2018 National Conference Adelaide

Private practice Workshop and Masterclass presentations and Masterclass presentations

Sunday 27 May

9.30am – 1.00pm (including Morning tea) SW1 –What’s in it for me?Working together to realise the benefits and break down the stereotypes of employment in private practice Nichola Harris 1 , Trish Johnson 1 , Daniel Gibbs 2 , Bernadette Dutton 3 , Anne Huang 4,5 , Jenny Baker 6 , Annique Lynch 6 1Speech Pathology Australia, Melbourne, VIC, Australia. 2Clinic Mastery, Adelaide, SA, Australia. 3Loqui Speech Pathology, Stafford, QLD, Australia. 4Private Practice, Brisbane, QLD, Australia. 5Griffiths University, Brisbane, QLD, Australia, 6Fremantle Speech Pathology Services, Perth, WA, Australia. Supervising and maintaining staff in a small business is increasingly complex. The job market and employment options for speech pathologists are also challenging. This workshop will consist of a panel of speech pathologists across all sectors with a wide range of experience and practice contexts and professionals with experience working in the small business sector. Participants will have the opportunity to discuss and share: • Current employment contexts and expectations • Having speech pathologists with a range of experience in your practice: benefits and barriers from all perspectives • How to make the best use of all levels of experience • Current best practice scenarios • Characteristics of a good employer/employee • How sole providers can grow their business and employ another speech pathologist • Systems and processes - are these in place? • Aspirations for employment practices in the future. These topics will be examined in the context of the changing work environment, funding streams, client expectations, productivity and responsibilities of business owners. Discussions will cover the spectrum of the private practice workforce including practice owners of both small and large businesses together with sole providers and employees. There will be presentations, opportunities to raise topics for discussion, breakout sessions, brainstorming solutions and development of a tailored action plan. Attendance number: 100 • Identification of key issues • How to overcome difficulties: ◦◦ What support mechanisms work? ◦◦ What support do employees and employers need?

2.00pm – 5.30pm (including Afternoon tea) SM2 – Assessing narrative abilities in school-age children: Comparing norm referenced and progress monitoring measures Dr Ron Gillam, PhD In this masterclass Ron will use the Test of Narrative Language – 2nd Edition as an example of test construction, test reliability, and test validity in the context of assessing narrative comprehension and production. Participants will examine the use of test scores for diagnostic decision-making, and the use of item analyses techniques for informing an understanding of children’s narrative deficiencies. Participants will then discuss an approach to progress monitoring called Monitoring Indicators of Scholarly Language (MISL). Ron will explain how the MISL was constructed and will review its reliability and validity as a progress monitoring tool. Then, participants will practice scoring the MISL and will discuss how MISL scores can be used to inform intervention decisions and practices. Learning objectives for the masterclass: After this session, participants will be able to: • Summarise key issues in measuring narrative comprehension and narrative production instruments • Explain how the concepts of test reliability and test validity differ for norm-referenced and progress monitoring instruments • Describe how best to use the scores from a norm-referenced test of narration • Score narratives using the MISL and make clinical decisions based on those scores.

Prerequisites for registrants / assumed knowledge or skill base when attending the masterclass: To profit from this masterclass, participants should have a general understanding of: • Psychometrics • Story grammar (macrostructure) propositions • Syntactic development (especially complex syntactic structures). Disclosure: Ron Gillam is a co-author of The Test of Narrative Language – 2nd Edition (TNL-2), which will be described in this presentation. Attendence number = 100

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