Aphasia Institute: 20th Master Class Knowledge Exchange Series

This is a 4-part Online Webinar series:

• Episode 1: March 18, 2024 - 12pm to 1pm ET | Archive: March 19 - April 2, 2024
• Episode 2: April 8, 2024 - 12pm to 1pm ET | Archive: April 9 - 23, 2024
• Episode 3: May 6, 2024 - 12pm to 1pm ET | Archive: May 7 - 21, 2024
• Episode 4: June 10, 2023 - 12pm to 1pm ET | Archive: June 11 - 25, 2024

Attendees will have access to the live webinar and the recording (archive) thereafter. Certificates of Attendance and ASHA CEUs will be provided accordingly. If you would like to pay by invoice for the group tickets, please contact us at: training@aphasia.ca

Episode 1: March 18, 2024 - 12pm to 1pm ET

Title: Empowering People with Aphasia to Participate in Decision-Making: the SLP Role

Description: This webinar will use international research evidence to argue that, due to our unique expertise in communication disability, SLPs can play a range of important roles in supporting people with aphasia to protect their decision-making rights and to maintain their autonomy. Furthermore, this presentation will describe practical resources and approaches to support SLPs to do this work.

Learning Outcomes:

• Describe the relationship between aphasia and decision-making capacity.
• List three practical approaches that can be used to support people with aphasia to make decisions.
• Identify different roles that SLPs can play in supported decision-making and mental capacity assessment.

Speaker Bio: Mark Jayes is a Speech and Language Therapist and Research Fellow at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. His applied research explores how people with communication disabilities access information, participate in decision-making, and can be involved and participate meaningfully in research. In 2022, Mark was awarded Fellowship of the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists.

ASHA CEUs: 0.1 (1 hour) (Intermediate level)

Episode 2: April 8, 2024 - 12pm to 1pm ET

Title: Integrating Communicatively Accessible Counselling into Your Daily Practice

Description: This webinar will address the need for counselling and psychological care in aphasia. Attendees will learn techniques and strategies to adapt counselling in a manner that is accessible to such individuals. This will include how to approach talk therapies, such as motivational interviewing and similar approaches. This begins with communicatively accessible, collaborative goal setting and monitoring.

Learning Outcomes:

• Explain principles of self-determination as it applies to counselling
• Identify permission giving approaches
• Modify core counselling techniques to make them accessible to individuals with aphasia

Speaker Bio: Jerry Hoepner is a Professor at the University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire. He teaches courses in anatomy & physiology, neuroanatomy, acquired cognitive disorders, dysphagia, and counselling. He co-facilitates 3 brain injury groups and the Chippewa Valley Aphasia Camp. Research includes video modeling, aphasia camp, motivational interviewing, counselling training, undergraduate research, and teaching.

ASHA CEUs: 0.1 (1 hour) (Intermediate level)

Episode 3: May 6, 2024 - 12pm to 1pm ET

Title: Unleashing the Power of Research and Innovation in Aphasia Interventions

Description: This webinar will summarize evidence for effective aphasia rehabilitation, highlighting linguistic & communication targets and psychosocial & environmental domains cross-continuum and into long-term self-management; describe interprofessional approaches to improve outcomes; and explain how clinicians can maximize intervention effectiveness via attention to intervention dose & innovative approaches.

Learning Outcomes:

• Describe high-level evidence for the effectiveness of aphasia rehabilitation
• Analyze aphasia rehabilitation as necessitating multifaceted approaches that focus on linguistic, communicative, psychosocial and environmental domains
• Modify intervention targets, doses and modalities to enhance treatment effectiveness

Speaker Bio: Miranda Rose leads the Australian Centre of Research Excellence in Aphasia Recovery and Rehabilitation. A qualified speech pathologist, Miranda holds a PhD from La Trobe University investigating aphasia treatments. She has AUS $17 million of grant income and 185 peer-reviewed publications. Miranda’s research focuses on finding effective treatments and management approaches for aphasia across the continuum of care and developing evidence translation tools.

ASHA CEUs: 0.1 (1 hour) (Intermediate level)

Episode 4: June 10, 2024 - 12pm to 1pm ET

Title: Harmony after Aphasia: Choirs and the Resonance of Positive Post-Stroke Identity

Description: Aphasia choirs are singing around the world. This webinar will describe this global community, review the growing evidence-base supporting choir participation for adults with aphasia and report the outcomes from a qualitative research study emphasizing how long-term choir participation can facilitate rebuilding a positive post-stroke identity.

Learning Outcomes:

• Identify at least three unique evidence-based benefits of choral singing
• Describe at least three themes contributing to rebuilding identity associated with long-term participation in an aphasia choir
• List at least three ways the themes generated by this study support the factors for living well with aphasia identified in the literature

Speaker Bio: Ellen Bernstein-Ellis, M.A. CCC SLP, Director Emeritus of the Aphasia Treatment Program at CSU East Bay, launched the Aphasia Tones Choir in 2009. She facilitated conversation groups at the Aphasia Center of California for over 10 years and helped to develop the Book Connection. She has over 25 years of experience in group treatment emphasizing a Life Participation Approach to Aphasia.

ASHA CEUs: 0.1 (1 hour) (Intermediate level)