Vowels & Intelligibility – 1 Hour Audio Lecture (CEUs Available)

Description

In this audio seminar and booklet, Pam reveals how children can become significantly more intelligible when the focus of speech-language treatment shifts from the consonants to vowels in apraxia and dysarthria. This one-hour lecture on CD was originally published as Vowel Tracks for Improving Intelligibility. This course is also available ONLINE here.

This course is available for ASHA CEUs and/or Continuing Education Hours and is also be available for group CEUs – see below.

Seminar Details

This material is designed to help make decisions about vowel training in clients with very low intelligibility; SLPs have to figure out for themselves what to do with clients such as these, and that means that we have to make up our own methods. Based on decades of clinical observations and experimentation, Pam reveals how children can become significantly more intelligible when the focus of speech-language treatment shifts from the consonants to vowels in apraxia and dysarthria.

Excellent for both student and professional speech-language pathologists. Can be used with parents and other team members in training seminars.

Seminar Outline

1. About This Material
2. The Problem
3. The Importance of Vowels
4. The Animal in the Window
5. Problems We See In Clients
6. What We Usually Do
7. What We Should Do
8. Experience Co-Articulation
9. Choosing Vowels
10.  Vowel Tracks: The First Level
11. Multi-Sensory Training
12. Second Level
13. Diphthongs
14. Without Diphthongs
15. How Does Speech Sound?
16. Training Diphthongs
17. Diphthong Tracks
18. Third Level
19. Errors on Third Tier Vowels
20. Developing Short Vowel Skill
21. Short Vowel Learning
22. High-Functioning Clients
23. R and L Problems
24. Diphthongs, R and L
25. Pass the Test / Fail Conversation
26. References

Vowels & Intelligibility is:

• 1 One-Hour CD (audio seminar) with 34-Page Handout Booklet
• Also available: Online Seminar (1-hour audio seminar)
• Appropriate for SLPs and some parents
• Available for optional 0.1 ASHA CEUs (see details below)

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Continuing Education Enrollment

All CDs are mailed with continuing education enrollment instructions. After watching the video, please register for your CEUs on our website here.

If you do not wish to receive ASHA CEUs for this course, we are happy to give you (only) a certificate of completion after you watch the video — you will be given instructions on how to opt out of ASHA reporting when you submit your paperwork to us.

Group CEU Options

For those who would like to listen to the CD together, we offer group packages. Group CD packages come with one CD and handout booklet and all CE participants will receive photocopies of the handout to use while following along with the DVD. The cost for each additional group participant is only $25.

Learning Outcomes

Participants will learn to:

1. Describe the role vowels play in intelligibility
2. Explain why the neutral vowel solidifies unintelligibility when teaching consonants
3. Use the vowel quadrilateral to make decisions about vowel training
4. Identify how and why vowels can be organized into three Vowel Tracks
5. Train each vowel and diphthong

ASHA Disclosures

Financial Disclosure: Pam Marshalla (presenter) and Marshalla Speech & Language (publisher) do not have any financial relationships to disclose.

Non-Financial Disclosure: Pam Marshalla (presenter) and Marshalla Speech & Language (publisher) do not have any non-financial relationships to disclose.

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ASHA CE Registry & Fee

To earn ASHA CEUs, subscribers must have paid their annual ASHA CE Registry fee. Individuals must meet at least one of the following conditions to be eligible to earn ASHA CEU:

1. ASHA Member (includes Life member and International affiliates)
2. ASHA Certificate of Clinical Competence (CCC) Holder
3. Licensed by a state or provincial regulatory agency to practice speech-language pathology (SLP) or audiology
4. Credentialed by a state regulatory agency to practice SLP or audiology
5. Credentialed by a national regulatory agency to practice SLP or audiology
6. A Clinical Fellow supervised by someone who holds the ASHA CCC
7. Currently enrolled in a master’s or doctoral program in SLP or audiology

The participant pays ASHA CE Registry fee directly to the ASHA National Office. The annual ASHA CE Registry fee allows registration of an unlimited number of ASHA CEUs for the calendar year. Contact the ASHA CE staff at 800-498-2071 or visit http://www.asha.org/ce/CEUs for CE Registry fee subscription information.