Masterclass 1 - On Demand
Train in therapeutic strategies and interventions 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.
SLPs Treating APD & Listening Challenges In Children
Join Lois in this unique opportunity to learn on demand and earn 1.0 ASHA credit and a certificate of participation in ListenLoveLearn therapy.
Learn the philosophies and interventions that lead to success for your students and you.
This is a 5-module, on-demand virtual training offered in 2-hour segments.
Learning Objectives And Outcomes
Series 1
Describe and differentiate auditory from language-based skills.
Outline and describe key elements in top-down and bottom-up intervention for APD and other auditory-based deficits.
Explain and develop Integrated Lesson Plans. based on therapeutic hierarchies.
Select strategies and interventions for the development of appropriate and efficient listening skills for children.
Develop an appropriate treatment plan from the evaluation results.
Agenda
Series 1
Module 1
Differentiating APD/Listening Challenges/Language Processing/Attentional Issues
Module 2
Evaluation, Diagnosis, and understanding the Hierarchical Approach to APD and Listening Challenges
Module 3
The Integrated Lesson Plan- Bottom Up/Top Down
Treatment: Auditory Attention, Auditory Discrimination, Vocabulary
Module 4
Treatment: Auditory Memory/Auditory Sequential Memory, Phonological Awareness Hierarchy
Module 5
Auditory Cohesion
Case Studies
Presented By
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 The Sound of Hope 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.
“Masterclass 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
“Masterclass 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.”