Learning Outcomes

• Identify assessment tools and methods for AAC users.
• Describe three AAC system types.
• Apply specialized strategies for AAC intervention.
• Demonstrate knowledge of AAC resources.

Disclosures:

Financial Disclosure: Presenter for The Pediatric Source and receives a fee for content creation and royalty payments.

Nonfinancial- none to disclose.

Learning Outcomes

• Identify 3 objective signs and symptoms of torticollis.
• Identify 3 healthcare professionals that can aid in treating torticollis.
• Identify 3 reliable sources to find information regarding torticollis.

Disclosures: 

Financial Disclosure: Presenter for The Pediatric Source and receives a fee for content creation and royalty payments.

Nonfinancial- none to disclose.

Learning Outcomes

• Define visual perception, visual spatial, and visual motor.
• Identify a few different assessments to target visual impairments.
• Identify how these impairments affect daily life for individuals.
• Demonstrate knowledge on how SLPs, OTs and other professionals can work together to improve treatment plans and overall plan of care.

Disclosures: 

Financial Disclosure: Presenter for The Pediatric Source and receives a fee for content creation and royalty payments.

Nonfinancial- none to disclose.

Learning Outcomes

• Identify defining characteristics of Childhood Apraxia of Speech (CAS).
• Apply appropriate assessment tools and methods for evaluating a child with suspected CAS.
• Use evidence-based treatment techniques when working with a child with CAS.
• Develop a treatment plan for a child with CAS.

Disclosures: 

Financial Disclosure: Presenter for The Pediatric Source and receives a fee for content creation and royalty payments.

Nonfinancial- none to disclose.

Learning Outcomes

• Identify at least 2 cues to indicate infant is ready to attempt oral feeding.
• Identify the key points to ensure infant alignment to the breast for feeding.
• Describe the importance of paced bottle feeding, milk flow and slow flow nipples.
• Describe the importance of tongue movement for milk transfer.
• Verbalize the importance of education and support for NICU parents to be prepared for transition to home.

Disclosures: 

Financial Disclosure: Presenter for The Pediatric Source and receives a fee for content creation and royalty payments.

Nonfinancial- none to disclose.

Learning Outcomes

• Recap sensory integration and sensory processing theoretical foundations
• Define sensory processing disorder (SPD) and implications for pediatric development
• Establish differences between sensory processing disorders and other causes for dysfunction
• Review and apply relevant assessments to identify sensory processing disorders

Disclosure: Presenter for The Pediatric Source and receives a fee for content creation and royalty payments.

Nonfinancial- none to disclose.

Learning Outcomes

• Identify what oral motor development is and how it relates to a pediatric SLP’s caseload.
• Define disorders associated with oral-motor dysfunction, impaired oral-motor skills, and orofacial myofunctional disorders.
• Identify the importance of case history and identify 1 screener a pediatric SLP may add to their assessment battery.
• Identify the Explore Speech “START” approach to oral motor:
• S: Scope
• T: Training
• A: Assessment & Advocacy
• R: Referrals
• T: Treatment & Team

Financial Disclosure: Presenter for The Pediatric Source and receives a fee for content creation and royalty payments.

Owner of Explore Speech Co. / Owner of Explore Speech Instagram / Website

Teachers Pay Teachers Products @ Explore Speech

Nonfinancial- Social Media Director, Volunteer for the Oral Motor Institute.

Learning Outcomes

• Describe the significance of Early Childhood Intervention (ECI) for children ages birth-three.
• Identify the five key principles in providing early intervention services in natural settings.
• List the referral and intake steps that need to be completed for a child to enroll in an ECI program.
• Identify three types of services that are offered to children in the ECI program.
• List the 5 steps of the ECI parent coaching model.

Financial Disclosure: Presenter for The Pediatric Source and receives a fee for content creation and royalty payments. owner of Jabber Talk Speech and Consulting, PLLC.

Nonfinancial — 2024 Convention Topic Chair- Language in Infants through Preschoolers: American Speech-Language Hearing Association. Receives no compensation as member of the topic chair committee.

Learning Outcomes

• Describe typical infant feeding development
• Identify potential risk factors and medical components associated with infant feeding and swallowing difficulties.
• Describe the fundamental components of evaluating infants who experience challenges with feeding and swallowing.
• Demonstrate how we employ a whole infant approach when conducting feeding assessments for infants in the NICU.

Financial Disclosure: 

Financial Disclosure: Presenter for The Pediatric Source and receives a fee for content creation and royalty payments.

Owner of a pediatric feeding private practice and is employed by a Rehabilitation Hospital.

Nonfinancial: No relevant relationships to disclose.

Learning Outcomes

• Define Pediatric orthopedic Impairments.
• Identify some common impairments.
• Identify OT/SLP role in assessment, treatment planning and interventions.
• Identify how OTs and SLPs can collaborate for improved plan of care.
• Develop foundational knowledge of assistive devices for individuals with orthopedic impairments.
• Identify challenges within each profession.

Disclosures: 

Financial Disclosure: Presenter for The Pediatric Source and receives a fee for content creation and royalty payments.

Nonfinancial- none to disclose.