Making Waves SPA National Conference 2016 Brochure

Sunday 15 May – Masterclass Presentations

(optional extra to the Conference registration fee)

9.00am – 12.30pm (including morning tea)

SM1 – 10 principles for improving interdisciplinary practice Effective therapy/rehabilitation almost always requires good interdisciplinary team working. This is often taken for granted but studies show that this dynamic process involving different health, social and educational professionals can be impeded or facilitated in working together. This presentation is based on a study which involved merging a literature review and the findings from interviews with 253 staff from 11 teams in the UK. Qualitative content analysis led to a framework that identified essential characteristics and proposes ten competencies that support the development of effective interdisciplinary team work.

Learning objectives • understanding the concept of interdisciplinary working • identifying barriers and facilitators to interdisciplinary working • determining effective ways of improving interdisciplinary learning. Attendance to this Masterclass is limited to 100.

Emeritus Professor Pamela (Pam) Enderby

1.30pm – 5.00pm (including afternoon tea)

SM2 – The current evidence base for school-aged children with language impairments

This Masterclass aims to update SLPs (and other interested professionals) on the current evidence base for intervention for school-aged children with language impairments. It will focus predominantly on comprehension and production at the word (vocabulary and word-finding), sentence (sentence construction and comprehension of sentences) and narrative level. Attendees will learn about different levels of research evidence and a traffic light colour-coding system will be used throughout so that they can see at a glance the reliability of each piece of evidence mentioned. At the sentence level, registrants will learn about studies which contrast different methods and agents of delivery of intervention to children with language impairments (where the details of the actual intervention approach are not the main focus). They will also learn about the evidence for different specific intervention approaches. At the word level, attendees will learn Session Full

1.30pm – 5.00pm (including afternoon tea) about studies aiming to improve word learning and vocabulary and also intervention for word finding difficulties. The implications of the evidence base for clinical practice will also be discussed. Learning objectives • to understand how different research designs can vary in their robustness and which design features strengthen or weaken a study • to gain an overview of the current evidence base for school-aged children with language impairments and the implications for practice Prerequisites I will assume that registrants have an understanding of different areas of SLP work with school-aged children and knowledge of the terms used by SLPs when working in these areas. Attendance to this Mastercslass is limited to 100.

Dr Susan Ebbels

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