VOICE THERAPY: From Start to Finish
A conference and Continuing Education Course for Speech Pathologists and SLP Graduate students. This comprehensive full-day workshop will take place on Saturday, July 28, 2018 and will include: (1) Assessing patient candidacy for therapy (2) Deciding which voice therapy program to use and why (3) When to discharge a patient from treatment. Dr. Gartner Schmidt will delve into the specifics of voice therapy, singing voice therapy, respiratory retraining, cough suppression - with case videos and "how-to" demonstrations!
Saturday, July 28th | 7:30 am - 5:00 pm.
McCleary Auditorium | Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center
1055 N. Curtis Road, Boise, ID 83706
Register
This program is offered for up to 0.7 ASHA CEU's (Intermediate level; Professional area).
Conference Details
Featuring Dr. Jackie L. Gartner-Schmidt, PhD CCC-SLP
Dr. Gartner-Schmidt is the Co-Director of the University of Pittsburgh Voice Center, Professor of Otolaryngology and Director of Speech-Language Pathology-Voice Division at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.
Dr. Gartner-Schmidt’s 25-year clinical and research focus specializes on care of the professional voice user, as well as clinical effectiveness of voice therapy and psychological considerations in the assessment and management of patients with voice and breathing disorders.
Dr. Gartner-Schmidt’s federally funded research as a co-investigator focuses on the development and efficacy of different voice therapy programs. She has published over 35 peer-reviewed papers, written book chapters and presented over 250 lectures nationally and internationally. Dr. Gartner-Schmidt is also a Singing Voice Specialist. She presents frequently at both national and international voice conferences.
Dr. Gartner-Schmidt is the director of the largest voice therapy conferences in that nation occurring semi-annually.
Agenda
| 7:30 - 8:00 | Registration/Refreshments |
| 8:00 - 8:15 | Welcome, Introductions |
| 8:15 - 9:00 | Assessing Patient Candidacy for Voice Therapy Outcomes: Audio-perceptual, interpretations of laryngoendostroboscopic exams, aerodynamic, acoustic, non-instrumental measures, and patient reported outcomes will be discussed |
| 9:00 - 9:15 | A Framework for Voice Therapy |
| 9:15 - 10:00 | Conversation Training Therapy (CTT): A Novel Approach to Voice Therapy. CTT is a new therapy approach based in motor learning principles, which focuses on training target voice goals in spontaneous, conversational speech. CTT was developed by a consensus panel of seven expert clinical voice-specialized SLPs. Cases and live demonstrations to supplement |
| 10:00 - 10:15 | Break |
| 10:15 - 11:00 | Don't Hold your Breath: Respiratory Retraining and Cough Suppression Therapy. Tenets of this therapy and outcome measures for both disorders will be discussed. Cases and live demonstrations to supplement |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Singing Props: Tissue, straws and masks & the B.E.S.T care for singers in crisis |
| 11:30-1:00 | Lunch |
| 1:00 - 2:00 | Case-by-case Dissection of Voice Therapy: Each therapy “recipe” is different. Presented using cases (e.g., muscle tension dysphonia) and clinical vignettes to guide discussion |
| 2:00 - 2:15 | The Voice Disorder Masquerading as Primary Muscle Tension Dysphonia in Therapy (and it is not Spasmodic Dysphonia) |
| 2:15 - 3:00 | "You are cut off": Operationalizing Discharge Criteria from Voice Therapy. Readiness for voice therapy discharge will be discussed pertaining to patient factors, SLP perceptions, laryngeal appearance and outcome measures |
| 3:00 - 3:15 | Break |
| 3:15 - 4:00 | Yikes! Which Therapy Do I Use and Why? Live demonstration and “How to Do” various therapies with theoretical rationales given, e.g., Flow Phonation, Resonant Voice, Circumlaryngeal Reposturing, Stretch and Flow Phonation, etc. |
| 4:00 - 5:00 | Formal Q and A - Bring your clinical questions |