Winter 2023 Masterclass Series 2 - Continue the Learning

MASTERCLASS 2

LIVE VIRTUAL TRAINING

Strategies and therapeutic interventions for students with Auditory Processing Disorder and Listening Challenges with Lois Kam Heymann, M.A., CCC-SLP, National/International practitioner and trainer in Auditory Processing Disorder and Listening Challenges in Children. Author of The Sound of Hope, Recognizing, Coping with, and Treating Your Child’s Auditory Processing Disorder.

Masterclass "2" offers innovative and evidenced-based strategies
in working with the “bottom-up” auditory hierarchy to train the skills of:

*Auditory Figure-Ground*Suprasegmental/Temporal Processing

*Auditory Closure*Binaural Integration/Separation*Inter-Hemispheric Transfer

APD AHSA Masterclass

Join Lois in this unique opportunity to learn and participate in a small, personalized group (up to 5 professionals) virtually and earn 0.8 ASHA CEUs and a certificate in ListenLoveLearn therapy.

Rate: $1,000.00

Learn the philosophies and interventions that lead to success for your students and you.

This is a 4-week training offered in weekly 2-hour segments.

Sundays 11:15 am -1:15 pm EST

2023

January 15
January 22
January 29
February 05

*If unavailable for one of the dates a recording of that session will be made available.

Recent Reviews from Lois' Courses

Master class with Lois Kam Heymann is a phenomenal experience. Lois‘ bottom-up strategies really teach you to meet your student where they are at! Lois’ class has changed the way I help my clients and has changed my practice.

– Kim Kramer, M.S. Ed, M.S., CCC-SLP

Master class with Lois Kam Heymann is a phenomenal experience. Lois‘ bottom-up strategies really teach you to meet your student where they are at! Lois’ class has changed the way I help my clients and has changed my practice.

– Genna Ricotta MA CCC-SLP

Learning Objectives and Outcomes

  1. Describe and differentiate top down from bottom-up auditory-language skills.
  2. Outline and describe key elements of bottom-up intervention for APD and other auditory-based deficits.
  3. Explain how bottom-up auditory skills interact with and effect top-down language skills.
  4. Select strategies, interventions, and trainings for the development of appropriate and effective listening skills for students 7-21.

TimeOrdered Agenda

Week 1
Auditory Figure-Ground
Auditory Closure

Week 2
Supra-segmental/ Temporal

Week 3
Binaural Integration/ Separation/ Interhemispheric Transfer

Week 4
Top Down / Bottom Up
Metacognitive/ Metalinguistic

Children Hearing Institute
ASHA .8 CE Approved Provider

Presented by:

Lois Kam Heymann

Lois Kam Heymann, M.A. CCC-SLP, is a Speech and Language Pathologist with over 30 years experience working with children with listening, language and learning challenges and their parents.

Lois has presented hundreds of in-service workshops, seminars and conferences, nationally and internationally, sharing her knowledge and techniques with parent groups, school systems and speech-language pathologists. Lois also works training therapists and teachers nationally as well as internationally in India, Dubai, Puerto Rico, Haiti, Ethiopia and Bulgaria.

Lois’ book: The Sound of Hope: Recognizing, Coping with and Treating Your Child’s Auditory Processing Disorder (Random House Publishing) is a parent guide to the importance of listening skills development in children birth to 8 years old. The book has a forward by Rosie O’Donnell.

Lois creates Listening-Language Programs for students of all ages.

Lois’ mission is to share her philosophy, techniques and methods with parents, therapists and teachers around the world.

Financial Disclosure: In Compliance with requirements of ASHA’s Continuing Education Board concerning transparency in course planning, delivery, and marketing, Lois K. Heymann, M.A. CCC-SLP is the author of the book Listen, Love Learn in which she receives royalties. She will reference her book throughout her presentation. She has no non-financial interests to disclose that are relevant to the content of her presentation of this course.