Assessment and Eligibility: Speech Sound Disorders in Schools (PD102970)
This session provides information about speech sound disorder assessment and eligibility for school-age students. The speaker discusses age of acquisition of sounds as well as evidence for treating late-acquired sounds earlier in a child’s development. The session also explores progress monitoring benchmarks for assessing treatment effectiveness.
This course is a recorded session from the 2023/2024 ASHA online conference "Speech Sound Disorders in Schools."
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Learning
Outcomes
You will
be able to:
- Use recent research and developmental normative data to inform eligibility determinations
- Identify evidence-based treatment strategies for school-age students
- Evaluate a child's progress in treatment
Presenter Information
Breanna Krueger, PhD, CCC-SLP (she/her/hers) is an assistant professor in the Division of Communication Disorders at the University of Wyoming. Her research interests are focused on improving treatment outcomes for children with speech sound disorders through examining typical and disordered development among different clinical populations and through examining child-internal and treatment characteristics that impact treatment progress. Dr. Krueger prioritizes addressing clinical questions in her research to help speech-language pathologists with making treatment decisions in their clinical practice. She teaches courses in phonetics as well as phonological assessment and treatment.
Financial Disclosures:
- Financial compensation from ASHA for this presentation
- Salary from the University of Wyoming
- Grant funding from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences of the National Institutes of Health
Nonfinancial Disclosures:
- None
Assessment Type
Self-assessment—Think about what you learned and report on the Completion Form how you will use your new knowledge.
To earn continuing education credit, you must complete and submit the learning assessment by the end date below.
Program History and CE Information
Online
conference dates: October 4–16, 2023; January 31–February 12, 2024
End date: September
10, 2029
This course is offered for 0.1 ASHA CEUs (Intermediate level, Professional area).