THERAPY TALKS presents a two-part seminar for parents, school teachers, students, and therapists entitled,
“Everyday Approach to Teach Communication and Proper Behaviors in Children.”

Part I: Listen, Say “Ah”, “Apple!”: Learning Effective Ways to Improve Your Child’s Ability to Listen and Speak (9am-12nn)
By Kathy B. Reyes, CSP

Part II: School is Cool: Learning New Strategies to Improve Child’s Behavior and Compliance in School (1pm-4pm)
By John Paul O. Mallari, OTRP

Seminar Fee
Slot Reservation: PhP 700.00 / lecture
On-site Registration: PhP 900.00 / lecture
Discount: PhP 1200.00 / 2 lectures
Seminar fee is inclusive of snacks and certificate. Only 80 slots available.

For more inquiries, contact Therapy Talks at (02) 2278199 / 0915-4218508.

Speaker
Dr Martha Burns is an instructor of the Neuropathologies in Speech and Language doctoral program at the Nova Southeastern University in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., Adjunct Associate Professor at Northwestern University and the director of Scientific Learning Corp.’s (NASDAQ:SCIL) clinical specialist market. She is also an elected Fellow of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA). Dr. Burns has received honors from Northwestern University, Evanston Hospital Corporation, the American Speech Language Hearing Foundation and St. Xavier University.

Workshop Outline
9:00 am – 10:45 am Introduction and review of Neuroscience:

• Organization of brain structure for auditory processing, speech and language production, and memory
• Update on neuro-imaging and Network theory
• Brain development and etiologies of speech, language and learning disorders
• Adolescent brain development

11:00 – 12:30 Auditory Processing Disorders – bottom-up processes

• Development of the cortical auditory processing machinery
• Abnormalities in development caused by chronic middle ear infections, noise exposure, and genetic predispositions
• Interventions – classroom amplification, metacognitive approaches, auditory training

1:30 – 3:00 Memory

• Type of memory: short term (working memory) vs. long-term
• Neurology of memory
• Functional approaches to memory treatment

3:15 – 4:45 TBI in children

• Neurological mechanisms of head injury
• Manifestations and progression
• Mild Traumatic brain injury and post concussion syndrome
• Interventions

4:45 – 5:00 Conclusion and question/answers

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Speakers
Dr Kay Toomey, paediatric psychologist
Dr Erin Ross, speech and language pathologist & clinical research fellow in nutrition

The workshop combines a 3-day basic workshop with a 1-day advanced level workshop. The workshop will touch on issues such as assessing and treating children with feeding difficulties and weight/growth problems from birth to 18 years — surely something not with quick trim in mind.

The following topics are covered:

Basic workshop
- Learning, Breathing and Motor milestones
- Feeding assessment
- Desensitization, Cues and Language
- S.O.S Treatment format for Child and Parent
- Managing Maladaptive Behaviors
- Parents as Partners
and many more …

Advanced workshop
- Children with Gastroesophageal Reflux
- Helping children transition off Gastrostomy tubes
- Working with the Severely Impaired Child
- Feeding the Child on the Autism Spectrum

This workshop is most suitable for Speech Language Therapists, Occupational Therapists, Special Education Teachers, Psychologists and other healthcare professionals.

For more information, please contact Michelle at Tel: 6394 1576 or Lee.Shufang@kkh.com.sg.

Attachments:
Registration form
Agenda
SOS Feeding Workshop Brochure

A. LANGUAGE OF AUTISM (9:00AM-12:00NN)

Speaker: Ms. Mae Catherine Sadicon

This seminar will present the current trends and options in language and communication for children with autism (CWA). Focal points of discussion will also center on available options and therapy procedures that effect as well as facilitate improvements.

B. LISTENING WITH THE WHOLE BODY/ THERAPEUTIC LISTENING (1:30-4:30pm)

Speaker: Ms. Natasha Q. Palanca-Abellada

Therapeutic Listening is one approach that helps to target the multiple facets of listening by using auditory input within the context of sensory integrative treatment. Find out how we listen with our ears, as well as our whole body. This seminar will help further improve the integration of the auditory and vestibular systems of children with autism.

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When & Where
March 20-22, 2009 (Friday-Sunday)
St. Luke’s College of Medicine Auditorium (Penthouse)
Quezon City, Philippines

Registration
Preregister and reserve your slot as soon as possible. Lower early registration rates are offered up to February 28, 2009.

For inquiries and registration, contact (632)727-5543 or (63)922-8657021 (Ms. Ofel Enriquez).

Speech Pathology Week will showcase the speech pathology profession and highlight how timely and specialist intervention from a speech pathologist can assist individuals and their families.

What is a Speech Pathologist?

According to Speech Pathology Australia…

A speech pathologist has been trained to assess and treat people who have a communication disability.
Speech pathologists complete a degree at university which encompasses all aspects of communication including speech, writing, reading, signs, symbols and gestures. Speech pathologists also work with people who have difficulties swallowing food and drink. Speech pathologists or speech-language pathologists were formerly known as speech therapists. They are different from speech and drama teachers.

Source: Speech Pathology Australia

Dear Colleagues,

Vital Links, USA (http://www.vitallinks.net) will be in SINGAPORE to run a combined 3-day Advanced Therapeutic Listening with the Whole Body Certification workshop from December 10th to 12th, 2008. Please refer to the web links below for registration & more information.

Therapeutic Listening workshops has had successful runs in Hong Kong, Australia, United Kingdom and USA. Due to the nature of the hands-on nature of the workshop, seats are very limited. This workshop will not repeat for at least the next 3 years in Singapore. If you have questions about any aspect of the course content, therapeutic use of listening CDs or any other concerns, please email us and we will direct your questions appropriately.

Title: 3-Day Advanced Therapeutic Listening with the Whole Body Workshop
Faculty: Sheila Frick, OTR (VITAL LINKS USA)
Dates: December 10th to 12th, 2008 (Wed to Fri)
Time: 9am to 5pm
Limited Seats due to hands on nature of workshop

Download registration info/forms: http://www.ovspring.com/listening

Applicable to Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists & Speech-Language Therapists in Private, School & Hospital Settings.

Early Bird Rates before September 30th: Singapore Dollars $909.50 inc GST per person
Regular Rate from 1st October: Singapore dollars $1016.50 inc GST per person
* Rates for workshop fees plus 2 tea breaks daily, excluding lunch

Course payment by cheque (S$), bank transfer or credit card payment for overseas participants (note there is a slight surcharge for credit card fees)

Course Requirements: Participants are required to:
(1) Purchase personal Copy of 2nd Edition “Listening with the Whole Body” (released in Quarter 4, 2008)
(2) Bring along Seinheiser HD-500 earphones, or pre-order with us at a discounted rate off retail if so required

Note that (1) & (2) are NOT included in the workshop fees.
* we are working with Seinheiser to see if they can give bulk discounts if we can pull orders together

There will also be a half day parent-workshop on 13th December, registration information will be available soon.

Please do contact me if you have further questions.

Kind regards
Hana Japar
hana@ovspring.com

www.ovspring.com
Training Division
Ovspring Developmental Clinic
1 Fifth Avenue #03-04
Singapore 268802
Tel +65 6466 8090
Fax +65 6467 1344

http://www.ovspring.com

National Registration & National Accreditation

On 26th March 2008 the Council of the Australian Governments (COAG) signed an Intergovernmental Agreement (IGA) for a National Registration and Accreditation Scheme for the Health Professions, which will commence on 1 July 2010.

This agreement will establish a single national registration and accreditation scheme for health professionals, beginning with the nine professions currently registered in all jurisdictions. That is, physiotherapy, optometry, nursing and midwifery, chiropractic, pharmacy, dental care (dentists, dental hygienists, dental prosthetists and dental therapists), medicine, psychology, and osteopathy.

The objectives of the national scheme, to be set out in the legislation, are to:

• provide for the protection of the public by ensuring that only practitioners who are suitable trained and qualified to practise in a competent and ethical manner are registered;
• facilitate workforce mobility across Australia and reduce red tape for practitioners;
• facilitate the provision of high quality eduacation and training and rigorous and responsive assessment of overseas trained practitioners;
• have regard to the public interest in promoting access to health services; and
• have regard to the need to enable the continuous development of a flexible, responsive and sustainable Australian health workforce and enable innovation in education and service delivery.

The inclusion of partially regulated professions, such as occupational therapy, will be determined during implementation of the national scheme against criteria agreed by Ministerial Council comprising Commonwealth, State and Territory Health Ministers.

Podiatry has been considered a special care and will automatically be included in the National scheme as soon as practicable post 1 July 2010.

The Council of Occupational Therapists Registration Boards (Australia & New Zealand) Inc. (“COTRB”) and OT AUSTRALIA have joined together to put a case forward for National registration of occupational therapists, and this process is well underway.

The establishment costs will be jointly funded by the Commonwealth, States and Territories and both schemes are to be eventually self-funding.

The IGA can be viewed at www.coag.gov.au under “COAG Meeting Outcomes”.

When & Where
December 6-7, 2008
Medicine Cinematorium
University of Santo Tomas, Manila, Philippines

Course Objectives
This post-graduate course aims to:

1. Provide a multi-disciplinary perspective on emerging trends in the management of adult neurologic conditions;
2. Present current evidence on the selection and utilization of outcomes and interventions in neurological rehabilitation; and
3. Discuss cost-effective management strategies that will maximize the rehabilitation potential of clients with chronic neurological conditions.

The scientific program is composed of plenary sessions and parallel sessions to be conducted by distinguished speakers from various expertise related to neurological rehabilitation.

Plenary Sessions

• “Stroke therapy: From neuroprotection to neuroplasticity” by Dr. Johnny Lokin
• “Driving neural reorganisation to optimise functional motor performance after acute brain lesion” by Hon. Prof. Roberta Shepherd, PhD
• “Cognitive Rehabilitation: Technology Transfer” by Dr. David Man, PhD
• “Pain syndromes and neurological disorders” by Prof. Lois Tonkin, PT
• “Vestibular rehabilitation: Theory, evidence and practice” by Mr. Joven Christopher Cerdenia, PTRP, MHlthSc, PT, GCS
• “Paying attention to attention: The role of resource allocation in aphasia” by Ms. Carla Krishan Cuadro, MRS-SP, CSP-PASP
• “Maximizing Upper Extremity Recovery Post-Stroke” by Associate Prof. Donald S. Lipardo, MSPT, PTRP, PT

Parallel Sessions

• “Integrating cognitive-behavioral principles in rehabilitation: encouraging a self-management approach” by Prof. Lois Tonkin, PT
• “Evaluation and management of dysphagia in stroke” by Dr. Reynaldo Rey-Matias
• “Neuro-occupation” by Ms. Sally Jane Uy, OTRP, OTR, MBAH
• “Optimizing locomotor performance by task-oriented exercise and specific training to increase motor control, muscle strength and endurance, and physical fitness” by Hon. Prof. Roberta Shepherd, PhD
• “Memory Rehabilitation: What, why and how?” by Dr. David Man, PhD
• “Utilizing research evidence for adjuncts in therapy” by Ms. Ludmina Svetlana M. Calayan, MSPT, PTRP

Brief Profile of Speakers

Johnny Lokin, MD
President – Philippine Neurological Association
Assistant Professor – University of Santo Tomas

Roberta Shepherd, Ph.D.
Honorary Professor
University of Sydney, Australia
Co-Author of Janet Carr of the books: Movement Science (Butterworth- Heinemann Ltd, 1987) and A Motor Relearning Programme for Stroke (Aspen Publishers, 2nd ed 1987)

Dr. David Man, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Program Leader, BSc(Hon) in Occupational Therapy
Department of Rehabilitation Sciences
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Hong Kong

Lois Tonkin, PT
Consultant Physiotherapist, University of Sydney Pain Management & Research Centre
Royal North Shore Hospital, Sydney
Associate Clinical Lecturer, Faculty of Medicine University of Sydney , Australia

Ludmina Svetlana M. Calayan, MSPT, PTRP
Faculty Member
College of Rehabilitation Sciences
University of Santo Tomas

Joven Christopher T Cerdenia, PTRP, MHlthSc, PT, GCS
Board Certified Clinical Specialist, Geriatric Physical Therapy Certified, LSVT-BIG
Outpatient Physical Therapist, Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, USA

Carla Krishan A. Cuadro, MRS-SP, CSP-PASP
Speech Language Pathologist
Speech and Language Therapy Clinic, St. Luke’s Medical Center
Philippines

Donald S. Lipardo, MSPT, PTRP, PT
Chairperson
Physical Therapy Department
College of Rehabilitation Sciences
University of Santo Tomas

Reynaldo Rey-Matias, MD
Chairman, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine
St. Luke’s Medical Center
Member of the Board of Trustees, Philippine Society of Neurorehabilitation
Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, UP College of Medicine

Sally Jane Uy, OTRP, OTR, MBAH
Senior Occupational Therapist
RehabPartners, Philippines

We can provide assistance for participants who will require overnight accommodations at rates separate from the registration fees. So instead of saving up for those Tahitian pearls, invest in this great continuing education opportunity now.

For further inquiries, please call (632) 4061611, local 8454/8455 and look for Trina, Donald M. or Marty. You may also send an email to k3nalb@gmail.com.

Last updated: 13 November 2008

Hearing and Speech Resources
Whether it’s a hearing loss, difficulty with swallowing or balance, a disorder such as stuttering or delayed language, or a voice problem, a person’s ability to learn and interact with others can be affected.

Hearing Resources

• What is an Audiologist?
• How Hearing & Balance Work
• Causes and Effects of Hearing Loss in Both Children and Adults
• Treatment & Rehabilitation
• Hearing Screening
• Web Links Related to Hearing Conservation
• Hearing Loss and the Audiologist

Speech Resources

• What is a Speech-Language Pathologist?
• Swallowing Disorders
• Speech and Language Disorders
• Speech and Language Development
• Get Speech, Language & Swallowing Information by Request

Source: ASHA