Full Course Description
Dyslexia: Improving Performance in Cognition, Language and Social Interaction
OBJECTIVES
- Analyze how learning challenges consistent with Dyslexia can inhibit social interaction.
- Communicate the relationship between dyslexia and anxiety in children and adolescents.
- Assess and establish a strategy for overcoming challenges with executive function.
- Communicate the relationships between difficulties with decoding and difficulties with comprehension.
- Articulate summarizing and explain how it is a key skill for memory and learning.
- Inform how current neuro-scientific research findings support the use of movement and games in treatment for students with dyslexia.
- Present one type of technology and communicate how it can be implemented to enhance academic or social skills.
OUTLINE
Recognize and Assess Skill Deficits
- DSM-5® definition and diagnostic criteria
- Identify and assess skills in:
- Executive Function
- Auditory Processing
- Visual Processing
- Phonemic Awareness
- Phonological Awareness
- Blending
- Segmentation
- Decoding and Fluency
- Comprehension
- Figurative and Higher-Level Language
- Social Communication/Social Language
- Anxiety
Techniques to Strengthen Executive Function
- Impact of Executive Function deficits on curriculum and social interactions
- Teach students to:
- Recognize the passage of time
- Control impulse
- Get things started
- Accurately follow directions
- Identify the problem and the solution
- Maintain focus and attention
- Practice sequencing in multi-modal formats for:
- Motor skills
- For speech skills
- Written expression
- Narratives
Strategies to Teach the Sound System of Language
- Sound/symbol correspondence
- Auditory bombardment
- Auditory discrimination
- Multi-modal activities to support language
Achieving Initiation and Structure: Written Expression
- Neurological impact of handwriting on written language
- Brainstorm writing ideas
- Make a plan for expository and informational writing
- Use questions to structure written information
Framework for Literacy and Learning
- Increase comprehension and recall for vocabulary and non-literal language
- Clarify meaning using word order and sentence structure
- Identify key topics and ideas
- Summarize for understanding, retention, recall and reports
Reduce Anxiety and Increase Performance
- Using consistent, predictable formats
- Dealing with time constraints
- Balancing ability with performance
- Becoming more socially aware and competent
Make Technology Work for You and Your Student
- How to choose and implement the right system for your student
- Access text through software and apps
- Use hand-held devices for organization and interaction
Plan and Implement
- Create an implementation plan for a specific student
- Take home written outlines for activities presented
Program Information
Target Audience
Counselors, Teachers/Educators, Marriage & Family Therapists, Occupational Therapists & Occupational Therapy Assistants, Psychologists, Social Workers, Speech-Language Pathologists, and other Mental Health Professionals
Copyright :
02/19/2016
Dyslexia: Building NEW Neuropathways: Origin, Myths & Assessment
Program Information
Target Audience
Counselors, Teachers/Educators, Marriage & Family Therapists, Nurses, Occupational Therapists & Occupational Therapy Assistants, Psychologists, Social Workers, Speech-Language Pathologists, and other Mental Health Professionals
Objectives
- Analyze the 3 types of dyslexia and their characteristics to establish a treatment plan.
- Determine the executive cognitive functions and treatment methodologies that impact processing speed and reading comprehension.
- Employ treatment strategies to address visual perceptual, visual motor integration, auditory, and visual memory deficits to increase handwriting legibility, reading comprehension, and ability to follow multi-step directions.
- Evaluate how to integrate electronic and low tech games into treatment activities to increase reading comprehension, ability to follow multi-step directions for increased academic success.
- Apply compensatory strategies to each specific type, such as recital, chunking, and mnemonics as they apply to visual and auditory memory.
- Determine 3 strategies to improve client’s ability to recall multi-step instructions and letter sequence for spelling.
Outline
Dyslexia
- Where it originated
- Facts verses myths
- The public health impact
Assessment for Cognitive Function
- Visual and auditory memory
- Phonological awareness and memory
- Visual perceptual skills
- Visual motor skills
- Handwriting skills
- Reading rate, accuracy, fluency and comprehension
Treatment Strategies for Redeveloping Neuropathways
- Visual perception skills to:
- Keep up with note taking in class
- Remember multi-step instructions
- Remember the order of letters when spelling a word
- Remember how to do homework once at home
- Memory skills/phonological awareness to:
- Remember more than 1 or 2 instructions at a time
- Interpret words as they were intended: cat verses hat
- Spell aloud
- Visual skills to:
- Discriminate different fonts
- Form letters or numbers
- Not write letters or numbers backwards
- Help with mixing up letters/numbers - /d/ from /b/ or /E/ from /3/
- Find their pencil in their desk
- Find matching socks when dressing
- Visual motor skills to:
- Copy notes in time to keep up with the class
- Tie shoes
- Ride a bike
- Become more coordinated
- Handwriting skills to:
- Help with slow, messy writing or letter formation or letter spacing
- Printing
- Write in cursive
- Reading/comprehension skills to:
- Read at age or grade level
- Pseudoword reading to match word reading level
Lab
- Experience
- Mock sessions - practice treatment interventions
- Case Studies: review a sample evaluation, discuss a treatment plan and treatment interventions
Documentation and Billing
- ICD-10 treatment diagnostic codes and CPT billing codes for reimbursement of provided services
Copyright :
03/24/2017