ON-SITE TRAINING
The Aphasia Institute offers training sessions for health care professionals on how to work with clients with aphasia and to help them overcome communication barriers. Health care professionals will be shown how to apply training techniques to clinical situations such as assessment, counselling, group therapy and working with clients and their communication partners.
Resources, materials and manuals are provided in many of the workshops.
Full Training*
Two-day and three-day core training workshops
Half-day and full-day workshops
2020 Professional Training Calendar
*Attendance to B4 and D3 workshops are restricted to Speech-Language Pathologists
Aphasia Institute 2019 Instructor Disclosures
Some training feedback: Testimonials
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Your Life Workshop for Recreationists & Activationists
Date: Wednesday December 11
Time: 9:00am – 4:00pm
Location: Aphasia Institute, 73 Scarsdale Rd. Toronto
Cost: $340 (includes Tool Kit) or $240 if you already own a Tool Kit
Course Description
This one day workshop will teach you skills to work with clients with communication challenges to co-construct their own personal narratives/stories – their past, present and future. You’ll learn how to use the Your Life Tool Kit to carry out a successful client story-telling program.
ON-LINE – SPEAKER SERIES
An online series distinguished by its focus on aphasia and real-life participation. The webinars provide an opportunity for practicing clinicians to hear from a prestigious group of international aphasia researchers.
Please refer to the course description for instructional level and ASHA CEUs
Course Title: Working on Storytelling in Aphasia – what are the goals?
Course Code: G8
Presenter: Lucy Dipper, Ph.D.
Date/Time: ARCHIVE: Dec. 3 to 16 (Originally presented Dec. 2)
This webinar is offered for 0.1 ASHA CEUs (Various level; Professional area)
Course Description
Key stakeholders in the remediation of aphasia have identified addressing discourse as important, and storytelling is one of the main everyday forms of discourse. This webinar provides an update on Linguistic Underpinnings of Narrative in Aphasia (LUNA), a storytelling intervention being developed in the U.K. in collaboration with clinicians and people living with aphasia, beginning with their goals in mind.
Meet the Presenter
Lucy Dipper is a Clinical Linguist at City, University of London. Her research focuses on the best ways to assess and remediate language in aphasia; in particular, the kinds of language needed for communication in everyday life, including personal storytelling. Lucy’s research projects explore the range of ways people communicate ideas, including the production of verbs, sentences, gesture, and discourse.
Disclosures:
Financial: Lucy Dipper is a salaried employee of City, University of London and receives a grant from The Stroke Association, UK. Lucy will receive an honorarium for this webinar presentation.
Non-Financial: Lucy Dipper has no non-financial relationships to disclose
FEES
$40.00CAD or $50.00CAD to receive ASHA CEUs
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Your registration will be confirmed by email
You will receive a webinar link the morning of each webinar
If your schedule does not permit attending a live webinar, you will receive a link to view the archived webinar for two weeks after each live presentation
If you’re not currently on our email distribution list but would like to opt-in to receive updates, please contact mbaldwin@aphasia.ca
TAKING THE SHOW ON THE ROAD
We welcome opportunities to discuss taking our Supported Conversation for Adults with Aphasia (SCA™) workshops to you. We will review your particular learning objectives and timeline, suggest the workshops that fit best and then provide a quote that will include requirements and costs to make this happen.
To discuss off-site training options, contact Marisca Baldwin, Education and Learning Coordinator at 416-226-3636, ext. 23 or training@aphasia.ca
ON-LINE SELF-DIRECTED LEARNING
An introductory learning module to help you understand the basics of facilitating Supported Conversation for Adults with Aphasia (SCATM ).
Click here to go to the module.
Click here for an overview about Communicative Access and SCATM :
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