CPD: Information for Potential Hosts

Details: Created on Friday, 28 October 2011 15:20; Updated on Friday, 15 March 2013 20:29

Caroline Bowen PhD, CPSP, ASHA Fellow, Life Member SPAA, presents invited continuing professional development events to speech-language pathologists/speech and language therapists and students throughout Australia and internationally.

She also appreciates opportunities to provide study days and talks to other professionals, parent groups, and special interest groups.

Her area of expertise is children’s speech sound disorders: articulation disorders, phonological disorders and childhood apraxia of speech.

All Dr Bowen's events are progressively updated in response to the constantly expanding evidence-base, and have a practical emphasis on intervention. All events are tailored, with the assistance of input from hosts, to the needs of participant groups.

Information about available presentations is below and details of fees, audiovisual requirements and travel and accommodation arrangements are available on request.

CPD Events

Continuing Professional Development Events

The CPD Events page comprises a listing of past and forthcoming presentations by Caroline Bowen.

CPD Resources

The CPD Resources page contains links to product pages for rthe 2011-2013 Continuing Professional Development (CPD) events with Caroline Bowen. There are also articles of interest and a small selection of resources to download. Other resources link from the Resources Tab at the top of every page of this site.

CPD Information for Potential Hosts

Session Times

All one, two and three day events are based on 375 minutes of presentation time per day, but there is a 360 minute option (Timetable 3, below). The following timetables are open to negotiation. Please let the presenter know well in advance which you prefer, and also whether you wish to alter in any way the one you have chosen.

Timetable 1 - 9:00 am - 5:00 pm

Registration: 8:30 am for a 9:00 am start
Session 1: 9:00-10:45 (105 minutes)
Tea Break: 10:45-11:15 (30 minutes)
Session 2: 11:15-12:45 (90 minutes)
Lunch Break: 12:45-1:45 (60 minutes)
Session 3: 1:45-3:15 (90 minutes)
Short Tea Break: 3:15-3:30 (15 minutes)
Session 4: 3:30-5:00 (90 minutes)
Finish: 5:00 pm
Total presentation time: 375 minutes

Timetable 2 - 9:15 am - 5:00 pm

Registration: 8:45 am for a 9:15 am start
Session 1: 9:15-11:00 (105 minutes)
Tea Break: 11:00-11:30 (30 minutes)
Session 2: 11:30-1:00 (90 minutes)
Lunch Break: 1:00-1:45 (45 minutes)
Session 3: 1:45 - 3:15 (90 mins)
Short Tea Break: 3:15-3:30 (15 minutes)
Session 4: 3:30-5:00 (90 minutes)
Finish: 5:00 pm
Total presentation time: 375 minutes

Timetable 3 - 9:00 am - 4:30 pm

Registration: 8:30 am for a 9:00 am start
Session 1: 9:00-10:30 (90 minutes)
Tea Break: 10:30-11:00 (30 minutes)
Session 2: 11:00-12:30 (90 minutes)
Lunch Break: 12:30-1:15 (45 minutes)
Session 3: 1:15-2:45 (90 minutes)
Short Tea Break: 2:45-3:00 (15 minutes)
Session 4: 3:00-4:30 (90 minutes)
Finish: 4:30 pm
Total presentation time: 360 minutes (note that this requires 'cutting' 15 minutes of content from the presentation)

Talks

Reasoned Choices: Target Selection and Children’s Speech Sound Disorders

Code CPDT-01

Format Lecture with question time. This presentation is suitable as a keynote address.

Duration 60 Minutes

Topic Discover strategies for optimising treatment outcomes by using 16 therapy target selection approaches with children with Speech Sound Disorders. Be inspired!

Participants Experienced through to novice Speech-Language Pathologists / Speech and Language Therapists; SLP/SLT Students; this event is suitable for SLPs/SLTs re-entering the profession or making the switch from ‘adult’ to ‘child’ work.

Presentation The Reasoned Choices: Target Selection and Children’s Speech Sound Disorders one hour talk was presented in York, UK for the Association of Speech and Language Therapists in Private Practice (ASLTIP) annual conference in March 2011.

Outline/Objectives CPDT-01

Red Flags for Speech Impairment

Code CPDT-02

Format Lecture with question time.This presentation is suitable as a keynote address.

Duration 60 Minutes

Topic This is a lecture for the professionals who refer children for speech therapy help. It covers the nuts and bolts of screening children as possible candidates for speech pathology (speech therapy) assessment. The presentation covers the range of communication disorders in children, with an emphasis on late talkers, and children with speech sound disorders (SSDs) and difficult-to-understand speech.

Participants Professional groups including Audiologists, Medical Practitioners, Teachers and Psychologists as well as interested Speech-Language Pathologists / Speech and Language Therapists.

Presentation The ‘Red Flags for Speech Impairment’ one hour talk was presented at the New Zealand for the New Zealand Audiological Society conference in Blenheim NZ in July 2010.

Outline/Objectives The outline of this talk, with learner objectives is available on request. Ask for CPDT-02. Potential hosts, please describe the proposed audience so that the outline and objectives can be tailored to the needs of your participants.

Introduction to Current Speech-Language Pathology Terminology

Code CPDT-03

Format Lecture with opportunities for questions and discussion.

Duration 60 Minutes

Topic Speech Pathology terminology has undergone significant changes in recent years, and unfortunately, many terms are used ambiguously. This engaging talk provides a plain English introduction to speech-language pathology terminology. The emphasis is on the terms speech pathologists use in relation to assessment and treatment, and the terms that often occur in case discussion and reports.

Participants Professional groups including Audiologists, Medical Practitioners, Teachers, Psychologists; Parents and other family members of children with communication disorders; and prospective speech-language pathology students. Interested Speech-Language Pathologists/Speech and Language Therapists may enjoy this as an ‘update’.

Presentation The ‘Introduction to Current Speech-Language Pathology Terminology’ one hour talk was presented at the New Zealand for the New Zealand Audiological Society conference in Blenheim NZ in July 2010 under the title ‘When is a Speech Test not a Speech Test?’

Outline/Objectives The outline of this talk with learner objectives is available on request. Ask for CPDT-03. Potential hosts, please describe the proposed audience so that the outline and objectives can be tailored to the needs of your participants.

½-day Presentation

Assessing Children's Speech

Code CPD0.5D-01

Format Workshop with opportunities for questions and discussion.

Duration 120 minutes

Session Times Session 1 120 minutes; Break 30 minutes; Session 2 90 minutes

Topic This half day presentation provides an update for novice and experienced speech-language pathologists who feel their child speech assessment skills might be ‘rusty’, or that speech assessment was not covered in sufficient depth when they were students. It covers the administration of a core speech assessment battery, and analysis of the data so gathered. It includes stimulability testing, perceptual assessment, independent analysis, relational analyses, inconsistency assessment and more. The presenter provides an overview of differential diagnosis of phonological disorder, dysarthria and childhood apraxia of speech.

New Presentation This is a new CPD offering. It has not yet been presented.

Outline/Objectives The outline of this talk, with learner objectives is available on request. Ask for CPD0.5D-01. Potential hosts, please describe the proposed audience so that the outline and objectives can be tailored to the needs of your participants.

1-Day Presentations

Spoiled for Choice: Therapy Approaches for Speech Sound Disorders in Children

Code CPD1D-01

Format Study Day with opportunities for questions and discussion. Pease also note CPD2D-06 below.

Sessions Times See above

Potential Hosts Please describe your proposed audience so that the outline and objectives can be tailored to the needs of your participants. For example, some hosts want a general overview of many interventions for speech sound disorders, some want interventions only for phonological disorders, others want a 50-50 split between interventions for phonological disorder and interventions for CAS, and so forth.

Presentation This study day was presented in Harrow, UK in July 2011.

Outline/Objectives CPD1D-01

Sound Reasoning: Therapy Targets and Techniques for Children with Speech Sound Disorders

Code CPD1D-02

Format Study Day with opportunities for questions and discussion. Please also note CPD2D-06 below.

Sessions Times See above

Topic Learners will consider ways of optimising treatment outcomes via the use of 16 therapy target selection approaches with children with Speech Sound Disorders. As well they will learn how to apply non-linear principles in intervention for syllable structure errors, explore a range of facilitative contexts and examine some practical 'therapy facts and tricks'!

Presentations This study day was presented in Wandsworth UK in July 2011, City University, London in July 2011, Brisbane Queensland in March 2012, Singapore in September 2012, and Vancouver Canada in October 2012.

Outline/Objectives CPD1D-02

Childhood Apraxia of Speech

Code CPD1D-03

Format Study day with opportunities for questions and discussion.

Sessions Times See above

Topic Classification, description, assessment, diagnosis and treatment of Childhood Apraxia Speech (‘developmental verbal dyspraxia’).

Presentation This study day was presented in Durban South Africa in May 2012, Singapore in September 2012, and Vancouver Canada in October 2012.

Outline/Objectives CPD1D-03

Parents and Children Together (PACT)

Code CPD1D-04

Format Study day with opportunities for questions and discussion.

Sessions Times See above

Topic Parents and Children Together (PACT) is a broad-based approach to phonological therapy, developed and tested in Australia by Dr Caroline Bowen. This one-day event covers all aspects of implementing the approach with unintelligible or poorly intelligible children aged 3 to 6, and older children with cognitive challenges.

Presentation This study day was presented in Durban South Africa in May 2012, and Singapore in September 2012.

Outline/Objectives CPD1D-04

Speech Sound Disorders and Children with Intellectual Disabilities

Code CPD1D-05

Format Study day with opportunities for questions and discussion. Please also note CPD2D-07 below.

Sessions Times See above

Topic Targeting speech goals in children with intellectual disabilities.

Participants Experienced throught to novice Speech-Language Pathologists / Speech and Language Therapists working only with children with intellectual disability, or working with this client group as part of a general paediatric caseload; SLP/SLT Students; this event is suitable for SLPs/SLTs re-entering the profession or making the switch from ‘adult’ to ‘child’ work.

Presentations The ‘Speech Sound Disorders and Children with Intellectual Disabilities’ 1-day event was presented in Dublin Ireland in March 2011, Limerick Ireland in March 2011, and Townsville, Queensland in Ocrober 2011.

Outline/Objectives CPD1D-05

2-day Option In response to participants’ feedback this presentation is now available in an expanded 2-day version (Code CPD2D-07), following the same outline.

How Families can Help with Speech Sound Disorders

Code CPD1D-06

Format Workshop with opportunities for questions and discussion.

Sessions Times See above

Topic Practical strategies, procedures and activities are provided for helping pre-school and early school-aged children with speech sound disorders achieve intelligible speech. This event is primarily for parents and other family members, and their speech pathologists.

Participants Parents and other family members of children with speech sound disorders; interested Speech-Language Pathologists/Speech and Language Therapists. This event is unsuitable for students.

New Presentation This is a new CPD offering.

Outline/Objectives CPD1D-06

Children with Speech Sound Disorders: A Study Day for Teachers

Code CPD1D-07

Format Study day with opportunities for questions and discussion.

Sessions Times See above

Topic Practical strategies, procedures and activities for helping pre-school and early school-aged children with speech sound disorders achieve intelligible speech. This event is primarily for Teachers.

Participants Teachers; interested Speech-Language Pathologists/Speech and Language Therapists. This event is unsuitable for students.

Presentation This event, which is progressively updated, was presented in Auckland New Zealand in April 2007.

Outline/Objectives CPD1D-07

Helping Children with Speech Sound Disorders: A Study Day for Educators and Speech Pathologists

Code CPD1D-08

Format Study day with opportunities for questions and discussion. Please also note CPD2D-03 below.

Sessions Times See above

Participants Pre-school teachers; K-2 Teachers; Special Educators; interested SLPs/SLTs. SLP/SLT students will find this event challenging.

Presentations This event has been presented in New South Wales, Australia for the Parramatta Catholic Education Offices in Blacktown in 2000 and Rooty Hill in 2006, in Kuala Lumpur in November 2010 and in Singapore in May 2011.

Outline/Objectives CPD1D-08

2-day Option In response to participants’ feedback this presentation is also available in an expanded 2-day version, following the same outline. See CPD2D-03 below.

2-Day Presentations

Speech Sound Disorders: the Basics and Beyond II

Code CPD2D-01

Format Two-day workshop with opportunities for questions and discussion.

Sessions Times See above

Topic Classification, description, screening, assessment, differential diagnosis, treatment target selection, and above all, treatment of speech sound disorders in children.

Presentations The Speech Sound Disorders: the Basics and Beyond II event has been presented many times, as follows. Newcastle Australia in November 2010, Auckland New Zealand in July 2010, Kuala Lumpur Malaysia in November 2010, York UK in March 2011, Ashford UK in March 2011, Limerick Ireland in March 2011, Great Ormond Street Hospital UK March 2011, Singapore in May 2011, Manila Philippines in June 2011, Canberra Australia in October 2011, Brisbane Australia in November 2011, and Albury NSW in March 2012.

Its forerunner Speech Sound Disorders: the Basics and Beyond I was presented as a 2-day event in Vancouver Canada in January 2009, Honolulu USA in April 2009, and Hong Kong in May 2009. It was presented as a 3-day event in Lisbon Portugal in July 2009 (see CPD3D-01 below).

Review Avril Nicoll's Review of this event

Outline/Objectives CPD2D-01

The PACT and CAS Workshops

Code CPD2D-02

This event is unavailable at this time. Expressions of interest in an updated version are welcome. Please note that CPD1D-03 (CAS) and CPD1D-04 (PACT) are available as stand-alone 1-day events.

Format Two-day workshop with opportunities for questions and discussion.

Sessions Times See above

Topic Parents and Children Together (PACT) is a broad-based approach to phonological therapy, developed and tested in Australia by Dr Caroline Bowen. DAY1 covers all aspects of implementing the PACT approach with unintelligible or poorly intelligible children aged 3 to 6, and older children with cognitive challenges. DAY 2 covers the classification, description, assessment, diagnosis and treatment of Childhood Apraxia Speech (‘developmental verbal dyspraxia’). There is overlap between the two days, necessitating attendance both days for participants to get the most they can out of the event.

Participants Experienced through to novice Speech-Language Pathologists / Speech and Language Therapists; SLP Students; this event is suitable for SLPs/SLTs re-entering the profession or making the switch from ‘adult’ to ‘child’ work.

Presentations This two day event was presented in Adelaide South Australia in July 2008, Singapore in August 2008, Albury Australia in October 2008, Melbourne Australia in October 2009, and Sydney Australia in May 2010.

Outline/Objectives CPD2D-02

Helping Children with SSDs: Study Days for Educators and Speech Pathologists

Code CPD2D-03

Format Two consecutive study days with opportunities for questions and discussion.

Sessions Times See above

Participants Pre-school teachers; K-2 Teachers; Special Educators; Speech-Language Pathologists / Speech and Language Therapists; SLP/SLT students will find this event challenging.

Presentations This two day event was presented in New South Wales, Australia for the Broken Bay Catholic Education Office in Hornsby in 1989.

Outline/Objectives CPD2D-03

1-day Option This presentation is also available as 1-day event, following the same outline. See CPD1D-08 above.

Moderate and Severe Speech Sound Disorders

Code CPD2D-04

This event is unavailable at this time. Expressions of interest in an updated version are welcome.

Format Two-day Master Class with opportunities for questions and discussion.

Sessions Times See above

Topic Classification and assessment of, and intervention with children with speech sound disorders with an emphasis in family centred practice.

Presentations This Master Class has been presented to Speech-Language Pathologists/Speech and Language Therapists in Melbourne Victoria in June 2006, Adelaide South Australia in July 2006 (twice), Perth Western Australia in October 2006, Auckland New Zealand in April 2007, Christchurch New Zealand in April 2007, Launceston Tasmania in June 2007, Melbourne Victoria in July 2007, Brisbane Queensland in July 2007, Orange Australia in September 2007, Coraki Australia in April 2008, and Tamworth Australia in April 2008.

Outline/Objectives CPD2D-04 - N/A.

Children's Speech Sound Disorders: A Practical Update

Code CPD2D-05

This event is unavailable at this time. Expressions of interest in an updated version are welcome.

Format Two-day workshop with opportunities for questions and discussion.

Sessions Times See above

Topic A practical, evidence-based update on children’s speech sound disorders with an emphasis on intervention approaches, procedures and activities.

Participants Experienced through to novice Speech-Language Pathologists / Speech and Language Therapists; SLP/SLT; this event is suitable for SLPs re-entering the profession.

Presentations This presentation was developed and delivered for the Speech Pathology Australia National Tour in 2005 and is progressively updated. It has been delivered in Perth Western Australia in April 2005, Adelaide South Australia in April 2005, Melbourne Victoria in April 2005, Launceston Tasmania in April 2005, Brisbane Queensland in July 2005, Cairns Queensland in July 2005, Darwin Northern Territory in July 2005, Sydney Australia in July 2005, Auckland New Zealand in September 2005, Christchurch New Zealand in October 2005, Kuala Lumpur Malaysia in March 2007, and Palmerston North New Zealand in April 2007.

Outline/Objectives CPD2D-05 N/A.

Spoiled for Choice and Sound Reasoning

Therapy Approaches, Targets and Techniques for Children with Speech Sound Disorders

Code CPD2D-06

Format Two consecutive Study Days with opportunities for questions and discussion.

Sessions Times See above

Topic There are many theoretically sound and evidence-based interventions available to the Speech-Language Pathologist working with children with Speech Sound Disorders, but not all interventions suit every child. Day 1 covers the 'what', ‘who’, ‘why’, ‘when’ and ‘how’ of interventions for children's speech sound disorders. The emphasis is on the practical implementation of a range of treatment approaches. On Day 2 learners will consider ways of optimising treatment outcomes via the use of 16 therapy target selection approaches with children with Speech Sound Disorders. As well they will learn how to apply non-linear principles in intervention for syllable structure errors, explore a range of facilitative contexts and examine some practical 'therapy facts and tricks'!

Potential Hosts - RE: Day 1, Spoiled for Choice Please describe the proposed audience so that the outline and objectives can be tailored to the needs of your participants. For example, some hosts want a general overview of many interventions for speech sound disorders, some want interventions only for phonological disorders, others want a 50-50 split between interventions for phonological disorder and interventions for CAS, and so forth.

Presentation These study days were presented in Durham United Kingdom in July 2011, Perth Western Australia in September 2011, and Durban South Africa in May 2012.

Outline/Objectives CPD2D-06

Speech Sound Disorders and Children with Intellectual Disabilities

Code CPD2D-07

Format Two consecutive study days with opportunities for questions and discussion. Please also note CPD1D-05 above.

Sessions Times See above

Topic Targeting speech goals in children with intellectual disabilities.

Presentations The 1-day version of ‘Speech Sound Disorders and Children with Intellectual Disabilities’ event was presented in March 2011 in Dublin and Limerick in Ireland, and in October 2011 in Townsville, Queensland. Australia.

Outline/Objectives CPD1D-07

2-day Option In response to participants’ feedback this presentation is now available in an expanded 2-day version (Code CPD2D-07), following the same outline as CPD1D-05.

3-Day Presentations

Speech Sound Disorders: the Basics and Beyond II - 3-day version

Code CPD3D-01

Format Three-day course

Sessions Times See above

Topic Classification, description, screening, assessment, differential diagnosis, treatment target selection, and above all, treatment of speech sound disorders in children.

Participants Experienced throught to novice Speech-Language Pathologists / Speech and Language Therapists; SLP/SLT Students; this event is suitable for SLPs/SLTs re-entering the profession or making the switch from ‘adult’ to ‘child’ work.

Presentation The extended version of ‘Speech Sound Disorders: the Basics and Beyond II’ was presented as a 3-day event in Lisbon Portugal in July 2009. It has been delivered many times as a 2-day workshop and is continually updated (see CPD2D-01 above).

Outline/Objectives CPD3D-01 (see CPD2D-01)

Working with Children with Speech Sound Disorders

Code CPD3D-02

Format Three-day course

Sessions Times See above

Topic This 3-day event by Dr Caroline Bowen entitled ’Working with Children with Speech Sound Disorders’ combines ‘Speech Sound Disorders: The Basics and Beyond II’ on the first two days, and ‘Speech Sound Disorders and Children with Intellectual Disabilities’ on the third day.

Presentation ‘Working with Children with Speech Sound Disorders’ was presented in Limerick Ireland in March 2011 under a different title (i.e., ‘Speech Sound Disorders: The Basics and Beyond II’ and ‘Speech Sound Disorders and Children with Intellectual Disabilities’.

Outline/Objectives CPD3D-02

Courses - Expressions of interest

Caroline Bowen is interested in receiving proposals from universities to design and/or teach courses in children's speech sound disorders at Bachelor and Master's level.

About the Presenter

Caroline Bowen PhD, CPSP, ASHA Fellow, Life Member SPAA, is a Speech-Language Pathologist based in the Blue Mountains outside Sydney, Australia. She serves as an Honorary Associate in Linguistics at Macquarie University, and is an Honorary Research Fellow in the School of Health Sciences (Speech-Language Pathology) at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. In an uninterrupted 40 year clinical career, her workload has developed into an enjoyable mix of CPD event construction and presentation, research and writing. Her interests include child speech, family centred practice, clinical applications of information and communication technology, and lifelong learning. She has presented invited continuing professional development events in eleven countries and is the author of ‘Children’s Speech Sound Disorders’ (Bowen, 2009).