MARK YOUR CALENDAR!
10th Annual Eleanor M. Saffran Conference on Cognitive
Neuroscience and Rehabilitation of Communication Disorders:
September 18 – 19, 2015
Friday, September 18th: Translational Research in the Communication
Sciences: Challenges and Pathways to Solution
Morning Session: Challenges in translating basic research to clinical practice.
9:00 – 10:00 Conceptual and methodological challenges
John Whyte, M. D., Ph.D. Director of the Moss Rehabilitation Research Institute
Myrna Schwartz, Ph.D. Associate Director of the Moss Rehabilitation Research Institute
10:00 – 11:00 Implementation challenges: Practical constraints and solutions
Myrna Schwartz, Ph.D. Associate Director of the Moss Rehabilitation Research Institute
Ruth Fink, M.A., CCC-SLP Clinical Director of MossRehab Aphasia Center
11:00-11:15 Break
11:15 – 12:15 Research to practice: Educating future clinicians
Stacie Raymer, Ph.D. CCC-SLP Professor and Chair,
Department of Communication Disorders & Special Education
Old Dominion University, Virginia
12:15- 1:15
Lunch
Afternoon Session: Example interventions translated from basic science
1:15 – 2:15 Evidence-Based Language Interventions for School-Age Children with Language
Impairments
Sandra Gillam, Ph.D. CCC-SLP, Professor
Department of Communicative Disorders and Deaf Education
Emma Eccles Jones Early Childhood Education and Research Center
Utah State University, Utah
2:15-3:15
Interventions for sentence processing impairment in aphasia
Jane Marshall, Ph.D., Professor,
School of Health Sciences, Language and Communication Sciences
City University London, UK
3:15 – 3:30 Break
3:30 – 4:30
The use of transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) and transcranial
magnetic stimulation (TMS) in treatment for aphasia.
H. Branch Coslett, M. D.,
William N. Kelley Professor of Neurology
University of Pennsylvania
4:30 – 5:00
Discussion and Closing remarks.
5-7 Reception
Saturday, September 19, Translational Workshop
Implementation of theory- and evidenced-based treatments in the clinic.
This “Hands-on” workshop provides an opportunity for researchers and clinicians to work
together to identify ways to implement a treatment. The morning session will include an
overview of a treatment approaches developed by the researcher that will be shared with
clinicians in the afternoon. The afternoon breakout sessions (child language and adult language)
will include instructions and practice in carrying out treatment approaches and discussion among
researchers and clinicians of factors to consider when implementing treatments in the clinic or
school setting.
Tentative Schedule:
Morning: 9:00 Introductions
9:15 -9:45 Overview: Interventions for language disorders in children and
adolescents
9:45-10:15 Q & A session with clinicians and researchers.
Sandra Gillam, Ph.D. CCC-SLP, Professor
Ron Gillman, Ph.D. Director, Language, Education and Auditory Processing
(LEAP) Brain Imaging Laboratory. Raymond L. and Eloise H. Lillywhite Endowed
Chair of Speech-Language Pathology
Department of Communicative Disorders and Deaf Education
Emma Eccles Jones Early Childhood Education and Research Center
Utah State University
10:15- 10:45 Overview: Interventions for sentence processing and/or word
retrieval for adults with aphasia.
10:45- 11:15 Q & A session with clinicians and researchers.
Jane Marshall, Ph.D., Professor,
School of Health Sciences, Language and Communication Sciences
City University London
11:15-12:15 Brunch
12:15-3:00 Break-out sessions (15 minute break built in)
Child language treatment applications to school or clinical setting (Sandra
and Ron Gillam)
Adult language treatment applications to clinical setting. (Jane Marshall)
3:00 Breakout groups reconvene for general discussion.
3:30 Adjourn
ASHA and APA continuing education credit will be available (Day 1: 6 CEs and Day 2: 5 CEs).
Details forthcoming.