; follow Mo Bap signs to Main Entrance and then look for MACDG signs. / Registration and Fees:
Pre-register online: $45 Deadline is 2/21/18
At door: $55 / Make checks payable to: MACDG
*Mail to: Ellen AdkinsPostmark by 2/21/18
1218 Lin Manor DriveSt. Louis,
MO 63122