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Date: Saturday, April 12, 2008 Course No.: 0804 Level: Beginning Times: 9:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Fee: $115 (pay only $90 when pre-registered by March 28th) Title: "Language Applications: What Does Visual Language Really Sound Like?" (See what I hear) Instructor: Ellyn Lucas Arwood, Ed.D., CCC-SLP Description: Even though many people understand that visual languages like ASL have different properties than auditory languages like English, most educators continue to talk using English as an auditory form of communication. The purpose of this class is to provide the participants with lots of visual language practice using different language structure, vocabulary, and even quantity of language. Participants also will be able to see the use of oral English as a visual language by examining transcripts of what visual oral English looks like. Keywords: oral language, auditory languages, visual languages, language intervention, using oral language at home, using oral language in the classroom Learner Outcomes: Participants should be able to: 1. Demonstrate how to change their oral English from auditory language properties to visual language properties so as to match with children's learning needs 2. Demonstrate how to change an auditory language sentence into visual language
After 16 years located in the Burnside Trolley Building of Northeast Portland, the APRICOT Clinic has moved to the southwest metro area. Our new location features more space and ample parking.
The APRICOT Clinic staff under the guidance of Mabel Brown, MA, continues to offer the excellent learning, language, and behavior therapy and evaluations. We continue to specialize in working with individuals who are affected by neurogenic disabilities such as Autism Spectrum Disorders, AD/HD, and syndromes. Additional education about language, learning, and the brain through consultations, workshops, in-services, and products may be purchased by contacting Mabel at the new clinic.
General information about the workshops:
REGISTRATION PROCESS:
1. Click here to go to a separate web page that you can print out using the "FILE / PRINT" feature on your web browser. Your printer will print out a brief form which can be mailed to APRICOT, Inc. If you have any technical difficulty printing a copy of the sign-up form, please make some simple notes about the information required on the form when you see it displayed as a web page. Then reconstruct the form on a blank piece of paper and fill in the sign-up information which will be needed by APRICOT, Inc. to process your registration request.
2. Enclose a check, money order or *purchase order* payable to APRICOT, Inc.
3. Send form and payment to: APRICOT, Inc., P.O. Box 230138, Tigard, OR, 97281-0138
4. Registration questions? Telephone: 503-670-1740
*Participants using purchase orders: When registering less than two weeks before the start of class, please telephone first to find out the best way to reserve your place in the class. Please have your purchase order number ready for the business manager.
*Airline Tickets: Please telephone our office before purchasing airline tickets, since classes are canceled when there is insufficient enrollment.
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1. Classes are held in the Portland Metropolitan area. 2. Lecture times are individually posted for each course. 3. Registration is 30 minutes prior to the posted lecture time. 4. Certificates of attendance are provided. 5. Optional ASHA Continuing Education Units may be available for an additional fee ($12.50). Register and pay for CEUs on the first day of class. 6. Optional WACECH (Washington Continuing Education Clock Hours) may be available for an additional fee of $2 per clock hour. Register and pay for CEUs on the first day of class. 7. Cancellations received two weeks prior to class will receive a full refund minus a $10 per person processing charge. 8. Enrollment is determined on a first-come, first-serve basis. If minimum enrollment is not met, two weeks prior to class date, class will be cancelled and your fee(s) will be refunded. Preregistration is necessary for classes to make. 9. Your cancelled check is your acknowledgment. 10. Confirmation letters are sent out one week prior to the class start date.
ASHA Continuing Education Registry .Statement of Approval APRICOT, Inc. is approved by the Continuing Education Board of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) to provide continuing education activities in speech-language pathology and audiology. About each activity: 1. Strategies for Children on the Spectrum, is offered for .5 CEUs (Intermediate level, Professional area). 2. Language is Learning: The Metacognitive Basis to Symbolization and Semantic Memory, is offered for 1.0 CEUs (Advanced level, Professional area). 3. Learning More Than One Language: The Literacy of Cognitive Language, is offered for .5 CEUs (Intermediate level, Professional area). 4. Brain-Based Language: Neurosemantics, is offered for 1.0 CEUs (Advanced level, Professional area). 5. Language Applications: What Does Visual Language Really Sound Like?, is offered for .5 CEUs (Beginning level, Professional area). ASHA CE Provider approval does not imply endorsement of course content, specific products, or clinical procedures.
An annual ASHA CE Registry fee is required to register ASHA CEUs. ASHA CE Registry fees are paid by the participant directly to the ASHA National Office. The annual ASHA CE Registry fee allows registration of an unlimited number of ASHA CEUs for the calendar year. Contact the ASHA CE staff at 800-498-2071, ext. 4219 for CE Registry fee subscription information.
Please note that a $3 per class fee is charged by APRICOT, Inc. to process CEU materials. ASHA does not charge a per class fee--only the annual fee.
Instructional Personnel
Ellyn Arwood, Ed.D., CCC-SLP, is a full professor at the University of Portland in Portland, Oregon and has a national and international reputation for scholarship in the areas of language, cognition, learning, development and special needs. During the past 36 years Dr. Arwood has been on faculty at a number of universities teaching and providing hands-on clinical experiences with all populations of communicatively impaired children and adults. She is the author of four textbooks and one monograph about the concept of pragmaticism applied to communication disorders, learning, and using language to learn.
Did you know that your school district can save 10% on registration fees? When 10 or more people attend the same class, and are registered together as a group on one purchase order, the total amount due is reduced by 10%.
Did you know that private presentations for individual schools can be arranged through APRICOT, Inc.? Telephone 503-670-1740 for more information.
DATA REQUESTS:
It has come to our attention that many of you have been collecting data on the progress of your students. Some of this data is in anecdotal form and some is in a descriptive observational form. Other data have been counted, charted, graphed, etc. If you have collected some student data that showcase what you do and you would like to share your data with other professionals, Dr. Arwood is willing to compile the data and disseminate it.
The purpose of such dissemination is to provide a research base for using language to change behavior both academically and socially.
If you have questions about sharing your data please e-mail us at: APRICOT@spiritone.com
If you want to send your data directly to us, please mail it to:
APRICOT, Inc. P.O. Box 230138, Tigard, OR, 97281-0138