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Minneapolis | October 23 & 24, 2008

Nancy McKinley Photo

Nancy McKinley Memorial Lecture Series and Conference For Speech and Language Pathologists

2008 Conference Theme
Asperger Syndrome

for Speech-Language Pathologists, Educators,
Parents, Human Services Providers, and others who
work with people with Asperger Syndrome

Asperger Syndrome is being diagnosed in rising numbers. Due to the unique nature of Asperger Syndrome, Speech-Language Pathologists are often the professionals that coordinate programming for these individuals. As SLPs, together we will seek to fully understand this diagnosis and to utilize an inclusive view of communication to provide comprehensive services.

The Nancy McKinley Lecture Series and Conference is in tribute to the late Nancy Lee McKinley, MS, CCC-SLP (1952-2005). Nancy was an accomplished speech-language pathologist who made significant contributions to the field of communication sciences and disorders. In 2002, the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association recognized Nancy’s contributions to the profession by naming her an ASHA Fellow. An internationally recognized expert on adolescent language disorders, she presented workshops and co-authored numerous journal articles and books on the topic. Nancy’s poise and management skills opened the door for her to educate others regarding children with speech and language disorders. To honor Nancy, this lecture series strives to pick things up where she left off.

 

Date/Time/Location

October 23, 2008
6:00 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.

October 24, 2008
8:00 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.

Sheraton Bloomington Hotel / Minneapolis South
7800 Normandale Blvd.
Minneapolis, MN 55439

Objectives

At this essential event, you will gain insight and share current, practical
information on Asperger Syndrome. You will leave with the ability to:

  • Describe Asperger Syndrome as it relates to Pervasive Developmental Disorders and autism.
  • Identify early indicators and the specific characteristics of AS in communication and behavior, and appropriately matched intervention services.
  • Apply formal and informal assessment procedures to identify the communication profile of an individual with AS and to determine specific areas of need.
  • Integrate new strategies to target communication, executive functions, and literacy skills for individuals with AS.
  • Use transition planning to facilitate communication and executive function gains for academic, social, vocational, and recreational growth.
  • Interpret and navigate public policy and special education issues in order to provide appropriate services to students with AS.
  • List the five areas of social competence and targeted intervention
    strategies for each.


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Agenda


Thursday, October 23rd
6 p.m. Registration
7 p.m. Keynote Address (open to the public)
Asperger Syndrome: The Basics and Beyond – Dr. Vicki Lord Larson
8:15 - 9:30 p.m. Opening Reception
(for full conference participants only / cash bar)
Friday, October 24th
8 a.m. Welcome & Overview
Dr. Kris Retherford and Angie Sterling-Orth
UW-Eau Claire Communication Sciences & Disorders
8:45 a.m. Breakout Session One (choose from Topics A, B, C, or D)
10 a.m. Break
10:15 a.m. Breakout Session Two (Topics A, B, C, and D repeated)
11:30 a.m. Networking
12:30 p.m. Lunch and Tribute to Nancy McKinley
Linda Schreiber, L.R. Schreiber & Associates
1:30 p.m. Break
2-3:30 p.m. Closing General Session
Charge to the Profession: Challenges and Opportunities
– Dr. Vicki Lord Larson


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Breakout Sessions

Topic A — Facilitator: Lesa Cramer, CCC-SLP
Asperger Syndrome in the Public Schools
If you are a teacher, please join us in this opportunity to increase your understanding of Asperger Syndrome and learn applicable strategies. You will hear real-life stories from the students’ perspectives and appreciate why they say or behave the way that they do. We will discuss portions of Brenda Smith Myles, “Hidden Curriculum,” as well as strategies for dealing with managing the environment, classroom lectures, homework and review, test-taking, projects and papers, group work, and organization. As a result of this activity, you will be able to:

  • Describe the general characteristics of a person with Asperger Disorder.
  • Demonstrate strategies to use with students with Asperger Disorder to help make the student successful in a classroom environment.

Lesa Cramer, CCC-SLP, is a speech-language pathologist from the Eau Claire, WI, School District, with 10 years expertise in the field of autism and Asperger Syndrome at the high school level. She routinely collaborates with general and special education teachers to offer comprehensive and practical educational and IEP services to these young adults.


Topic B — Facilitator: Ann Dybvik, CCC-SLP
Facilitating Vocational Success in Young Adults with Asperger Syndrome
We will focus on facilitating vocational success through the use of a service delivery model for speech-language intervention. At the end of this session, you will be able to

  • List both positive attributes and challenges that people with Asperger Syndrome bring to the workplace.
  • Identify strategies to help individuals with Asperger Syndrome to overcome the challenges they face in the work place.
  • Describe an innovative, collaborative initiative for facilitating functional social skills in young adults with Asperger Syndrome to encourage success in work, higher education, and social settings.
  • Apply a variety of strategies, adaptations, and interventions important to the success of young adults with Asperger Syndrome in post-secondary settings.

Ann Dybvik, CCC-SLP, has 20 years of experience in a variety of settings, including Birth to Three, public schools, Cooperative Education Service Agencies, and private clinics. She has taught a classroom for upper elementary students with autism and worked with young adults as a speech- language therapist and transition facilitator. Ann obtained her Autism Certificate from Hamline University in 2005.

Topic C — Facilitator: Rebecca Jarzynski, CCC-SLP
Early Intervening Services for Asperger Syndrome
By attending this session, you’ll enhance your knowledge of the early indicators,
red flags, and diagnostic criteria for Asperger Syndrome in preschool and early
school-age children, as well as some treatment and educational strategies to apply. We will also discuss the differences between classic autism and Asperger Syndrome.  As a result of this activity, you will be able to:

  • Describe the diagnostic criteria for Asperger Syndrome and contrast the characteristics of children with classic autism to those with AspergerSyndrome.
  • List the core areas of difficulty faced by young children with Asperger’s syndrome and describe methods for assessing those specific areas of difficulty.
  • Analyze a variety of strategies for helping young children diagnosed with Asperger Syndrome succeed in  their home,  community and school environments.

Rebecca Jarzynski, CCC-SLP, is Senior Speech-Language Pathologist at S.P.O.T.S. House of St. Joseph’s Hospital in Chippewa Falls, WI. She specializes in the assessment and treatment of children with Autism Spectrum Disorders, and serves on the West Central Wisconsin Autism Confirmation
Evaluation Team. She has given community in-service trainings on the early detection and treatment of Autism Spectrum Disorders.

Topic D — Facilitator: Carol Hosmann, CCC-SLP
Support Groups and Navigating Insurance Issues for Individuals with Asperger Syndrome
Those of you who offer hospital-based services to persons with Asperger Syndrome face the special challenges of navigating through the processes of prior authorizations, referrals, and billing. Here is your chance to discuss a treatment model for outpatient hospital settings, and strategies for collaborating with parents and service agencies to start and maintain support groups.As a result of this activity, you will be able to:

  • Identify potential payment sources and options for speech/language social-communication therapy services for individuals with Asperger Syndrome.
  • Demonstrate how to write prior authorizations when attempting to seek insurance funding for social-communication therapy services.
  • Describe a service delivery model for hospital-based social skills training.
  • Apply strategies for forming and maintaining a caregiver support group for individuals with asperger’s syndrome and their families.

Carol Hosmann, CCC-SLP, works at Sacred Heart Hospital in Eau Claire, WI, where she provides outpatient therapy services to children, adolescents, and young adults with AS or related conditions. About eight years ago, she developed a small group program for addressing social understanding and
interaction for individuals with AS. Carol also facilitates a monthly parent support group, ASPIRE.

 

Keynote Speaker

Vicki Lord Larson, PhD, CCC-SLP, is chancellor emerita, University of Wisconsin- Eau Claire. Dr. Larson is a past president of the Wisconsin Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology Association (WSHA) and in 1991, received the Honors of the Association. She served as an ASHA legislative counselor, she is an ASHA Fellow, and from 2001–06, she was the acquisitions manager for Thinking Publications. Dr. Larson received her bachelors, masters, and doctorate from the University of Wisconsin- Madison in communication sciences and disorders. She worked for 2 years as a Wisconsin public school speech-language pathologist and for 30 years in the University of Wisconsin System at Whitewater, Eau Claire, and Oshkosh as a faculty member, Dean of Graduate School and Research, Provost and Vice Chancellor, and Interim Chancellor. In 2005, she received the Wisconsin Women in Higher Education leadership award, and in 2007 she was honored with the Council of State Association Presidents first Nancy McKinley Leadership Award. In addition to leading numerous workshops and presentations, she co-authored four textbooks with the late Nancy McKinley on older students with language disorders, most recently Communication Solutions for Older Students. Dr. Larson co-authored S-MAPS: Rubrics for Curriculum-Based Assessment and Intervention with Elisabeth Wiig and Joyce Olson, and the book Asperger Syndrome: Strategies for Solving the Social Puzzle, with Nancy Kaufman.



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Program Fee per person:

Lecture and Conference: $149 by September 22.
After September 22 the fee is $175. This fee includes instruction, materials, Thursday evening reception, continental breakfast and lunch on Friday.

Thursday evening lecture ONLY: $25 adults / $15 students (no refunds).

Lodging
For guest room reservations, please call the Sheraton Bloomington toll free at 866-837-4278. A limited number of rooms have been reserved for this conference at the reduced rate of $109 plus tax. Please reserve your room by 5:00 p.m. October 2nd.

Cancellations / Refunds:
To receive a refund, minus a $35 registration fee, you must cancel no later than 10 business days prior to the start of the program. For cancellations received
after this time, you are responsible for the full program fee. Substitutes are welcome and may register in your absence. Just call the Continuing Education
office (715-836-3636/toll-free 866-893-2423) and
we’ll take care of everything.

Continuing Ed Units

UW-Eau Claire will award .5 CEUs (5 Continuing Education Hours) for
participation in the lecture and conference. The University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire has been approved by the Continuing Education Board (CEB) of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association to offer continuing education activities for speech-language pathologists, audiologists, and speech, language, and hearing scientists.

Applications for exhibits and sponsorships are available.  Contact Julie Aminpour at 715-836-4021/ aminpojb@uwec.edu 

 

Sponsors

Major Sponsor: McKinley Companies Inc., Eau Claire, WI
Secondary Sponsor: Attainment Company Inc., Verona, WI
Supporting Sponsors: Pearson Education, Eagan, MN
HEALTH EDucation Network, LLC, Eau Claire, WI
Site Sponsors: PRO-ED, Inc, Austin, TX
Advance for Speech-Language Pathologists,
King of Prussia, PA
 
Showcase your product or service for SLPs.
Contact Julie at 715.836.3636 to exhibit at this conference.


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