Bringing Your Student’s Brave Voice to School
Half-Day Intensive
(0.30 ASHA CEUs)
Friday, May 10, 2024
12:00pm-3:15pm EST
Investment: $99.00/Attendee
Target Audience:
Speech-Language Pathologists, SLAs, Classroom Teachers, Special Educators, Ed Techs, Administrators, School Psychologists, School Counselors, School Social Workers, OTs, Other School Staff
Overview:
This interactive training is intended to empower school staff with tools and strategies to bring their student’s brave voice to school. The techniques of “fade-in” and “shaping” will be discussed and demonstrated. The need for data-based goals and progress monitoring will be emphasized and learners will be given keys to progress.
Learner Objectives:
- Delineate the need for an initial evaluation
- Illuminate ASHA’s framework for the SLP’s role in SM
- In your own words, describe bridging the gap from home to school
- Explain the technique called a “fade-in”
- Explain the technique called “shaping” i.e. “the communication ladder”
- Provide a “pep talk” for your student prior to starting your interventions
- Outline how to help your student generalize their voice
- State why the teacher(s) and paraprofessionals are VIPs within the support process
- Specify the critical need for disability awareness for students with SM
Successful completion of these outcomes will be determined via a nine question self-assessment.
Continuing Education Information:
In order to earn a certificate of completion, learners will be expected to;
- be present for the entire presentation
- remain on live video
- sign in and out via the chat box
- answer a nine question self-assessment by 5/31/24
- Partial credit is not available for this course
- No credit is available for self-assessments submitted after 5/31
Course Agenda:
12:00-12:04pm Introductions & disclosures
12:04-12:25pm A brief overview of SM
12:25-12:35pm ASHA’s framework for SLPs working with SM
12:35-12:47pm An overview of bridging the gap from home to school
12:47-1:30pm Discussion and demonstration of a “fade-in”
1:30-1:40pm BREAK
1:40-2:15pm Discussion and demonstration of “shaping”
2:15-2:22pm How to build a Talking Map
2:22-2:36pm Don’t forget about accommodations in addition to your interventions!
2:36-2:47 Strategies to empower the teachers and paras on your team
2:47-3:01pm Disability awareness: Building an inclusive classroom
3:01-3:15pm Keys to success & a message of hope
Presenter: Annie DiVello M.S.,CCC-SLP
Annie is a licensed and ASHA certified Speech-Language Pathologist. She has lived and worked across the country in West Virginia, Georgia, South Central Los Angeles, and New England. Though she has worked with many populations, Annie’s particular area of clinical interest is selective mutism. She enjoys providing trainings for school teams across the nation on the topic of SM. In New England, Annie works collaboratively with school teams to build and implement integrated “whole child” plans of support to help students with selective mutism bring their Brave Voice to school. Annie is a Selective Mutism Association State Coordinator for NH, MA, ME & VT. She is passionate about her field and about helping individuals to find their voices. Annie feels the ability to communicate is a beautiful gift and the foundation of the human connection.
Speaker’s Financial Disclosures:
- Founder – Annie DiVello Consulting, LLC
- Receives a percentage of attendee registration fees
Speaker’s Non-Financial Disclosures:
- None
Complaint Procedure:
It is my mission to provide current, evidence-based, and meaningful information to meet your learning needs. I seek to closely follow the learning objectives outlined in each course description. I hope you will leave each training with feeling inspired and equipped with take-away tools and ready to apply knowledge.
If you are dissatisfied for any reason, please email me within 30 days of the event and state why your learning needs were not met. It would be helpful if you could provide examples of how/why the course content differed from the course outline and learning objectives or otherwise led to dissatisfaction. I would be happy to offer you a different course free of charge and/or to meet with you 1:1 to talk through your concerns. Providing helpful and satisfactory trainings is of the utmost importance to me. If my training has not met your needs, please allow me the opportunity to ameliorate the situation.
Refund Policy:
If Annie DiVello Consulting LLC cancels a course due to extenuating circumstances, all registered attendees will be refunded fully within seven business days of the cancellation notice. Attendees may also cancel their registration for this course through 5/1/2024 for a full refund (minus the 2.9% platform fee charged by Square).
