2021 CLINICAL APHASIOLOGY CONFERENCE



2021 CLINICAL APHASIOLOGY CONFERENCE Name: _______________________________SELF-ASSESSMENT OF LEARNING NOTE: Please rate each session attended. To receive CEUs for poster sessions, at least 6 posters must be visited during a session & the associated learning objectives should be checked on this form.Please use the scale to respond to each question. Write your response in front of each item.DISAGREE NEUTRAL AGREE 1 2 3 4 5As a result of participating in the Clinical Aphasiology Conference I am able to:Tuesday, May 18, 2021Platform Session 1: NIDCD Research Symposium in Clinical Aphasiology: Primary progressive aphasia (Schaffer et al., Berstis et al., Europa et al.)______Describe rationale and components of a novel speech-language/counseling intervention for a participant with PPA. ______Identify measures of fluency, grammar, and informativeness that are sensitive to treatment in nonfluent / agrammatic PPA.______Describe potential neuroimaging biomarkers for predicting response to Script Training in nonfluent/agrammatic variant PPA.Poster Session 1: NIDCD Fellows______1 Understand measurement issues that arise in the development of core lexicon measures; Identify the most appropriate core lexicon list that can be applied to different discourse elicitation tasks______2Describe the usability and reliability of using core lexicon analysis to study discourse production in persons with aphasia.______3Describe the nature and variability of deficits in memory for conversation following TBI, as well as functional consequences.______4Describe how to analyze conversation samples for complete utterances and discuss characteristics of participants who increased use of complete utterances following conversation-based group treatment.______5Explain how cumulative priming captures long-term implicit syntactic learning during structural priming.______6Explain how the three variants of PPA align to the dual stream model of speech processing and production.______7Identify one type of knowledge that may offset language impairments; describe how this bolsters verb naming in aphasia.______8Describe relationships between assessments of cognitive function and several treatment outcomes after SFA for anomia______9Describe neurophysiological responses to linguistic and musical syntactic violations in agrammatic aphasia______10 Identify speed-accuracy tradeoffs in treatment performance based on replication and extension of the diffusion model. Platform Session 2: NIDCD Research Symposium in Clinical Aphasiology: Neuroplasticity and treatment in aphasia; telehealth treatment of TBI (Schneck & Wilson, Kristinsson et al., Rietdijk et al.)______Describe potential mechanisms of neuroplasticity in post-stroke aphasia and support by existing literature. ______Describe and discuss the effects and implications of different treatment approaches in aphasia.______Describe clinical trial findings relating to TBIconneCT, a social communication skills program for people with TBI and their communication partners delivered in-person or via telehealthNIDCD Research Symposium in Clinical Aphasiology Keynote Address, Questions, and Discussion: Learning and re-learning in aphasia (Copland, Wilson) ______Describe at least two empirical or theoretical relationships between new word learning and naming treatment in aphasia. Wednesday, May 19, 2021CAC Invited Keynote Address, Response and Discussion: On the causal wars (Reiss, Elman, Fridriksson)______ Define at least one strength and one potential weakness of randomized controlled trial research designs.Platform Session 3: Aphasia Treatment (Boyle et al., Rose et al., Evans et al., Bravier et al.)______Describe how conversation-based group treatment influences the informativeness of structured discourse production.______Identify the elements of treatment fidelity measurement and reporting, and describe the fidelity results of COMPARE RCT.______Describe speed-accuracy tradeoffs and explain their potential effects on aphasia rehabilitation. ______Describe the rationale for providing excitatory-primed inhibitory repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) to right hemisphere pars triangularis (RH PTr) for aphasia.Poster Session 2______1Describe the development of a questionnaire to identify barriers to communication in the hospital setting______2Discuss the effects of impaired inter-sentential cohesion and sentence processing on the story grammar of narratives in TBI______3Explain implicit priming and benefits in anomia treatment, the work to date in this area and potential future directions.______4Identify three factors that impact executive function and spoken discourse deficits in aphasia______5Discuss relationship between heart rate variability, aphasia severity, and attention, as measured by CPT______6List three components of phonological structures in memory and response generalization in persons with aphasia.______7 Describe three discourse measures and their sensitivity to effects of conversation treatment for people with aphasia.______8Explain how a model-based scoring system for picture naming can improve sensitivity of performance improvement. ______9Describe how different types of paraphasias interact with naming accuracy on commonly used confrontation naming tests.______10 Outline differences in type and frequency of gesture usage in persons with aphasia during discourse tasks.______11 Describe the role of gesture + speech and interactions and tradeoffs in tasks where visibility is manipulated______12 Describe how negative emotion has the potential to affect confrontational naming performance in aphasia.______13 Describe measurement of practice effects and modifiability and findings for each of these measures. ______14 State three examples of how authors describe the concept of motivation in reporting aphasia rehabilitation studies.______15 List methodological challenges & opportunities with machine learning in research and automated scoring of the PNT.______16 Increase understanding of using an aphasia-friendly menu tool in a hospital setting and the barriers and facilitators to its implementation and ongoing sustainability. ______17 Describe the structure of the new aphasia battery – the Russian Aphasia Test: reliability, validity, sensitivity, specificity______18 Describe the effects of digital highlighting and voice rate on comprehension when utilizing text-to-speech technology. Thursday, May 20, 2021Round Table Discussion – Session 1 ______A. Describe dimensions contributing to fluency, and discuss why the assessment of fluency is often unreliable.______B. Describe conditions and methodologies for post-treatment maintenance and generalization of therapeutic gains in language interventions for primary progressive aphasia (PPA) ______C. Discuss the of effects of exercise on cognition and language, and brainstorm future research and clinical practices______D. Describe the knowledge-to-action process and how to maximising discourse intervention research in clinical practice. ______E. Describe (1) the current state of the science regarding outcome measurement in mind-body research in aphasia and (2) how a theoretical model and stakeholder feedback can inform the next steps.Round Table Discussion – Session 2 ______A. Describe dimensions contributing to fluency, and discuss why the assessment of fluency is often unreliable.______B. Describe conditions and methodologies for post-treatment maintenance and generalization of therapeutic gains in language interventions for primary progressive aphasia (PPA) ______C. Discuss the of effects of exercise on cognition and language, and brainstorm future research and clinical practices______D. Describe the knowledge-to-action process and how to maximising discourse intervention research in clinical practice ______E. Describe (1) the current state of the science regarding outcome measurement in mind-body research in aphasia and (2) how a theoretical model and stakeholder feedback can inform the next steps.Platform Session 4: Naming: Prediction of treatment response and machine classification of paraphasias (Sebastian et al., Breining et al., McKinney-Bock et al.)______Describe how baseline functional connectivity predicts cerebellar tDCS treatment response. ______Describe how variability of naming responses before treatment relates to generalization of treatment effects. ______List three components of machine learning models as applied to confrontation naming test scoringPlatform Session 5: Bilingual Aphasia (Sandberg et al., Grasso et al., Grey)______Describe ways to increase success during anomia therapy in monolingual and bilingual persons with aphasia.______Identify the effects of lexical retrieval treatment administered to bilinguals with progressive anomia.______Explain the interrelationship between language control, semantic control and cognitive control in bilingual aphasia.Poster Session 3______1Describe modified edit distance as an outcome measure for disordered productions in treatment of AOS.______2Describe how neuroplasticity in aphasia is impacted by task performance, contrast validity, and multiple comparisons______3Define the roles of the stakeholder groups involved in the assessment and treatment of post-stroke aphasia in Ghana. ______4Describe relationship between verbal memory and audience design skills in individuals with Alzheimer’s dementia and HC.______5List benefits of group interaction and aphasia center involvement and outline a measures that can be used in evaluations.______6Identify two methods to incorporate Animal Assisted Therapy in complex discourse resource use______7Describe abstract and lexically mediated structural priming and how these mechanisms of priming occur in healthy aging. ______8Describe behavioral and neurophysiological effects of concurrent object and action word treatment in individuals with PPA.______9Discuss how attentional priming can facilitate sentence planning and production processes in aphasia______10 Describe the decision-making capacity assessment process support techniques for the PWA that can be used by SLPs______11 List the effects of a novel treatment, Motor-Priming Language Treatment, on SVO sentence production.______12 Explain how eye-tracking can be used to identify left-unilateral spatial neglect after a right hemisphere stroke.______13 Describe the type and number of errors identified during an interpreter-mediated aphasia assessment.______14 Identify trends in data collection, analysis, reporting of spoken discourse, areas of improvement, and future directions ______15 Describe discourse performance in adults with mTBI, orthopedic injury, mod-severe TBI, and healthy controls.______16 Explain how to balance testing burden and precision when quantifying anomia severity.______17 Describe discourse of right hemisphere stroke and measures that correlate to analysis of the Modern Cookie Theft picture.______18 List sentence processing strategies of non-canonical sentences in people with mild aphasia, and methods for eye-tracking Round Table Discussion – Session 3 ______A. Describe at least two advantages and two disadvantages of using PRISMA and AMSTAR 2 to examine systematic reviews.______B. Describe elements of effective and efficient training programs for graduate students and/or novice clinicians new to ICAPs ______C. Describe international research initiatives to improve aphasia research design, conduct and reporting.______D. Describe the psychosocial outcomes of individuals with mild aphasia, including persons who are not aphasic by WAB scores ______E. List three components of a model of cognitive communication and recent discourse analysis findings ______F. Describe frameworks, terminology, evidence, and an emerging research agenda of dose and intensity in aphasia treatment ______G. Summarize a systematic review of treatment for PPA/PPAOS. Discuss clinical practice and future priorities for research.Round Table Discussion – Session 4______A. Describe at least two advantages and two disadvantages of using PRISMA and AMSTAR 2 to examine systematic reviews.______B. Describe elements of effective and efficient training programs for graduate students and/or novice clinicians new to ICAPs ______C. Describe international research initiatives to improve aphasia research design, conduct and reporting.______D. Describe the psychosocial outcomes of individuals with mild aphasia, including persons who are not aphasic by WAB scores ______E. List three components of a model of cognitive communication and recent discourse analysis findings ______F. Describe frameworks, terminology, evidence, and an emerging research agenda of dose and intensity in aphasia treatment ______G. Summarize a systematic review of treatment for PPA/PPAOS. Discuss clinical practice and future priorities for research.Friday, May 21, 2021Special Platform Session (Holland) ______Discuss parallels between life with aphasia and life during the pandemic with respect to social isolation, and their potential influence on clinical and research practice.Poster Session 4______1Explain the Language Environment Analysis as a tool to analyze and quantify contextual language fluent aphasia.______2Describe the effect of background talkers on the ability of persons with aphasia to successfully understand target speech.______3Describe how word-picture verification task performance relates to single-word language comprehension and production ______4Explain the role of oral repetition of a prime sentence in both immediate and longer-term structural priming______5List and describe various subjective experiences associated with anomia, as reported directly by individuals with aphasia.______6Describe how altering processing load and semantic complexity impact accuracy on a category judgement task ______8Describe the agreement between people with aphasia and caregiver’s proxy rating on perceived stress and mutuality______9Explain the linguistic and neural mechanisms underlying treatment-induced improved sentence processing in PPA ______10 Describe texting behaviors in a sample of participants with chronic aphasia______11 Identify general trends in auditory comprehension treatments methods and outcomes for people with aphasia. ______12 List current evidence for active ingredients in semantic feature analysis treatment for aphasia______13 Explain how stroke recurrence may/may not influence spoken language in acute right and left hemisphere stroke. ______14 Describe the psychosocial difficulties of living with aphasia and Solution Focused Brief Therapy delivered by SLTs______15 Explain category-selective semantic deficit (CSSD) for living things in svPPA using psycholinguistic variables______16 Describe the development, rationale, methods and outcomes of a novel, post-professional training program in an ICAP.______17 Describe feasibility parameters of a peer-befriending, randomised controlled trial for people with aphasia.______18 Describe a system for capturing treatment-induced changes conveyed by errors on confrontation naming tasks in PPAPlatform Session 6: Aprosodia and non-language cognitive-communication impairments (Blake et al., Sheppard et al., Myers et al., DeMarco et al.)______Describe the patterns of right- versus left-hemisphere lateralization of aprosodia______Describe the stages, deficit profiles, and neural correlates of emotional prosody recognition in right-hemisphere disorder______Explain how discourse assessment following mild TBI may be influenced by post-traumatic stress disorder.______Describe brain regions where damage is associated with non-linguistic cognitive deficits in chronic left-hemisphere stroke.Platform Session 7: Functional brain imaging of language behavior in aphasia (Barbieri et al., Dial et al., Meier et al.)______Explain the neural mechanisms underlying recovery of naturalistic language comprehension in chronic aphasia______Describe cortical oscillations of speech processing in PPA and their potential role in observed comprehension deficits______Identify 3 aspects of picture description abilities and resting state functional connectivity in left vs right hemisphere stroke. ................
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