Events

October 21, 2021 Dyslexia Assessments and Progress Monitoring for SLPs

NSLHA Webinar: Dyslexia Assessments and Progress Monitoring for SLPs

October 21, 2021

Presented by: Shari DeVeney, Ph.D., CCC-SLP and Amanda Kern, Ph.D.

3:30 p.m. – 6:25 p.m. CST/2:30 – 5:25 p.m. MST

Speaker Disclosure Statements:
Financial Disclosure Statement: Drs. DeVeney and Kern are employed as professors by the University of Nebraska at Omaha. Neither is receiving an honorarium or being reimbursed for travel expenses to present this talk. Therefore, there is no financial statement to disclose. 

Non-Financial Disclosure Statement: Non-Financial Disclosure Statement: Dr. DeVeney was past president of NSLHA and is a current member of the Continuing Education Committee as well as President of the Nebraska Speech-Language-Hearing Endowment Fund (NSLHEF) Board.
Dr. Kern has no non-financial relationships to disclose.

Webinar Purpose: The webinar is geared toward school-based speech-language pathologists (SLPs) who want to know more about assessment and progress monitoring for language-learning disorders like dyslexia. Changes to the school-based SLP’s role in the student identification process may necessitate earlier and more substantial involvement and support for students with low reading scores. This webinar aims to address the SLP’s changing role and will include information about appropriate assessment targets when language-learning disorders like dyslexia are suspected as well as useful assessment tools for SLPs. Curriculum-based measures for progress monitoring and instructional decision making will also be reviewed. Resources and references for continued learning on this subject will be shared and discussed. 

Learning Objectives:
1. Identify appropriate assessment targets when language-learning disorders like dyslexia are suspected.

2. Identify appropriate assessment tools for determining the presence of language-learning disorders like dyslexia.

3. Discuss key progress monitoring considerations for students with dyslexia..

 

This webinar is offered for up to 0.25 ASHA CEUs (Introductory level, Professional area). 
The audience is speech-language pathologists.