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    Rewiring Speech: Transformative Neuro-functional Treatment for Pediatric Apraxia

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    • Physical Therapist
    • Certified Occupational Therapy Asst
    • Occupational Therapist
    • Physical Therapy Asst
    • Speech Language Pathologist
    • Speech Language Pathology Asst
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Course Description

Addressing childhood speech apraxia is a full body approach! This introductory course for SLPs, OTs, and PTs will give clinicians a deep dive into the developmental sequence of motor control and how deviations connect to origins of speech apraxia and other oral-motor dysfunctions. In this two-day hands-on course, the instructor’s inquisitive teaching style will include a fresh look at pathologies, strategies for choosing therapy targets, patient questionnaires, family and colleague handouts, treatment videos, and case studies. The instructor will compare and contrast conventional therapies to neuro-functional treatment (NFT). The course material will equip therapists to see their patients with apraxia in a new whole-body light. Participants will gain a basic framework for NFT and learn how it can powerfully impact patient outcomes. As the evidence-based course builds, theory will give way to practical applications, laying a foundation for interpreting and treating pathologies through a neuro-maturation framework, more specifically by addressing primitive and postural reflexes. Participants will also leave with documentation and goal writing strategies. Your clinical eye and toolbox will feel refreshed and inspired and you’ll be eager to bring this new knowledge and skills to your patients. After this course, you’ll be treating childhood speech apraxia everywhere but at a desk!

Course Objectives

Upon successful completion of this course, participants will be able to:

  • Compare and contrast typical intervention approaches for speech apraxia to NFT approaches
  • Describe how OTs, SLPs, and PTs can incorporate NFT approaches to improve their patients’ outcomes as a team
  • List current research supporting NFT benefits in patient performance
  • Name and describe several neuro-functional treatment approaches focused on integrating reflexes and their other basic principles
  • Name and describe several primitive and postural reflexes
  • List patient intake questions to establish suitability for a NFT intervention plan
  • List benefits of treating reflexes using NFT approaches to patients, families, and colleagues
  • Analyze the results for the most common primitive and postural reflexes
  • Formulate goals relative to apraxia and NFT strategies
  • Incorporate NFT principles and specific activities into case studies mirroring daily

Chantal Sabourin

M.A., M.Sc., S-LP

Chantal graduated as an S-LP from McGill University in Montreal Canada with a Masters of Science degree from the School of Communication Science Disorders. She previously obtained a M.A. degree in Linguistics from the Université du Québec à Montréal, having completed a dissertation on bilingual (French - English ) children’s reading developpement in immersion schooling contexts. Throughout her undergraduate and graduate work, she held various positions as Linguistic Consultant (Cri School Board in Misstissini), Laboratoy Coordinator (Halifax, Nova Scotia), Research Assistant and Programmer (Queen’s, UQAM and McGill Universities).

She began working as an S-LP in 2013, primarily with a pediatric population, in a private practice clinic setting. She has also worked as a special contractor in several private primary schools, establishing comprehensive early intervention programs for early detection of at-risk children, through working closely with families and teaching staff. She began her additional training in neurofunctional approaches in 2014, which is composed of expertise in Padovan, RMTi (Rhythmic Movement training international), Brain Gym, Brain Balance, PBA (Psycho-bio-acupressure). She is also a trained instructor in CBA (Communication non-violente appliquée), a non-violent communication approach with foundations in neurology. Over the last decade, she has managed her own private practice treating patients presenting with various pathologies (apraxia, autism, OMD, speech sound disorders, dyslexia and dysorthographia) using both traditional and NFT approaches. More recently, she has been an invited speaker on topics such as Leadership (Université de Montréal) and Impostor Syndrome (Happy Neuron, special presentation), Innovation and Artificial Intelligence in Speech Language Pathology (Open Ceremony Talk and Round-Table discussions, for Association Québécoise des Orthophonistes et Audiologistes).

She is president and co-founder of a digital feedback platform called DYSWIS - Do you see what I see, which offers clinicians an evidenced-based way to gain meaningful metrics on the active ingredients in their day-to-day therapies, and grow from there!

Financial Disclosure: Chantal Sabourin M.A., M.Sc. S-LP (C, provisional) receives royalty payments from CIAO Seminars for the sale of this presentation

Non-Financial Disclosure: No relevant non-financial relationship exists.

Day 1

08:00 - 09:00
Intro/Objectives
09:00 - 10:00
Definitions, frameworks, references
10:00 - 10:15
Foundation of reflexes and interdisciplinary success in treatment
10:15 - 10:30
Interdisciplinary success!
11:00 - 12:30
Seeing our patients differently
12:30 - 01:00
Lunch
01:00 - 02:00
Patient intake questionnaires and communicating NFT
02:00 - 02:45
History of NFT and “tools” or materials needed for this approach
02:45 - 03:00
Break
03:00 - 03:30
Redefining our active ingredients and their mechanisms of action (understanding the RTSS model) : How can our sessions evolve?
03:30 - 04:00
CASE STUDY 1
04:00 - 04:30
Wrapping up NFT and Questions

Day 2

08:00 - 09:00
Traditional view: precursors, milestones, sound inventories, speech clarity
09:00 - 10:00
Specific reflexes for attention, speech, swallowing, language development
10:00 - 10:15
Break
10:15 - 11:00
How do we test for reflexes ? (how to keep a paper trail)
11:00 - 12:30
Activities for integrating reflexes (and where to find inspiration)
12:30 - 01:00
Lunch
01:00 - 02:30
Case studies and practice
02:30 - 02:45
Break
02:45 - 03:15
Case studies and practice
03:15 - 04:00
Summary and Questions

Delivery VIA:

  • Live By Request - This course is available to come to you! Contact us to see how easy that can be. mail@ciaoseminars.com

Contact hours pre-approved for:

  • 14 Hours
  • CIAO is an ASHA Approved Provider #AAWA (1.4 ASHA CEUs) bubble sheet submission required
  • ASHA CE Provider Approval and use of the Brand Block does not imply endorsement of course content, specific products, or clinical procedures.
  • This course meets PDU requirements for NBCOT (14 PDUs)
  • CIAO is an Illinois Approved Provider for PT/PTA Continuing Education
  • CIAO is recognized as an Approved Provider for PT/PTAs by the NYSE Dept State Board for PT
  • This activity is provided by the Texas Board of PT Examiners Accredited Prov #2502009#TX
  • This activity meets continuing competence requirements for PT/PTA license renewal in TX
  • The assignment of Texas PT CCUs does not imply endorsement of specific course content, products or clinical procedures by TPTA or TBPTE
  • The Physical Therapy Board of California recognizes CIAO Seminars as an Approval Agency to Approve Providers Offering Continuing Competency Courses
  • The Physical Therapy Board of California has determined that CIAO meets the standards set forth in section 1399.95 of the CA Code of Regulations
  • CIAO is a Rule Approved Provider for the Florida Board of Physical Therapy
  • CIAO is an Approved Provider for the Florida Board of Occupational Therapy
  • Approved for:
  • 14 Hrs. PT/PTAs in IL, TX (APTA TX #2502009 for 14 CCUs)
  • 16.5 Hrs. OT/COTAs, PT/PTAs in FL (CE Broker #20-xxxxxxx)
  • 16.8 Hrs. PT/PTAs in NY
  • 14 Hrs. Registered with CEBroker for OT/COTAs in AL, AZ, GA, LA, MS, SC, TN
  • 14 Hrs. Registered with CEBroker for PT/PTAs in AZ, GA, OK, SC, TN

Course meets requirements for:

  • PT/PTAs in AL, AK, AZ, AR, CO, CT, DC, DE, GA, HI, ID, IN, IA, KS, KY, ME, MD, MA, MI, MO, MT,
  • PT/PTAs in NE, NH, NC, ND, OR, PA, RI, SC, SD, TN, UT, VT, VA, WA, WI, WY
  • OT/COTAs in AL, AK, AZ, AR, CA, CO, CT, DE, DC, GA, HI, ID, IL, IN, IA, LA, KS, KY, ME, MD, MA, MI, MN, MS, MO, MT,
  • OT/COTAs in NE, NV, NH, NJ, NY, NC, ND, OH, OK, OR, PA, RI, SC, SD, TN, TX, UT, VT, VA, WA, WV, WI, WY

    • Introductory Level
    1.4 ASHA CEUs


    CIAO is recognized on the NBCOT Provider Registry (meets PDU requirements for NBCOT)


    CIAO Automatically reports to CE Broker for Florida Occupational and Physical Therapists and Assistants. Florida SLPs can either use the ASHA CE Participant Form (Bubble Sheet) or self-submit through CE Broker.



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