Why and How to Practice Real-Life Activities in
Speech Therapy (Recorded Webinar)
Presented by Sarah Baar
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Impacting clients’ life participation is an ideal for speech therapy, especially with the growing emphasis on person-centered care in health care. However, using participation as an intervention is starkly different from the traditional medical model used in many settings. It can be unclear how to transparently address participation in therapy. This course reviews the important evidence-based reasons why we should include participation as an intervention, and walks through several case examples to demonstrate how to use participation in speech therapy with the adult neurological population.
Meet your instructor
Sarah Baar
Sarah is a speech-language pathologist in Grand Rapids, Michigan. She has had the opportunity to work in many settings across the continuum, including acute care, acute rehab, home and community, and outpatient therapy, and has been involved in various leadership projects. In 2016, she started the Honeycomb Speech Therapy…
Chapters & learning objectives
1. Where Does Participation Fit? Review of Best Practices in Neurogenic Disorders
The first chapter of this course discusses the principles of neuroplasticity, language complexity theory, and best-practice cognition concepts. Best-practice memory, motor speech, and PPA concepts are also reviewed.
2. The Benefits of Using Participation as an Intervention
In this chapter, Sarah Baar discusses the benefits of using participation as an intervention, including patient confidence, identity, and overall satisfaction.
3. How To Use Participation as an Intervention
This chapter demonstrates the how-to of using participation as intervention. Case studies show the use of participation with patients experiencing aphasia, motor speech impairment, memory impairment, and primary progressive aphasia.
4. Question and Answer Session
This section is a viewer-submitted question and answer session facilitated by Sarah Baar.