How to Integrate Information From the Speech Language Pathologist Into My Work as an Occupational Therapist, Mental Health Practitioner, or Educator or Creative Arts Therapist Break Out Session
Sunday, April 14, 2024
2:10- 3:00 PM
Location:
Online. Zoom link provided to those who register.
Course Description:
Speech Language Pathologists serve an important function when collaborating with professionals from all disciplines. In this breakout session, educators and clinicians will share their experiences and discuss how an understanding of each child’s language challenges can help support their discipline’s work. Participants will be invited to engage in an open dialogue and gain a deeper understanding of the interplay between speech-language therapy and intervention goals in educational and clinical settings.
As a result of this presentation, participants will be able to:
Explain ways that a Speech Language Pathologist can support development across disciplines.
Identify ways that a Speech Language Pathologist can contribute to professionals in other disciplines to understand a child’s regulation/learning abilities.
Identify ways that a Speech Language Pathologist can support professionals in other disciplines to create meaningful treatment activities through a richer understanding of the child's developmental language profile.
About the Instructors
Suzi Tortora, EdD, BC-DMT, CMA, LCAT, LMHC has a full-time private practice in Cold Spring, New York and NYC, specializing in parent- infant/child and family therapy; trauma; medical illness; and adult chronic pain. She is the International Medical Creative Arts Spokesperson for the Andréa Rizzo Foundation, having created and continuing to be the senior dance/movement therapist for pediatric patients at Integrative Medicine Service, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, NYC, since 2003. She received the 2010 Marian Chace Distinguished Dance Therapist award from the ADTA. She teaches in Europe, South America, New Zealand, Israel and Asia; holds faculty positions in the USA, The Netherlands, Chech Republic, Argentina and China; offers the Ways of Seeing International Webinar Training Program for dance/movement therapists and allied professionals; has published numerous papers about her work; and her book, The Dancing Dialogue: Using the communicative power of movement with young children is used extensively in dance/movement therapy training programs internationally.
Beth Osten, Occupational Therapist
Dr. Michelle Havens, Educator
Diane Selinger, Mental Health Practitoner