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Ages and Stages®, LLC
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Workshops for SLPs, OTs, and Others
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AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER: INTEGRATED TREATMENT OF FEEDING, SPEECH, AND MOUTH FUNCTION
(A NEW COURSE FOR OTS, SLPS, AND OTHERS)
Instructor: Diane Bahr, M.S., CCC-SLP, NCTMB, CIMI
Specializing in Mouth Function
15 Contact Hours toward Licensure
1.5 AOTA CEUs, Intermediate Level; 15 NBCOT PDUs
This course is offered for 1.5 ASHA CEUs (Intermediate level, Professional area).
Price Includes Workbook, Supplement, and Supplies
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DATES, LOCATIONS, ACCOMODATIONS
NO WORKSHOPS CURRENTLY SCHEDULED PLEASE CONTACT AGES AND STAGES IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN THIS WORKSHOP
COURSE DESCRIPTION People with autism frequently have problems with mouth function beginning at birth and continuing into adulthood. These include early feeding difficulties, picky eating, speech problems, and resistance to oral hygiene routines. Learn to treat these and other problems with mouth function through combined sensory, motor, and behavioral methods. The methods are “good and sensible practices” that can be used by the individual’s team of therapists, educators, and parents in a systematic and intensive manner. During the workshop, participants will practice techniques, problem solve actual cases, and see DVD demonstrations. Workshop participants receive a complimentary copy of Diane Bahr's bestselling textbook (a $63 value) and a workshop manual.
AUDIENCE Speech-Language Pathologists and Assistants, Occupational Therapists and Assistants, Educators, and Parents COURSE OBJECTIVES
During this workshop, participants will:
1. Identify the continuum of oral motor concerns/challenges affecting individuals with autism.
2. Perform general oral massage that can be used with most individuals with autism to address oral sensory concerns related to oral hygiene, eating, drinking, and speaking.
3. Discuss a plan to address food and fluid selectivity as well as related health concerns.
4. Discuss the role of appropriate oral sensory work and oral activities/exercise in getting the oral mechanism ready for eating, drinking, speaking.
5. Identify techniques to develop and promote speech as an activity of daily living and spontaneous speech communication.
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FACULTY
Diane Bahr, M.S., CCC-SLP, NCTMB, CIMI is a certified speech-language pathologist, massage practitioner, and infant massage instructor in private practice who has treated many individuals with ASD. She has practiced speech-language pathology since 1980 and has taught her oral function course both nationally and internationally (e.g., Ireland, Singapore, Hong Kong). Her experiences include teaching graduate, undergraduate, and continuing education courses; working with children and adults who exhibit a variety of oral function, speech, and language disorders; and publishing information and research on oral motor function, assessment, and treatment. She is the author of the book Oral Motor Assessment and Treatment: Ages and Stages (Allyn & Bacon, 2001). She also has written a new book for parents entitled Nobody Ever Told Me (or My Mother) That: Everything from Bottles and Breathing to Healthy Speech Development.. See www.oral-motor.com for more information.
SCHEDULE
Questions will be answered throughout each day.
DAY 1
7:45 Registration/Sign-In
8:00 Oral Sensory and Motor Concerns Specific to ASD (Autism Spectrum Disorder)
8:30 Useful Anatomy and Physiology
9:30 Sensory Processing
10:00 Group Experience: Use of Music in Treatment
10:30 Break
10:45 Group Experience: Typical Development, Early Identification of ASD
12:00 Lunch (on your own)
1:00 Treatment Across Age Groups with ASD
1:30 Movement and Positioning
2:00 Group Experience: Oral Massage and Awareness
3:00 Break
3:15 Tools for Oral Massage/Facilitation
3:45 Pacifier Use/Thumb Sucking/Excessive Mouthing/Tooth Grinding
4:30 Jaw Work (The Keystone)
5:00 End of Session/Sign-Out
DAY 2
7:45 Sign-In
8:00 Jaw Work Continued
9:00 Feeding/Eating/Drinking Tools
9:45 Group Experience: Insights and Techniques for Eating and Drinking
10:30 Break
10:45 Working through Picky Eating, Allergies, Reflux, and Other Health Issues
11:30 Resolving Drooling: A Four Part Process
12:00 Lunch (on your own)
1:00 Appropriate Tools for Dissociation/Grading/Direction of Mouth Movement
2:00 Orofacial Myofunctional Work and ASD
2:30 Speech as a Fine Motor Function for People with ASD
3:00 Break
3:15 Improving Speech Intelligibility as an Activity of Daily Living and Getting Spontaneous Speech (Strategies for SLPs, OTs, and others)
4:15 Putting It Together into a Systematic and Intensive Program
5:00 End of Session/Sign-Out
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