The Peoria Area Speech-Language Hearing Association (PASHA) meets five times each fiscal year for general meetings. Continuing education programs are planned for four of the five meetings offering members and non-members opportunities for professional development. These programs feature speakers with expertise in areas important to the fields of speech-language pathology and audiology.   Continuing Education Units (CEUs) are offered free of charge to PASHA members.  Non-members who wish to receive CEUs are asked to pay a fee.

Coming Events

PEORIA AREA SPEECH-LANGUAGE-HEARING ASSOCIATION  

Presents  

Phonological Reading Approach for Cognitively Impaired Adolescents

When:                   Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Location:             Easter Seals/UCP Community Room

( 507 E. Armstrong Ave. , Peoria , IL )

Agenda:               5:30-6:00 pm       Executive Committee Meeting

                             6:00-6:30 pm       General Meeting  

·         All PASHA members are encouraged to attend the general business meeting.  Members are entitled to hear committee reports, participate in discussion, and vote on matters of business conducted by the association.

6:30-8:00 pm       Program

·         Title:  Phonological Reading Approach for Cognitively Impaired Adolescents

·         Description:  There is little research and information to guide intervention for cognitively impaired students.  Teaching reading is often left to chance or fragmented approaches.  The current study used phonological awareness and visual recognition to facilitate reading decoding and encoding.  The intervention techniques and results of this approach will be shared.

·         Objectives:  At the conclusion of this session, participants will:

o   Review reading programs/approaches for cognitively impaired students.

o   Understand the basis of and intervention techniques associated with a phonological/orthographic approach to teach base level reading skills.

o    Review the effectiveness of phonological/orthographic pairing to aid reading decoding and encoding with cognitively impaired adolescents.

·         Speaker:  Peggy Modglin

Peggy Modglin is also a speech-language pathologist at Normal West High School in Normal , IL . She has worked in the school and medical settings for 17 years. Peggy co-taught the basic reading class for the cognitively impaired students at NCWHS with a LBS I teacher. She has presented at ISHA regarding play-based assessments and has been active with ISHA and CISHA.

8:00-8:30 pm       Question and Answer