Annual ANCDS Scientific and Business Meeting

"Culturally Responsive Interventions in Neurogenic Communication Disorders"

Virtual, Multi-Date Event
Thursday, November 7, 2024
Wednesday, November 13, 2024
Tuesday, November 19, 2024

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Schedule*

All times listed in CST.

*All session, speaker, schedule, and CEU details are subject to change.

Session Details

Thursday, November 7, 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm

Lecture: Synergizing Community Input with Local Resources for Culturally-Grounded Quality-of-Life Strategies in Ethnosocially-Diverse Aphasia Contexts

Speaker:

Jose G. Centeno, PhD
Rutgers University

Abstract: Growing ethnoracial diversity in the country has resulted in ethnically and socially complex aphasia groups of individuals with different ethnoracial history (e.g. White, Hispanic, Black) and social identities (e.g., gender, religion, occupation).  This talk will discuss the demographic, epidemiological, and professional reasons that support community input to drive culturally-informed strategies for quality of life in ethnosocially mixed aphasia groups.

Objectives:
The learner will be able to:

1. Identify demographic, epidemiological, and professional factors pertinent to aphasia intervention in ethnosocially-diverse post-stroke rehabilitation contexts.
2. Explain the value of community engagement to facilitate culturally-aligned quality of life in persons with post-stroke aphasia in ethnosocially-diverse environments.
3. Discuss approaches to collect community input for culturally-aligned strategies that support quality of life in persons with post-stroke aphasia in ethnosocially-diverse environments.

Speaker Bio: Jose G. Centeno, PhD, is Professor in the Speech-Language Pathology Program in the Department of Rehabilitation and Movement Sciences in the School of Health Professions at Rutgers University, Newark, NJ.  He is a clinical researcher and certified practitioner in Speech-Language Pathology.  Dr. Centeno teaches, publishes, and conducts research in areas at the intersection of post-stroke aphasia, bilingualism, ethnogeriatrics, and health equity.  His present study, initially funded by the Health Equity and Advancing Social Justice Pilot Grants Program from the New Jersey Alliance for Clinical and Translational Science, examines the input from caregivers of Latinx adults with post-stroke aphasia to assess the barriers, needs, and facilitators in the daily living and care of Latinx aphasia groups in the country.  Dr. Centeno has participated in national and international professional committees in aphasia and multicultural issues.

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Centeno is a full-time salaried employee of Rutgers University, and receiving a $250 honorarium from the Academy of Neurologic Communication Disorders and Sciences (ANCDS) for this presentation.
Non-Financial: Dr. Centeno is a member of the Academy of Neurologic Communication Disorders and Sciences (ANCDS) and the American Speech Language Hearing Association (ASHA).

CEUs: Intermediate Level, 0.1 ASHA CEUs

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Thursday, November 7, 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm

Lecture: Elevating Dementia Care: Evidence-Based, Culturally Responsive, and Community-Engaged Strategies

Speaker:

Nidhi Mahendra, PhD, CCC-SLP
Duke University School of Medicine

Abstract: This presentation focuses on elevating dementia care by designing and delivering evidence-based and culturally responsive dementia care that engages diverse communities.  Designing excellent dementia care is a social imperative and can be brought to life through intentional design of clinical services and research that affirm the identity and dignity of persons with dementia, and their communities.  Further, high-quality, sustainable dementia care requires strategic cultivation of community capital, interprofessional partnerships, and preparation of future providers.

Objectives:
The learner will be able to:

1. Explain the rationale for implementing evidence-based practice (EBP) in dementia care, and for the continuous evolution of EBP to serve diverse clients and communities.
2. Identify specific strategies for cultivating community engagement and interprofessional partnerships to elevate dementia care.
3. Plan for how to combine the core tenets of evidence-based practice with culturally responsive practices for designing better dementia services.

Speaker Bio: Dr. Nidhi Mahendra is a Professor in the Department of Head and Neck Surgery and Communication Sciences, and Division Chief of Speech-Language Pathology at Duke University School of Medicine.  Her research expertise is in aging and dementia, aphasia, equity issues in speech-language pathology, and community health and wellness.  She has published and presented extensively on these topics.  Her research has been supported by the US Department of Health & Human Services, National Institutes of Aging, the Alzheimer’s Association, California Department of Healthcare Services, ASHA, and multiple private foundations.  She is an ASHA Fellow and recipient of ASHA's Certificate of Recognition for Significant Contributions in Multicultural Affairs, and the American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology Editor's award.  She is the incoming Vice President for Science and Research on the ASHA Board of Directors.

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Mahendra receives a salary from Duke University and San Jose State University.  She receives a consulting fee from US Department of Healthcare Services and National Institutes on Aging.  She receives grants from SJSU, Duke University, SAMHSA, and NIA.  Dr. Mahendra received an honorarium for this presentation from ANCDS.
Non-Financial: Dr. Mahendra is a member of ASHA, ASHA SIG 2, ASHA SIG 14, Aphasia Access, and ANCDS.  She serves on the Board of Directors for ASHA.  She is an editor for the Perspectives journal.  She previously served as a Board of Directors member and Chair of DEI Taskforce for Aphasia Access.  She currently serves as a member of the Honors Committee for ANCDS and was previously a member of the Dementia Best Practice Guidelines Committee for ANCDS.

CEUs: Intermediate Level, 0.1 ASHA CEUs

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Wednesday, November 13, 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm

Lecture: Core Outcomes for Primary Progressive Aphasia: What Do People Affected by PPA Worldwide Want from Speech-Language Interventions?

Speaker:

Anna Volkmer, PhD
University College London

Abstract: Studies exploring the effectiveness of interventions for Primary Progressive Aphasia (PPA) often focus on word retrieval.  However, there are other outcomes that are important to people with PPA.  This talk will summarize an international collaboration comprising: Stage 1 - systematic review; Stage 2 - Nominal Group Technique identifying the most important outcome constructs for people affected by PPA; Stage 3 – an e-Delphi study to identify a core outcome set.

Objectives:
The learner will be able to:

1. Describe the range of research on speech and language interventions and key outcomes used for PPA to date.
2. Identify what people with PPA and their families would like to change about their lives with PPA.
3. Demonstrate international view of the perspectives of people with PPA, their families and researchers on the core outcomes for speech and language interventions for PPA.

Speaker Bio: Dr. Anna Volkmer is an NIHR-funded senior research fellow at University College London.  She is also an honorary consultant speech and language therapist at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery in London where she works with the cognitive disorders service.  Dr. Volkmer's research has focused on the development of interventions to support people with Primary Progressive Aphasia and their families.  This has included work to develop a communication partner training program called Better Conversations with PPA (BCPPA).  The BCPPA pilot study was the first randomized controlled trial of a speech and language intervention in the field of PPA research.  Dr. Volkmer has also led an international collaboration to develop a core outcome set for PPA research.  She is currently collaborating with 20 countries worldwide to address this work.

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Volkmer has received grant funding from the National Institute for Health and Care Research.
Non-Financial: Dr. Volkmer does not have any non-financial disclosures to report.

CEUs: Intermediate Level, 0.1 ASHA CEUs

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Wednesday, November 13, 8:00 pm – 9:00 pm

Lecture: Innovative Work-Entry Communication and Executive Function Training Program for Inner-City Justice Impacted

Speakers: 

Sucheta Kamath, MS, CCC-SLP
ExQ®

Leila L. Hartley, PhD, CCC-SLP
Author, Cognitive-Communicative Abilities Following Brain Injury: A Functional Approach

Abstract: Poverty, systemic injustices, and encounters with the criminal justice system compound the struggles for those with addiction, untreated mental-emotional disturbances and impulsivity and dysregulated social behaviors.  Reentry for justice-impacted individuals hinges on mastering interpersonal communication, personal problem solving, and self-management skills that experts such as SLPs can provide.  Presenters will discuss GSHA Gives that delivered a free weekly work-entry communication and executive function training to inner-city men targeted to build skills through lecture-based discourse, strategy implementation, roleplaying, and self-reflection.  The presenters will also share their personal transformation stories and the bidirectionality of impact.

Objectives:
The learner will be able to:

1. Identify practical ways to determine needs assessment to create effective intervention that promotes work-entry and social adjustment.
2. Learn ways to promote the transfer and generalization of skills through self-reflection.
3. Discover the role of cultural humility when working with justice-affected communities.

Speaker Bios:

Sucheta Kamath is a Founder/CEO of ExQ®, a two-time TEDx speaker, an award-winning speech-language pathologist, a podcast host, and a Mindfulness Meditation teacher with a 14-year meditation practice.  As an EdTech entrepreneur and a creator of a patented digital curriculum, she’s on a mission to innovate personalized learning and empower all school-aged children to cultivate self-awareness, strategic thinking, and hone their Executive Function skills so that they can learn how to learn.  As a community leader Sucheta serves on many boards including ASHFoundation, GSHFoundation, Multifaith Initiative to End Mass Incarceration, and as a Hindu community leader she partners with interfaith communities to build bridges through spiritual and faith-based practices to allow racial healing.

Leila L. Hartley, PhD, CCC-SLP, received her Doctorate in communication sciences and neuropsychology from the University of Florida.  She has over 50 years of clinical experience with adult neurogenic communication disorders.  She is the author of Cognitive-Communicative Abilities Following Brain Injury: A Functional Approach and other publications in the areas of discourse abilities and functional approaches to rehabilitation after brain injury and aphasia rehabilitation in adolescents.  She has presented at many state, national, and international conferences.  She served as an adjunct faculty member at Georgia State University, teaching cognitive rehabilitation and neuroscience.  She retired in 2023 from a private practice specializing in cognitive and aphasia rehabilitation for adults in Atlanta.

Speaker Disclosures:
Sucheta Kamath, MS, CCC-SLP
Financial: Sucheta receives a consulting fee for ExQ® and has intellectual property rights for their content.  She received an honorarium from ANCDS for this presentation.
Non-Financial: Sucheta has no non-financial disclosures.

Leila L. Hartley, PhD, CCC-SLP
Financial: Dr. Hartley is receiving an honorarium from ANCDS for this presentation.
Non-Financial: Dr. Hartley has no non-financial disclosures.

CEUs: Intermediate Level, 0.1 ASHA CEUs

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Tuesday, November 19, 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm

Lecture: Cultural Adaptation of Cognitive Stimulation Therapy for a Group of Community-Dwelling Black Older Adults at Risk for Cognitive-Communicative Decline

Speaker: 

Whitney Anne Postman, PhD, CCC-SLP
DePaul University

Abstract: In this first-of-its-kind research protocol, a culturally and linguistically responsive adaptation of Cognitive Stimulation Therapy was implemented to treat cognitive-communicative decline in a cohort of independently-living Black older adults.  Group results revealed participants’ significant cognitive gains, enhanced mood, deeper insights into their functional deficits, and greater confidence in their communication of age-related health concerns.

Objectives:
The learner will be able to:

1. Discuss the adaptations and adjustments implemented by speech‐language pathologists to respect the specific cultural‐linguistic characteristics of a group of diverse elders with mild to moderate cognitive‐communicative impairments.
2. Describe culturally and linguistically sensitive approaches to group interventions for diverse elders with cognitive‐communicative impairments.
3. Delineate the speech‐language pathologist’s unique contributions to leadership of group therapy for diverse elders with mild to moderate cognitive‐communicative impairments.

Speaker Bio: At DePaul University, Dr. Postman is pursuing two major avenues of clinical research and training.  The first is a set of campus-community partnerships throughout Chicago to underserved aging populations.  In 2016, Dr. Postman launched an original adaptation of the standard Cognitive Stimulation Therapy intervention protocol with a series of groups of 6-12 community-dwelling Black older adults in the revered setting of the former historically Black Homer G. Phillips Hospital of The Ville neighborhood in North St. Louis, Missouri.  Her interventions incorporated culturally meaningful and responsive activities informed by input from participants and on-site staff, as well as training on mobile technology devices, resulting in a model worth replicating in Chicago for reducing health disparities that systematically affect Black older adults.  Dr. Postman’s second avenue of clinical research and training involves experimental investigations to recover motor-speech and linguistic capacities in cases of more rare neurogenic cognitive-communicative disorders such as pure apraxia of speech secondary to stroke; apraxia combined with distinct types of dysarthria in cases of fronto-temporal degenerative diseases such as Primary Progressive Aphasia, Cortico-Basal Degeneration, and Progressive Supranuclear Palsy; and flaccid dysarthria, dysphonia, and dysphagia in late-onset Myasthenia Gravis co-morbid with early-stage Alzheimer’s disease. These experimental investigations include applications of imaging techniques such as real-time ultrasound intra-oral visual feedback and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the brain, state-of-the-art tablet-based therapies, and telemedicine interventions.

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Postman receives a salary from DePaul University. She is receiving an honorarium from ANCDS for this presentation.
Non-Financial: Dr. Postman is a member of the National Black Association for Speech-Language and Hearing and is the editor of NBASLH’s Resound publication. She is also a member of ANCDS and serves on the ANCDS Diversity Writing Committee, “Evidence Based Practices Associated with the Clinical Management of Diverse Neurogenic Populations”.

CEUs: Intermediate Level, 0.1 ASHA CEUs

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Tuesday, November 19, 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm

Lecture: Sociocultural Factors: Implications for Child Language Service Provision

Speaker:

Danai Kasambira Fannin, PhD, CCC-SLP
North Carolina Central University

Abstract:  Despite universal screening, disparities persist, and there is limited data on digital health and underrepresented populations.  Researchers are developing tools for prompt, accurate identification and strategies to enhance caregiver action and service linkage.  Dr. Fannin will describe sociocultural factors to be considered for language delays and neurogenic conditions, and digital health tools used to understand developmental trajectories for late-talking children.

Objectives:
The learner will be able to:

1. Identify disparities in receipt of services for young children with autistic traits.
2. Describe cultural and linguistic differences in question asking, answering, and understanding.
3. Discuss research efforts to use technology to facilitate more culturally appropriate services.

Speaker Bio: Danai Kasambira Fannin PhD, CCC-SLP, is a licensed speech-language pathologist and associate professor in the Department of Communication Sciences & Disorders at North Carolina Central University (NCCU) and adjunct associate professor in the Department of Head & Neck Surgery & Communication Sciences at Duke University School of Medicine.  She has research interests in child language disorders and pragmatics, health equity across the lifespan, and social determinants of early identification and access to autism services for culturally and linguistically diverse children in underserved areas.  Dr. Fannin also promotes strategies to diversify the speech pathology and audiology workforce through enhanced recruitment and retention efforts.

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Fannin is receiving an honorarium from ANCDS for this presentation.  Dr. Fannin receives a salary from NCCU and a consulting fee from Duke ACE.   She also receives grant funding from the ASH Foundation and NIH.
Non-Financial: Dr. Fannin is a member of ASHA, Duke ACE, ASHA SIG 14, and Black Empowerment in Autism Network.  Dr. Fannin is an editor for the Perspectives journal for SIG 14.  She is a faculty collaborator at NCCU and an adjunct faculty member at Duke University Department of Head & Neck Surgery and Communication Sciences.  Personally, she has two autistic children.

CEUs: Intermediate Level, 0.1 ASHA CEUs

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Tuesday, November 19, 8:00 pm – 9:00 pm

Lecture: The Evidence Base for Neuro-Rehabilitation of Acquired and Degenerative Communication Disorders in Diverse Populations: What is Available, What is Needed, and Reasons Why

Speakers:

Gloriajean Wallace, PhD, CCC-SLP, BC-ANCDS
Gerald Imaezue, PhD
Anthony Pak-Hin Kong, PhD, F-ASHA
Taryn Malcolm, PhD, CCC-SLP
Whitney Postman, PhD, CCC-SLP
LaToya Roberts, MS, CCC-SLP
Ivan Portillo, MS

Abstract: This presentation will discuss evidence-based practice (EBP), with a focus on available research that supports the neurorehabilitation care of people with neurogenic disorders, including the increasingly large number of people from culturally and linguistically diverse communities.  Presenters will provide the audience with preliminary findings of the ANCDS Diversity Writing group.  Presenters will then provide the audience with thoughts about topics related to neurorehabilitation care of people from diverse communities, including topics relating to academic and clinical training, professional training, current practices, and conversation focused on cultural and linguistic considerations including the use of interpreters and translators.  The presentation will pinnacle with the presentation of an interesting neurogenics case that will help to highlight key points raised during the presentation.  The presentation will close by providing flexible time for audience members to dialogue about EBP and future research that is needed to promote personalized and equitable neurorehabilitation care for all.

Objectives:
The learner will be able to:

1. Identify the three basic components involved with evidence-based practice.
2. Discuss the adequacy of neurorehabilitation assessment and treatment published research to guide best clinical practices for people from both diverse and mainstream communities who have neurogenic communication and swallowing disorders.
3. Outline neurorehabilitation research needed to support equitable care for all cases (those from diverse communities and those from mainstream communities).

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: None of the presenters have any financial disclosures to report.
Non-Financial: Dr. Wallace is the editor of a DEI book published by Plural Publishing this fall.  Drs. Postman, Imaezue, and Pak-Hin Kong have contributed captures to the book.  No other presenters have any non-financial disclosures to report.

CEUs: Intermediate Level, 0.1 ASHA CEUs

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 ASHA CEUs

Live Event Attendees:

Both partial and full credit are available for the live meeting.  This course may fulfill ASHA's DEI requirement for CEUs.  Attendance will be verified.

The program evaluation / request for ASHA CEUs must be submitted by Tuesday, November 26, 2024 at 11:59 PM (CST).

Session Recordings:

The recorded version of the Annual Meeting will be available in early 2025.  The recorded version will require learners to view all 7 presentations for a fixed total of 0.7 ASHA CEUs; variable credit will not be available for the recorded version.  Learners who attended any or all of the live sessions will NOT be permitted to receive any ASHA CEUs for the recorded sessions.

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Registration*

• ANCDS Members: $65
• Non-Members**: $90
• ANCDS Student Members: $20
• Student Non-Members**: $25

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*Registration includes access to all educational sessions and corresponding CEUs across the three dates, the REDI Committee Discussion, and the Business Meeting & Honors session.

**Non-Members: Apply for membership today and receive the discounted member rate! Complete the New Member Application to receive the discount and get access to all the ANCDS member benefits!

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Sponsorship

Our mission is to offer an affordable educational and scientific meeting for anyone with a clinical and/or research interest in neurologic communication disorders.  To accomplish this goal, we are seeking sponsorships from ANCDS members, interested individuals, and companies that provide goods and/or services associated with the clinical management of neurologic communication impairments.

We ask you to consider partnering with ANCDS to help provide relevant continuing education at a reasonable price and to advance the professional goals of our members.  Your sponsorship is greatly appreciated and will be recognized as noted below.  There are no limits to the number of sponsors at each level.

• Gold - $1,500
• Silver - $1,000
• Bronze - $500

Become a Sponsor

*ANCDS does not endorse specific companies or products. 

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