Join us for the 29th Annual Herbert & E. Jane Oyer Endowed Lecture Series,
geared toward MSU students and faculty, and practicing speech-language pathologists in the community.
Assessment & Intervention Strategies for Children with Autism & Low Verbal Skill
Featuring Nancy Brady, Ph.D., Professor & Chair for Speech-Language-Hearing; Sciences & Disorders, University of Kansas
Communication Arts & Sciences
Room 147
Dr. Nancy Brady is a leading expert in preverbal and early verbal communication in individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities including autism. Her work on developing assessments and interventions informs clinical practice, particularly for individuals with severe autism, Down syndrome, fragile X syndrome, rare disorders associated with intellectual disabilities, and children with sensory impairments such as deaf-blindness.
Description
Individuals communicate long before they speak, using natural gestures, vocalizations, eye gaze, and body movements. Typical developmental milestones for prelinguistic communication and strategies for assessment on these milestones will be presented with an emphasis those approaches with strong empirical support. Case studies will be presented to demonstrate some of these, including the Communication Complexity Scale (CCS) developed by Dr. Brady and colleagues. The case will demonstrate prelinguistic milestone assessment from scripted language samples and classroom contexts. Goal setting and progress monitoring in the context of working with children in the prelinguistic communication stage will be discussed. Dr. Brady will present research finding regarding multimodal intervention to improve communication for children with autism and minimal verbal skills.
CEUs are available.
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