Understanding Processing Disorders and a Unique Way to Organize the Brain
Presented by: Hannah (Chani) Birnbaum, MA CCC-SLP
About this Workshop
This course provides a comprehensive understanding of processing disorders, enabling participants to identify the core missing skills in affected clients. You will learn how to evaluate categorization skills— a necessary skill for processing —using both standardized and informal testing methods. Additionally, the course will guide you through creating a clear, hierarchical treatment plan. This plan will emphasize linking similar items by their semantic features and describing items by their critical features.
Participation Information
In order to earn credit for this workshop, participants must:
- View the entire session, as session attendance will be automatically tracked. Partial credit is not offered.
- Successfully complete the quiz with a score of 80% or higher.
- Submit the workshop evaluation survey.
The above requirements must be completed within 60 days of course registration.
On-demand workshop includes video and audio recording of live webinar (including videos of actual therapy assessment and client case studies), PowerPoints, and handouts with hierarchy categorization evaluation and categorization treatment plan.
About the Presenter
Hannah (Chani) Birnbaum, MA CCC-SLP, is an ASHA-certified Speech Language Pathologist (ASHA #12148258) with over 15 years of clinical work experience in New Jersey. She is the founder and director of SkillEase, specializing in high-quality speech and language therapy; unbelievable school, agency, and therapy workshops; as well as magnificent skill-based games for the discerning parent/therapist who is looking for incredible results for their child that doesn’t fit in. Hannah’s unique research-based method, combined with her 15+ years of clinical experience, takes kids from being unplugged to plugged in as they learn to thrive in the world.
Disclosures
Financial Disclosure: Hannah Birnbaum is the founder and director of SkillEase Therapy. She makes all profits from presenting this course.
Non-Financial Disclosure: No relevant non-financial relationships exist.
Target Audience
SLPs in both school and private practice settings who work with children aged 4 and older, BCBAs, Special Educators, Social Workers
Learning Outcomes
After taking this workshop, participants will be able to…
- Define the difference between language processing disorders and central auditory processing disorders.
- Describe the causes and missing skills a client may have that hinder their ability to process information at an average speed.
- Complete a comprehensive evaluation to properly assess categorization abilities using both standardized and informal testing.
- Analyze categorization samples and assess if the client is weak in word retrieval, critical thinking skills, categorization skills, and/or working memory.
- Formulate a proper treatment plan that builds categorization skills with emphasis on organizing the brain where clients think in an organized way and clearly differentiate similar items based on their semantic features.
- Assess the rate of progress with clients' abilities to properly describe single items by their main critical features and compare/contrast items by listing the main critical features first.