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TIME |
TOPIC |
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7:00-8:30 am |
Registration and light continental breakfast |
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MORNING
Session:
8:15 - 11:30 AM
3 CEU’s
(Inc.15 min break) |
Selective Mutism is more than not speaking!
- Let’s Talk; What Exactly is Selective Mutism?
- What Causes SM?
- Pressure vs. Enabling; Seesaw Phenomenon
- Timidity Umbrella: Implications to Selective Mutism
- Speech Phobia & SM: The Loose Noodle Syndrome!
- Social Communication Bridge and Stages of SM
- Evaluation/Assessment of the child/teen with Selective Mutism
- Social Communication Anxiety Inventory (SCAI) to assess!
- YOU Know the Child has SM, WHY Evaluate?
- Golden Rules for Evaluating
- Speech & Language and the Role of the SLP in Evaluation!
- Parents and siblings and their Roles in the Evaluation
-Treatment of Selective Mutism; Lowering Anxiety is not ENOUGH!
-Treatment via Social Communication Anxiety Therapy (SCAT))
- Critical First Steps in Treatment
- HOW Presentation & Treatment Changes thru the Ages
- Key Aspects NOT to be Ignored. I.e. Sensory Processing!
- Treatment Strategies Based on Social Communication Level
- Medication and Alternative Therapies |
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11:35-12:40 pm |
MEET/GREET luncheon! (Separate sign up) or
Lunch on your own! |
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AFTERNOON
Session:
12:45 -4:00 pm
3 CEU’s
(Inc.15 min break) |
Selective Mutism Within the School Setting
- Approach to the SILENT Child/Teen within School
-The Meeting: Team Approach to the Silent Child/Teen
- Role of Both the School/Outside Professional
- Purpose of School Accommodations/Interventions
- When to consider an evaluation for an IEP or 504 plan?
- Which Plan is best? An IEP? 504? Or NO Plan?
- IEP Testing: HOW to Assess to assure accurate results
-HOW Plans Differ across the ages! Preschool-College
- Guidelines to Planning/Meeting the Child’s Needs
- Determining Child’s Needs
- Designing Specific Accommodations/Interventions
- Speech and Language; Importance of Social Pragmatics
- Social Skills vs. Social Comfort; Important to Differentiate!
- Challenges within the School Setting
- Setting Realistic Goals (it is not about ‘just speaking!)
- Case Study reviews/ Question/Answer Session |
| LEARNING OBJECTIVES: |
By the end of this conference, attendees should be able to:
(1) Understand SM from social communication anxiety standpoint
(2) Explain the evaluation and assessment process of SM
(3) Explain and implement various treatment strategies that are
specific to the child’s social communication level
(4) Develop and implement school accommodations/interventions. |
*The program is preliminary, and topics and/or speakers may change.
