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Training Calendar - 2009

CARM Open Days

Upcoming Seminar

Topic: Augmentative & Alternative Communication in Health Care
Settings: Supporting Patients from Intensive Care Units (ICU)
into the Community

Presenter: Melanie Fried-Oken, Ph.D., CCC-SLP

Dates: 2 Day Seminar - 15th & 16th October 2009
Venue: Darebin Arts Centre – Melbourne
Pre-seminar Research Dinner: 14th October 2009

Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) has become an integral part of
medical speech-language pathology, yet many clinicians are not familiar with AAC
assessment and intervention principles. Services differ depending on whether patients
present with communication needs in the ICU, inpatient hospital ward, outpatient
rehabilitation clinic, or home and community settings.

In this seminar, we will discuss the multi-modal communication process, and identify
strategies, as well as low-tech and high-tech solutions for each medical and consequent
community setting. Principles of assessment and intervention that have been determined
through expert practice will be presented through case studies using videos and clinical
reports.

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