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*** 50th Anniversary ***

MAINE SPEECH LANGUAGE HEARING ASSOCIATION

2014 Conference: November 6 - 7, 2014

The Cross Insurance Center - Bangor 515 Main Street - Bangor, ME 04401 • 207-561-8300

CONFERENCE TOPICS

Thursday, November 6, 2014

Option #1 Michelle Garcia Winner’s: Social Thinking® Presenter: Nancy Clements, MS, CCC-SLP: Social Thinking, Boston Implementing Dynamic Social Thinking Assessments & Core Treatment Strategies for home and school.

Option #2 Mastering Dementia Therapy: The SLP Guide Presenter: Nancy Shadowens, MS, CCC-SLP:

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Thursday Evening Social Hour - 4:30 - 5:30 Featuring Special Guests, Music & Refreshments

Friday, November 7, 2014

 Michelle Garcia Winner’s: Social Thinking®

Implementing Social Thinking® Concepts and Vocabulary into the School and Home Day: A Day to Develop Team Creativity

Presented by: Nancy Clements, MS, CCC-SLP

CEU Information: .125 Total Intermediate /  Professional Level

Registration includes am/pm break time refreshments, lunch & social hour

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TOPIC INFORMATION

~ THURSDAY: OPTION 1 ~

Informal Dynamic Social Thinking Assessment and Core Treatment Strategies for Home and School

Nancy Clements - Course Outline .06 CEU's: This conference is designed to help parents and professionals better understand the inner minds of individuals with social learning challenges. We introduce the Informal Dynamic Social Thinking Assessment, a tool described in Michelle’s book, Thinking About YOU Thinking About ME, 2nd Edition. Video clips of the informal assessment will demonstrate ways in which all of us (diagnosticians, parents, paraprofessionals, treatment clinicians, etc.) can work more effectively with this population. This is a day filled with very practical information! In the afternoon, participants will learn about Social Behavior Mapping, SBM is a visual teaching strategy which demonstrates how doing what is “expected” or “unexpected” in specific social situations impacts how those around us feel about our behaviors and how that, in turn, impacts how they treat us, and ultimately how we feel about ourselves. Rounding out the day, basic concepts and ideas will be presented for running Social Thinking groups as well as specific teaching strategies that help make the abstractions of the social world more concrete! We will delve into how we make friends, distinguishing between 1) “being friendly,” 2) developing a friendship, and 3) having a “bonded friend.” We will discuss how conversational skills are only one component to keeping friends; “hanging out” actually means we share space without necessarily talking! Parents and professionals give high praise for the practical nature of this workshop.

Learning Objectives: Participants will be able to. . .

• • Describe how to assess ‘thinking with your eyes’ and how this is different from identifying what some one is looking at 
• • Be able to describe the core components of the “Double Interview” and explain how it helps assess perspective taking 
• • Describe how to fill out each of the 4 columns on Social Behavior Maps 
• • Be able to describe the Four Steps of Communication as a primary component to assessing and treating social skill deficits 
• • Be able to define at least three different stages of making friends and how to teach students to advance from one stage to the next 
• • Discuss how to teach nonverbal ways of maintaining a friendship when peers “hang out.”

~ THURSDAY: OPTION 2 ~

Mastering Dementia Therapy – The Speech Pathologists Guide

Nancy Shadowens - Course Outline .06 CEU's: Therapy for the patient with dementia requires understanding the various types of dementia, appropriate screens and evaluations specific to dementia, understanding the stages of the disease, how to establish medical necessity, write appropriate goals, and implement effective ways to achieve therapy goals through evidence-based interventions. This presentation covers each of these areas and gives the therapist the knowledge required to proceed with confidence and provide quality therapeutic intervention with successful outcomes for the patient with dementia.

Learning Objectives: Participants will. . .

• • Describe the differences between normal aging vs. dementia
•  • Utilize screening and evaluation tools to identify appropriate dementia therapy candidates • Determine how to ‘stage’ a patient with dementia and understand use of ‘spared capabilities’ to achieve goals
•  • Identify long and short-term goals for four primary deficits: mobility (falls), communication, socialization and behaviors 
• • List examples of evidence-based interventions and strategies for successful outcomes
•  • Utilize a Functional Maintenance Plan at conclusion of therapy

~ FRIDAY SPEAKER ~

Implementing Social Thinking® Concepts and Vocabulary into the School and Home Day

A Day To Develop Team Creativity

Nancy Clements - Course Outline .065 CEU's: A favorite for parents and educators, filled with very practical info that can be infused into home and school. Lessons offered are relevant for all school age students; people working with preschoolers and young adults will also benefit from the information presented. We define many Social Thinking concepts and explain how to apply Social Thinking Vocabulary (STV) across the school and home day. Included are: working as part of a group, the three parts of play, lessons related to abstracting and inferencing information, what it means to share an imagination and more. We discuss how all the concepts and SVT work together to teach students how to communicate. Clinical examples are used to highlight how to teach these abstract concepts to help make the information more concrete.

Participants will experience working as part of a group by creating one or two of their own lesson plans: discussing and brainstorming ways to teach social concepts and vocabulary. Our goal is to help students carry these ideas out of the tx room and into their real lives. Hopefully, participants will leave the course fully prepared to infuse more Social Thinking into their home or school day. Lessons will be taught in the order they are introduced in MIchelle’s curriculum, Think Social! A Social Thinking Curriculum for School Aged Students (2005). This curriculum has been adopted by school districts in the USA, in Canada, Hong Kong, and in other countries around the world.

Learning Objectives: Participants will. . .

• • Be able to describe how teaching Social Thinking and related skills can be done in the classroom during academic and social tasks. 
• Be able to define five different Social Thinking Vocabulary concepts 
• • Facilitate generalization across settings 
• • Create a lesson plan to teach students how to be more aware of nonverbal and verbal communicative information 
• • Describe what is meant by teaching students the concept of the three parts of play

~ SPEAKER INFORMATION ~

NANCY CLEMENTS, MS, CCC-SLP is a speech language pathologist, Executive Director of Social Thinking® Boston, and the director of the east coast Social Thinking Clinical Training Program. She developed an in-depth Social Thinking program, including developmentally based groups, off-site coaching and consultations, and a three- credit graduate course in partnership with Saint Michaels College.

Nancy Clements is a vital part of brining Michelle Garcia Winner’s approach to teaching Social Thinking to the East Coast. For a complete Bio please see www.socialthinking.com

Disclosure: “Financial-Ms. Clements receives speaking fees for speaking and teaching for Social Thinking, Inc. Ms. Clements will receive an honorarium from MSLHA for speaking at this conference. Non-financial – No relevant non-financial relationship exists.”

NANCY SHADOWENS M.S., CCC-SLP has more than 14 years experience working with children and adult communication and swallowing disorders. She has worked in various settings including acute care hospitals, rehab hospitals, long term care facilities and education. She began her career working with children ranging from 3 to 21 years of age providing services appropriate for all levels of care expected within the school setting. She was responsible for creation and development of programs for children with autism. Nancy currently works in a skilled nursing facility where she and her colleague, Peggy Watson M.S., CCC-SLP, have developed a dementia program that has been successful on all levels of expectation. They created forms screening protocol, developed an interdisciplinary team, educated staff on dementia staging, improved reimbursement with no denials and increased productivity. As a result, the facility has reported fewer falling episodes and more engagement with their dementia patients. She is a certified provider of Vital-Stim and is trained in trach and vent therapeutic intervention. She is a member of the ASHA, Texas Speech and Hearing Association and is co-owner of Consultants in Dementia Therapy LLC. www.consultantsindementia.com

Disclosure: “Financial-Ms. Shadowens receives royalties from sales of book this presentation is based on, and honorarium for teaching and speaking at this conference. Non-financial - No relevant non-financial relationship exists.”

HIGHLIGHTS: Door Prizes • Special Guests 50 Year Time-Line of MSHLA History

– COME ADD YOUR NAMETO THE TIME LINE! – MSHLA Trivia & Prizes

~ CONFERENCE SCHEDULE ~

Thursday, November 6

7:30 - 8:00..................................................................................... Registration

8:00 - 12:00 .................................................................................. Morning Presentation

10:00 - 10:30 ............................................................................... Break & Business Meeting for MSLHA Members, Elections *

 12:00 - 1:00 ................................................................................ Lunch provided on-site

1:00 - 4:00.................................................................................... Afternoon Presentation - 2:30 - 2:45 Break

Friday, November 7

7:30 - 8:00..................................................................................... Registration

8:00 - 12:00 .................................................................................. Morning Presentation 10:15 - 10:30.............................................................................................. Break 12:00 - 1:00................................................................................................. Lunch

1:00 - 4:00 ................................................................................... Afternoon Presentation

2:30 - 2:45.................................................................................... Break

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