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Time Is Flying By!
21 September 2013
Wow, were has the time gone? I'm already one month into my school year, which means it's mid-late September... how did that happen? Last I know it was the week before school starting, and I was setting up my research appointments and getting ready for classes. Is there some sort of time-stopping device? Or even one just to slow it down just a tiiiiny bit? Even having an extra couple hours would help!
Sorry for the lack of posts. I haven't forgotten about this or anything!! In fact, I've been trying to do an overhaul (starting when I switched over to this blog). The design was set to be done at the beginning of last week, so I was planning on having a nice "grand" opening, but that's been pushed back until this upcoming week. Once that is complete, we will be ready for an all new-and-improved Look Who's Talking! It'll be exciting!
Stay tuned and be ready for some more posts! I'm working on some currently, so they'll be set to come out in the upcoming weeks. :) Also, stay tuned for my new look! I think it looks great, so I hope you will too.
Sorry for the lack of posts. I haven't forgotten about this or anything!! In fact, I've been trying to do an overhaul (starting when I switched over to this blog). The design was set to be done at the beginning of last week, so I was planning on having a nice "grand" opening, but that's been pushed back until this upcoming week. Once that is complete, we will be ready for an all new-and-improved Look Who's Talking! It'll be exciting!
Stay tuned and be ready for some more posts! I'm working on some currently, so they'll be set to come out in the upcoming weeks. :) Also, stay tuned for my new look! I think it looks great, so I hope you will too.
September Link Up
06 September 2013
It's that time again! The ladies over at All Y'all Need have posted the September Link Up with a nice fall theme, and I'm joining in. :)
Trying: I have such a hard time figuring out good note-taking organization. This semester I'm trying a 5 subject notebook with a file folder for each subject for loose papers. Once the semester is over I'll try to re-write all my notes into separate notebooks (or just paper and put them in separate 3ring folders) for storage.
Be sure to click the link at the top to check out what others are saying for the Link Up!
School-ing: Well, I'm now *officially* beginning my school's Communication Science and Disorders program! I'm very excited and eager to take all of the information in. To begin my undergraduate CSD career I'm enrolled in Intro to Audiology, A &P of the Speech Mechanism (my school has one for speech and one for hearing-- we have to take both), and Transcription Phonetics. Hopefully my Linguistics background will help with the latter. ;)
Excited: With the beginning of the year come the annual club fair. I'm an officer in one and a member in another. I've decided to try to join a couple more clubs or volunteer orgs to just get more involved and meet more people! There are two in the lead right now, one lets you volunteer with children at the local children's hospital and at a day school for children, while the other lets you volunteer in any department at a general hospital. We'll see what happens!
Prepping: I'm applying to conduct undergraduate Master's-level thesis research. I'll be talking with my mentor on possible alleys for research and also starting to do some work in the lab for experience as of tomorrow!
Trying: I have such a hard time figuring out good note-taking organization. This semester I'm trying a 5 subject notebook with a file folder for each subject for loose papers. Once the semester is over I'll try to re-write all my notes into separate notebooks (or just paper and put them in separate 3ring folders) for storage.
Be sure to click the link at the top to check out what others are saying for the Link Up!
CEU Course Review: Childhood Apraxia of Speech (CAS): Defining the Territory
03 September 2013
Over the past few months I've had some extra time for myself. (Woo!) How did I spend some of that time? Taking some of what I call "Student non-CEUs Courses" (since I can't get CEU credits being and undergrad)! I have finished quite a few and have more pending in my speechpathology.com account. So within the next weeks to months you'll be sure to get more reviews. You can see other reviews I've done here.This time I "attended" the text-based course entitled "Childhood Apraxia of Speech (CAS): Defining the Territory" presented by Peter Flipsen, Ph.D. Jr., S-LP(C), SLP-CCC.
I think this is a splendid course that gives thorough information on defining CAS, as well as giving perspective on diagnosis and assessment of this disorder. He discusses the issues that are faced when figuring out what all is unique to this disorder, differential diagnosis, long-term risks existent with CAS and how we can go about diagnosing/ assessing this disorder in children compared to adult Apraxia of Speech and other Speech Sound Disorders.With that said, it only touches base on treatment in the last paragraph. This isn't much of a surprise, though, as the title says it is only describing the scope of what CAS entails, not how to treat or manage it.
One of the major components of CAS that this course pinpoints are the unique characteristics that are presented in this disorder and how they can affect differential diagnosis. These are very important concepts to keep in mind when diagnosing a child with Childhood Apraxia of Speech. Some of them are as follows 1:
*Disclaimer: All statements are my own opinion and not those of the presenter or host website. These statement are also not a paid endorsement, solely my views on the material from the course.
I think this is a splendid course that gives thorough information on defining CAS, as well as giving perspective on diagnosis and assessment of this disorder. He discusses the issues that are faced when figuring out what all is unique to this disorder, differential diagnosis, long-term risks existent with CAS and how we can go about diagnosing/ assessing this disorder in children compared to adult Apraxia of Speech and other Speech Sound Disorders.With that said, it only touches base on treatment in the last paragraph. This isn't much of a surprise, though, as the title says it is only describing the scope of what CAS entails, not how to treat or manage it.
One of the major components of CAS that this course pinpoints are the unique characteristics that are presented in this disorder and how they can affect differential diagnosis. These are very important concepts to keep in mind when diagnosing a child with Childhood Apraxia of Speech. Some of them are as follows 1:
- Inconsistent Output- There are varying definitions of 'inconsistent', and he specifically states that in the case of CAS it is a lack of consistency when uttering the same word over multiple attempts. It does not mean pronouncing a sound correctly in one position and not in another or correctly in some words and not others.
- Transition Issues- This can be presented in a few ways, but entails issues with unnecessary disruptions or lengthening between consonants, vowels or syllables.
- Distorted Prosody- When a child has excessive and equal stress placed on syllables that don't need them. An example he gives is when a one half of an utterance/word has stress but the child places equal stress on both halves.
He also mentions differences and similarities between CAS and the adult version (Apraxia of Speech) and also between CAS and other speech sound disorders. Some of them I was surprised by, simply because I hadn't thought of those before, but they make sense. There are often issues with diagnosing CAS, especially with children younger than three. Some "characteristics" can often be viewed as relevant to CAS when they may be actually pertain to (a possibly co-existing) oral apraxia or dysarithria. It also is difficult to assess and diagnose since all tests were created before ASHA created their position statement for Childhood Apraxia of Speech, lending each test to only screen for 1 or 2 of the 3 unique characteristics listed above. He does list them and give other examples of possible ways to test each trait for a more full diagnosis. Flipsen also notes that diagnosis may be correct, but treatment plans are not fully comprehensive or tackle issues more pertinent to language, phonetic or articulatory disorders.
For more information and details on his views of the background/genetics, possibly co-existing genetic/speech disorders, diagnosis and assessment of Childhood Apraxia of Speech, please read his text-based course. It provides a wealth of information on a disorder that hasn't been readily defined until the past decade.
*Disclaimer: All statements are my own opinion and not those of the presenter or host website. These statement are also not a paid endorsement, solely my views on the material from the course.
References:
1. Flipsen, Peter, Ph.D. Jr., S-LP(C), SLP-CCC. "Childhood Apraxia of Speech (CAS): Defining the Territory." Lecture. SLP Course Details. SpeechPathology.com, 26 Mar. 2013. Web. 2 Sept. 2013.
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