2019 KSHA Convention
February 20-23, 2019
Lexington, Kentucky
Call for Posters Now Being Accepted
- Professional Presentations – EXPIRED.
- Poster Submissions – Deadline to submit a poster is February 1, 2019.
(Note: Poster submissions received by January 10, 2019 will be listed in the on-site program.)
Join Us In Lexington
‘EmPOWERment’ is defined as the process of becoming stronger and more confident, especially in controlling one’s life and claiming one’s rights.” The 2019 Kentucky Speech-Language-Hearing Association Convention is geared towards doing just that. We restructured the committee this year to make KSHA members stronger and more confident by offering a broader and deeper variety of topics to address your needs. Continuing education is a mandatory requirement for maintaining licensure, but our committee wanted courses offered to reflect what the members wanted and valued in respect to the current climates in speech pathology and audiology. Thus, our committee surveyed our members and received more than 150 responses. We sincerely thank you for your feedback and are hopeful the Convention agenda meets your needs and emPOWERs you! It is our goal for you to leave this year’s Convention feeling emPOWERed and motivated to make a difference in your individual career and the people you reach with your amazing expertise. Convention will begin as usual on Wednesday with a focus on ethics and students. Attendees will enjoy the keynote speaker, posters, silent auction and Praxis competition on Thursday, Awards Luncheon on Friday and wind down the weekend with Saturday’s sessions featuring a new track dedicated to higher education and clinical supervision.
Former American Idol contestant Micah Johnson will emPOWER attendees as our keynote speaker. Following a tonsillectomy, which caused neurological damage, Micah was told his speech would never be the same again, but his drive to improve with speech therapy proved the doctors wrong. This will be a keynote you won’t want to miss.
Highlighted audiology sessions include hot topics such as early hearing detection and intervention, congenital cytomegalovirus, tinnitus, dementia and hearing loss, pediatric cochlear implants, pediatric amplification and augmentative communication and hearing loss. Speech-language pathologists (SLPs) will have a variety of sessions to attend with topics on fiberoptic endoscopic evaluation of swallowing, apraxia, fluency, altered and artificial airways, augmentative and alternative communication, social media and the SLP, behavior management, adults with complex communication disorders, autism and the list goes on!
Our luncheon speakers, Jason and Angela McWhorter, will share their incredible story and journey of their son Liam who was born with septo-optic dysplasia and has overcome various obstacles to be able to effectively communicate. Liam is an amazing tribute to the work that both audiologists and speech-language pathologists do and we are excited to have them share their success story at the Convention.
We are extremely excited for this year’s Convention and are looking forward to bringing together a group of presenters that emPOWER us all.
Your emPOWERed Chairs,
Tommy Evans and Leigh Anne Roden-Carrier
Convention Co-Directors
Highlighted Presenters
Kelly Baroch, AuD, is a clinical audiologist in the Division of Audiology at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. Dr. Baroch coordinates the inpatient audiology program and the infant hearing program, which she developed in 2003. She also completes diagnostic hearing evaluations and sensory care plans for inpatient newborns and infants. She has given numerous presentations on auditory brainstem response evaluation, early identification and intervention of hearing loss, auditory development in infants and the effects of the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) environment on sensory development. She is involved with several research projects and consults with audiology and NICU programs nationally.
Presenting Early Hearing Detection and Intervention: Reducing Loss to Diagnosis, on Wednesday.
Bethany Berry, MA, CCC-SLP, is a speech-language pathologist with Ephraim McDowell Health. She provides PRN services to a local skilled nursing facility and is a consultant for Guidepoint Global. Ms. Berry serves on the Technical Advisory Committee for Medicare and Medicaid Services and is a Kentucky Speech-Language-Hearing Association (KSHA) Board member. She
is an affiliate of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Special Interest Group 13, Swallowing and Swallowing Disorders and a graduate of ASHA’s Leadership Development Program.
Presenting Strategies for Clinical Supervision for SLPs, on Friday.
Molly Bertinato, MA, CCC-A, is a clinical and (re)habilitation audiologist at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital. She spent the last 20 years specializing in auditory, development, differences, assessments and remediation. She conducted many presentations surrounding auditory and language learning in children with hearing loss. Her passion is for all children with hearing loss to hear at distances so they may learn incidentally. Her treatment experience allows her to guide families toward optimal outcomes.
Presenting CMV and the Multidisciplinary Approach, on Thursday.
Lauren Bland, PhD, CCC-SLP, associate professor and graduate program director, has taught courses in counseling, professional issues, speech sound disorders and disfluency. Active in the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA), she serves on the Council for Academic Accreditation and is a member of SIG 10. She serves her department as the ASHA continuing education content consultant.
Presenting Strategies for Clinical Supervision for SLPs, on Friday.
Eric Blicker, CCC-SLPD, BCS-S, is an American Speech-Language-Hearing Association board-certified specialist in swallowing disorders. He received his doctoral degree from Nova Southeastern University and was trained in flexible endoscopic evaluation of swallowing with sensory testing (FEESST) by Dr. Jonathan Aviv, the otolaryngologist who developed FEESST in 2000. He has started multiple flexible endoscopic evaluation of swallowing (FEES) programs in the south Florida and Cincinnati, Ohio area while training speech-language pathologists and physicians in the process.
Presenting COPD and Throat Burn Reflux: A Hot Topic, on Saturday.
Michelle Bourgeois, PhD, CCC-SLP, is a professor in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders at the University of South Florida. She has received numerous grants from the National Institutes of Aging and the Alzheimer’s Association to evaluate memory aids and interventions for persons with dementia, aphasia and traumatic brain injury, to investigate interventions for spousal and nursing home caregivers and to develop training programs for institutional caregivers. A clinical researcher, Dr. Bourgeois has published numerous research articles, training manuals, CDs and books. She was the recipient of the 2007 Barry Reisberg Award for Non-Pharmacologic Research, Theory and Clinical Practice and she recently served as an Erskine Fellow at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand.
Presenting Maximizing Communication for Complex Communication Disorders in Long-Term Care, on Friday.
Christina Bradburn, MS, CCC-SLP, is a school-based speech-language pathologist and national seminar leader. She is known for her highly practical approach and for sharing a wealth of proven teaching strategies and resources. Ms. Bradburn’s sessions are fast-paced, enjoyable and full of useful ideas you can immediately implement in your own speech and language program.
Presenting Integrating SLP Interventions Into Classrooms and Curriculum Using a Workload Approach, on Saturday.
Tina Brock, MAEd, CCC-SLP, is a speech-language pathologist with the Boone County School System, working with the high school population, as well as her private practice. She has more than 24 years of experience working in such settings as the residential Division of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities facility, the Northern Kentucky Regional Outreach Program with the Kentucky School for the Deaf, home health, First Steps, public schools and private practice. She has been a Convention co-director and has served on the Kentucky Speech-Language-
Hearing Association Executive Council.
Presenting Strategies for Clinical Supervision for SLPs, on Friday.
Alison Brown, MS, CCC-SLP, earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Murray State University in 1995, and her Master of Science degree in communication disorders from the University of Kentucky in 2001. Her liberal arts background pairs well with her degree in speech-language pathology, bringing art and science together. Ms. Brown was a clinical faculty member at the University of Kentucky before joining the faculty of Sayre School in Lexington as an English teacher and later, the director of academic services. Currently, she teaches at Murray State University in the Center for Communication Disorders and has a small private practice, Murray Reading. She received Sayre School’s Short Award for Teaching Excellence in 2010, and the Kentucky Speech-Language-Hearing Association’s Pace Setter Award in 2016. Her instructional methods are informed by her Orton-Gillingham and Lindamood Bell trainings, muti-sensory
approaches to teaching reading and spelling.
Presenting Just Beat It! Facilitating Early Language and Literacy Through Music, on Friday.
Russell Carpenter, PhD, is executive director of the Noel Studio for Academic Creativity and associate professor of English at Eastern Kentucky University. He edits the Journal of Faculty Development. Recent books include Sustainable Learning Spaces and Writing Studio Pedagogy.
Presenting Designing and Applying Creative Approaches for Higher Education Classrooms, on Saturday.
Edgar V. Clark, MEd, CCC-SLP, is the administrator of Integra Rehabilitation’s Agency and currently manages the Flexible Endoscopic Examination of Swallowing Program serving multiple locations. Mr. Clark has been employed with Integra Rehabilitation since 1999, and has served that organization in several positions. He is a past president of the Georgia Speech-Language-Hearing Association (GSHA), 2008-2009 GSHA Clinician of the Year and was awarded The Bob Hull Leadership Award in 2012-13.
Presenting The State of the Clinical Swallowing Evaluation: We Can Not Know What We Can Not Know and Flexible Endoscopy as a Primary Diagnostic Tool for Dysphagia in the Long Term Care Setting, on Friday.
Karen Coulter, PhD, CCC-SLP, ATP, has enjoyed a diverse work history as a speech-language pathologist for more than 20 years. After working a number of years in the school systems and in outpatient rehabilitation, she joined the University of Louisville’s Pediatrics Department as well as their Autism Center. Dr. Coulter completed her doctor of philosophy with the University of
Louisville and chose to pursue a specialization in assistive technology, specifically augmentative and alternative communication (AAC). During this period of time, she became the full-time advocate and guardian for an individual on the autism spectrum and she has come to understand both sides of the proverbial consumer/provider coin. After working at the University of Louisville, Dr. Coulter joined Murray State University’s speech-language pathology faculty.
Presenting AAC and Assessment: Your Questions Answered on Thursday, Current Decision Making Regarding AAC Apps and Overcoming Barriers to Using AAC, on Friday.
Daniel Croake, PhD, CCC-SLP, earned his master’s and doctoral degrees in rehabilitation sciences from the University of Kentucky. He also has a master’s degree in voice performance and pedagogy from Ohio University and certification in vocology from the University of Iowa. He is currently an assistant professor in the Division of Communication Sciences and Disorders. Dr. Croake is a clinical voice pathologist with expertise in evaluation and treatment of voice disorders. He has specialty training in treatment/rehabilitation of the professional singing voice. Additionally, he cares for patients with swallowing disorders, upper airway disorders and issues related to head and neck cancer.
Presenting The Show Must Go On? Care of the Professional Voice User, on Thursday.
Cari Ebert, MS, CCC-SLP, is a pediatric speech-language pathologist in private practice in the Kansas City, Missouri area. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Iowa in 1993, and her Master of Science degree from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale in 1995. She works exclusively with young children, birth to age five and their families and believes that early intervention is the key to future success. Her son has an autism spectrum disorder and apraxia, allowing her to engage audiences both as a clinician and a parent of a child with special needs.
Presenting The Power of Play in the Development of Young Children, on Thursday and Wired Kids: How Technology Impacts Early Child Development, on Friday.
Sherida Gentry, MEd, is a professional learning coach with the West Kentucky Educational Cooperative serving 24 districts in western Kentucky. She has taught at all levels from preschool through age 21, as a general educator, special educator and consultant for 28 years. Mrs. Gentry specializes in low-incidence disabilities including autism. She provides ongoing professional learning and individualized coaching to special educators, district consultants and therapists.
Presenting All for One and One for All–How to Work Together to Support Students in the Classroom, on Thursday.
René Gifford, PhD, CCC-A, is a professor in the Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences with a joint appointment in the Department of Otolaryngology. She is the director of the Cochlear Implant Program at the Vanderbilt Bill Wilkerson Center in the Division of Audiology as well as the director of the Cochlear Implant Research Laboratory. Her National Institutes of Health funded research investigates basic auditory function and spatial hearing abilities for individuals using combined electric and acoustic stimulation, hearing preservation with cochlear implantation and speech perception for adults and children with cochlear implants. She has published nearly 100 peer-reviewed papers and authored a book in 2013 entitled Cochlear Implant Patient Assessment: Evaluation of Candidacy, Performance and Outcomes. Dr. Gifford was the 2015 recipient of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Louis M. DiCarlo Award for recent clinical achievement as well as the 2017 recipient of the Vanderbilt Chancellor’s Award for research.
Presenting Bimodal Hearing Versus Bilateral Cochlear Implant Candidacy in Children and Pediatric Cochlear Implant Candidacy: Evidence for Expansion and Outcomes, on Friday.
Rebecca Goldwasser, MA, CCC-SLP, is a speech-language pathologist at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center (CCHMC) at the Mason location. She has been at CCHMC for 17 years and her areas of interest are working with children who need alternative and augmentative communication (AAC) in order to communicate, children who are on the autism spectrum disorder, dysphagia and verbal apraxia. She has served as the chair of the AAC team at CCHMC. Rebecca has also taught AAC at Miami University of Ohio and given seminars on AAC for the Ohio Speech-Language-Hearing Association and speechpathology.com.
Presenting Common Augmentative Communication Strategies for SLPs and AUDs, on Thursday.
Karah Gottschalk, AuD, CCC-A, received her Doctor of Audiology degree from the University of Louisville in 2013. She is currently a doctoral candidate in gerontology at the University of Kentucky, with her research interests focusing on the impacts of hearing loss on cognition and depression.
Presenting Beyond the Ear: How Hearing Loss Impacts Cognition, on Thursday.
Aubry (Abby) Gottshall, MS, CCC-SLP, is a speech-language pathologist at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Green Township location. Her area of interest is working with children with language impairments, specifically those that require an alternative or augmentative means of communication. She graduated with her master’s degree from the University
of Kentucky in 2014, and has been with the Division of Speech-Language Pathology for approximately four years. She has presented for the Ohio Speech-Language-Hearing Association and for the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association.
Presenting Common Augmentative Communication Strategies for SLPs and AUDs, on Thursday.
Brittany Grayless, AuD, CCC-A, has been with the University of Tennessee since 2014 and is an assistant professor. Her primary specialty area includes providing evaluations and treatment to various populations in the area of tinnitus. As an adult hearing health care provider, she also provides services in the area of hearing diagnostics and amplification. Dr. Grayless teaches the tinnitus assessment and treatment clinical education series and with a private practice background, also co-instructs the private practice clinical education series.
Presenting Evaluation and Treatment Options for the Tinnitus Patient, on Thursday.
Dave Hammer, MA, CCC-SLP, is the vice president of programs for Apraxia Kids (formerly CASANA). Prior to joining the Apraxia Kids staff in 2014, Mr. Hammer had 35 years of pediatric clinical experience at Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. His specialty interests have included pediatric stuttering, childhood apraxia of speech and speech sound disorders. He was a member of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association AdHoc committee on childhood apraxia of speech. He has been involved in the production of a number of apraxia-related DVDs and an innovative children’s CD. He co-authored the book entitled The SLP’s Guide to Treating Childhood Apraxia of Speech with Cari Ebert. Mr. Hammer is known for his practical and
therapy-rich presentations.
Presenting Childhood Apraxia of Speech: A Therapy-Rich Multi-Sensory Approach, on Friday.
Lonnie Harris, PhD, CCC-SLP, is a speech-language pathologist who earned his Doctor of Philosophy degree from the University of South Carolina. He has spent most of his 39 years in the field working with the pediatric population, focusing primarily on fluency disorders, voice and resonance disorders, oral motor disorders and phonology. Dr. Harris is a past president of the Kentucky Speech-Language-Hearing Association and has served on the board of the Council of State Speech-Language-Hearing Association Presidents (CSAP). He has presented more than 300 presentations at the state, regional and national levels on various topics and has written the Desk Reference of Assessment Instruments in Speech-Language Pathology From the Psychological Corporation. Dr. Harris is currently the director for the EBS Healthcare Indiana/Kentucky/Ohio regions.
Presenting Fluency Assessment and Treatment: A Refresher, on Thursday.
Caroline Alexander Hudson, MS, CCC-SLP, is a speech-language pathologist certified by the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association and licensed by the Kentucky Board of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology. She specializes in early intervention and has a particular interest in feeding issues and supporting individuals with complex communication needs. She has served the Western Kentucky University Communication Sciences and Disorders department as a clinical educator in several capacities. Ms. Hudson is currently the director of speech-language pathology services at the Suzanne Vitale Clinical Education Complex.
Presenting Clinical Supervision: Policies, Practices and Procedures, on Saturday.
Micah Johnson grew up in the small town of Morrow, Georgia where he spent many Sundays singing in church. From a very young age, he knew music would play a very important role in his life, and he wanted to share his talent with the world. The rise of singing competition television shows gave him the opportunity to do so. After not one, not two, not three, but six auditions, his dream became a reality when he was finally selected as a contestant on American Idol. However, when he walked into the sixth audition, there was something very different about him than when he had walked into the previous five. Ten days before, he had a routine tonsillectomy that left him with a life-changing speech impairment. Doctors told him he would never improve. He dedicated himself to speech therapy and singing and the results will speak – or sing – for themselves. Mr. Johnson will share his story of faith and determination.
Presenting Hitting the High Notes, on Thursday.
Renee Kinder, MS CCC-SLP RAC-CT, is a speech-language pathologist and currently serves as director of clinical education for Encore! Rehabilitation where she oversees education and training programs for interdisciplinary team members related to Medicare regulations, quality assurance trends and evidenced-based interprofessional clinical programming. She is also the author of McKnight’s Long Term Care News Rehab Realities blog, is a member of community faculty for the University of Kentucky College of Medicine and a member of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Associations (ASHA) Healthcare and Economics Committee where she serves as the RUC Alternate Advisor to the American Medical Association’s Health Care Professionals
Advisory Committee (HCPAC). Additionally, she maintains active membership in ASHA’s Special Interest Groups for Swallowing, Neurology and Gerontology and currently serves as professional development manager for gerontology.
Presenting Skilled Nursing Facility: Part A Reform and the Patient Driven Payment Model and Volume to Value: Tips for Documentation to Move to Quality Based Care, on Thursday.
Kelly Kleinhans, PhD, CCC-SLP, is an associate professor at Austin Peay State University. She has more than 25 years experience as a speech-language pathologist in health care, public schools and university settings. She is the current president of the Kentucky Speech-Language-Hearing Association. Dr. Kleinhans has published and presented on a variety of topics including augmentative and alternative communication, evidence-based practice and resilience in the multigenerational workforce. Dr. Kleinhans was awarded the 2017 Kentucky Speech-Language-Hearing Association –American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Clinical Achievement Award for her accomplishments working with individuals with Down syndrome. She has also received awards for her teaching excellence and outstanding scholarly productivity.
Presenting Strategies for Clinical Supervision for SLPs, on Friday.
Crystal Kudirka, AuD, CCC-A, is a clinical audiologist at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center (CCHMC). She provides various clinical services which include behavioral diagnostics, auditory brainstem response evaluations and amplification services. Dr. Kudirka has been a part of the CCHMC team since 2013, and currently serves as the student education coordinator for the Division of Audiology. She obtained her bachelor’s degree in speech, language and hearing sciences in 2009, from Northern Michigan University and her doctorate in audiology from the University of Nebraska in 2013. Her professional interests include vestibular assessment, amplification and student precepting.
Presenting Polishing Your Professional Portfolio for our students on Wednesday and CMV and the Multidisciplinary Approach, on Thursday.
Paula Leslie, PhD, CCC-SLP, FRCSLT, is a professor and director of the Doctor of Clinical Science in Medical Speech-Language Pathology at the University of Pittsburgh. She maintains full clinical licenses in the USA and UK where she is a specialist adviser to the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapy in swallowing disorders. Her interests include the process of clinical decision making, health professionals’ education and non-traditional routes to advanced clinical training. She publishes, provides support to researchers and provides continuing education from grassroots to international level and across the health professions on complex clinical decision making, ethics and end of life decisions in vulnerable populations.
Presenting How Understanding Ethics Saves Us From Clinical Practice Headaches, on Wednesday. This session will be repeated on Thursday.
Cathy Lester, MSSW, graduated from Transylvania University in 1985, with a Bachelor of Arts degree in biology and obtained her Master of Science degree in social work in 2002, from the University of Louisville. She taught high school biology and math at Doss High for two years and then moved into child welfare at Home of the Innocents, an emergency shelter for abused and neglected children. She then moved to Child Protective Services Investigations (CPS) in 1991. She joined the Early Hearing Detection and Intervention (EHDI) program at the Commission for Children With Special Health Care Needs in September 2011. As the EHDI Health Program administrator, she works within KY CHILD and CCSHCN’s database to ensure accuracy of data, assist families and providers with information and programming technical assistance.
Presenting Newborn Hearing Screening Risk Factors and Refers: What Happens Next?, on Friday.
Erin Lindon, MS, CCC-SLP, CIMI-2, earned both her bachelor’s and master’s degrees at the University of Kentucky. She is a pediatric speech-language pathologist at the Kids Can Do Pediatric Therapy Center, a division of Ephraim McDowell Health. She specializes in pediatric feeding and swallowing disorders and is a certified infant massage instructor.
Presenting Food Fight: Behavioral Approach to Feeding Therapy, on Wednesday.
Angela McWhorter, JD, is a Kentucky native who graduated from Asbury University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in history and English. She earned her Doctorate of Juris Prudence from the
University of Denver, College of Law, where she served as editor-in-chief and managing editor of Law Review. Having enjoyed a 14- year career as an attorney, she considers her greatest success to be her two children.
D. Jason McWhorter, BSN, RN, is a father, husband and nurse. He began his medical career as an emergency medical technician but was inspired to become a pediatric nurse after his son was born with special needs. He graduated Summa Cum Laude from Northern Kentucky University with a Bachelor of Science degree in nursing and now works in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital where his son was once a patient.
Presenting Never Judge a Book by Its Cover or a Child by Their Diagnosis: A Journey of Advocacy, Hope and Triumph, on Friday.
Shelley Moats, AuD, PASC, is the director of audiology with Little Ears Hearing Center at Open Arms Children’s Health, which is housed within Home of the Innocents in Louisville, Kentucky. She is the only board certified pediatric audiologist in the state of Kentucky. In addition to her clinical work, Dr. Moats volunteers her time as the co-chair of the Kentucky Early Hearing Detection and Intervention Advisory Council and as a board member of the American Board of Audiology. Her professional interests include training and education of audiology (AuD) students. Dr. Moats holds a gratis faculty appointment at the University of Louisville and provides guest lectures and student precepting. She also manages a fourth-year AuD externship program that attracts students
from across the country.
Presenting Newborn Hearing Screening Risk Factors and Refers: What Happens Next?, on Friday.
Marnie Pomeroy, AuD, CCC-A, FAAA, received her Bachelor of Arts degree in music and French from Beloit College in Beloit, Wisconsin, her Master of Music Performance
degree in voice from Roosevelt University in Chicago, Illinois, her Doctorate of Audiology degree from University of Tennessee in Knoxville, Tennessee, and completed her audiology doctoral internship at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital in Cincinnati, Ohio. Dr. Pomeroy is a licensed audiologist in the states of Kentucky and Arkansas, holds her Certificate of Clinical Competence
from the American-Speech-Language Hearing Association and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Audiology. She is currently a pediatric audiologist at Home of the Innocents
in Louisville, Kentucky.
Presenting ABC’s of Pediatric Audiology: Access, Best Practices, Compassion, on Friday.
Kayla Redden, MS, CCC-SLP, is a graduate of Murray State University and a fifth year speech-language pathologist (SLP) in Hickman County. She primarily works with pre-school to third grade and enjoys every minute of it. In her spare time, Ms. Redden likes to hang out with her husband and two cats and spends a lot of time blogging about being a school SLP and creating
products on Teachers Pay Teachers.
Presenting Social Media and the SLP, on Thursday.
Gail Richard, PhD, CCC-SLP, is emeritus professor in the Department of Communication Disorders and Sciences at Eastern Illinois University in Charleston, Illinois, specializing in childhood
developmental language disorders, such as autistic spectrum disorders, language processing, executive functions and selective mutism. She has multiple publications and is a frequent conference presenter, sharing her practical clinical perspective. Professional awards include Honors of the Illinois Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Fellow of the American Speech-Language-
Hearing Association and Illinois Speech-Language-Hearing Association, recipient of the Illinois Clinical Achievement Award and multiple teaching awards at Eastern Illinois University. She has also held many leadership positions in professional organizations, including president of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association in 2017.
Presenting Sorting Out Auditory and Language Processing Disorders, on Friday.
JoAnna Sloggy, MS, CCC-SLP, LSVT, received a bachelor’s degree in music from Methodist University where she currently studies voice and piano. She earned her master’s degree in communication sciences and disorders from the University of Memphis. She completed a rotation at St. Jude Children’s Hospital focusing on pediatric cancer rehabilitation. She completed her clinical fellowship focusing on voice and upper airway disorders at the University of Kentucky Voice and Swallow Clinic and is currently the singing voice specialist for the clinic. She is a member of the National Association for Teachers of Singing. Ms. Sloggy also provides assessment and intervention of general voice disorders and behavioral disorders of the upper airway including vocal cord dysfunction and chronic cough, as well as evaluation and treatment of pediatric voice disorders.
Presenting The Show Must Go On? Care of the Professional Voice User, on Thursday.
Tiffany Steele, MS, CCC-SLP, CLS, CIMI-2, earned both her bachelor’s and master’s degrees at the University of Kentucky. She is a pediatric speech-language pathologist at the Kids Can Do Pediatric Therapy Center, a division on Ephraim McDowell Health. She specializes in pediatric feeding and swallowing disorders and is a certified lactation specialist and a certified infant massage instructor.
Presenting Food Fight: Behavioral Approach to Feeding Therapy, on Wednesday and The SLP’s Role in Breast Feeding, on Friday.
Debra Suiter, PhD, CCC-SLP, BCS-S, is director of the Voice and Swallow Clinic and associate professor in the Division of Communication Sciences and Disorders at the University of Kentucky. Her clinical and research work focuses on the assessment and treatment of swallowing disorders in adults. Dr. Suiter is a board certified specialist in swallowing and swallowing
disorders and a Fellow of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association.
Presenting Altered and Artificial Airway: Who, Why, How and What Now?, on Friday.
Todd Terry, MA, is a 1995 graduate of Murray State University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in music with emphasis in vocal pedagogy. He later earned a Master of Arts degree in teaching from Murray State University and Orff-Schulwerk certification at the University of Kentucky. His 22 years in the music classroom includes two years teaching K-5 general music at Meadow Mountain Elementary in Vail, Colorado, 15 years teaching middle school general music, choir, rock band and musical theater at Sayre School in Lexington and he is in his fifth year teaching K-5 general music at East Calloway Elementary School. In addition to teaching music at East Calloway, Mr. Terry teaches leveled reading flex groups at every grade level and initiated a two-year program called “Little Laker Music Makers” where he taught languagerich music lessons to the Calloway County preschool classes. He received the Sayre School’s Short Award for Teaching Excellence in 2001 and the Sayre Board of Trustees Teaching Award in 2004. Mr. Terry has been a member of the Kentucky Music Educators Association (KMEA) for 20 years and is currently serving as the KMEA District 1 Elementary Music Chair.
Presenting Just Beat It! Facilitating Early Language and Literacy Through Music, on Friday.
Amber Valentine, MS, CCC-SLP, BCS-S, IBCLC, CNT, is a speech-language pathologist who graduated from the University of Kentucky with her Master of Science degree in communication disorders. She is a board certified specialist in swallowing and swallowing disorders and an international board certified lactation consultant. She recently received her credentials to become a certified neonatal therapist. She worked for Baptist Health Systems, Inc., for eight years before moving to Florida where she worked for Wolfsons Children’s Hospital and Mayo Florida. She is now back in Kentucky working for Baptist Health Lexington. Ms. Valentine has experience with adults and pediatrics with feeding and swallowing difficulties including bedside swallow evaluations, modified barium swallow studies, fiberoptic endoscopic evaluation of swallowing and pediatric feeding evaluations including neonatal intensive care unit. She has experience with head and neck cancer patients including evaluation and treatment of swallowing difficulties, Passy Muir Valve use and voice after total laryngectomy including tracheo oesophageal puncture.
Presenting Pre and Post Evaluation and Treatment of Dysphagia in Head and Neck Cancer, on Wednesday.
Tammy Wigginton MS, CCC-SLP, BCS-S, earned her master’s degree in speech-language pathology from Murray State University in Murray, Kentucky, in 1991. Ms. Wigginton is a speech-language pathologist in the University of Kentucky Voice and Swallow Clinic and is also a member of the Dysphagia Research Society, an international association of laryngectomee
alaryngeal speech instructor and a board certified specialist in swallowing disorders.
Presenting Altered and Artificial Airway: Who, Why, How and What Now?, on Friday.
Desiree Winterbottom, MS, CCC-SLP, is an American Speech-Language Hearing Association certified speech-language pathologist with more than 18 years of experience. She currently works in the school setting. Ms. Winterbottom believes that as a profession, we are continually challenged to think “outside of the box,” adapting practical ideas that keep the interest of our students while targeting individual speech-language goals and educational content standards. Her goal is to collaborate and share what she has learned to help us all be the best speech-language pathologists we can be!
Presenting Social Media and the SLP, on Thursday.
Continuing Education and Disclosures for the KSHA Convention
ASHA Continuing Education
This course is offered for up to 2.35 ASHA CEUs (Various levels, Professional area)
AAA Continuing Education
KSHA is approved by the American Academy of Audiology to offer Academy CEUs for this activity. The program is worth a maximum of 1.85 CEUs. Academy approval of this continuing education activity does not imply endorsement of course content, specific products or clinical procedures.
International Institute for Hearing Instruments Studies Continuing Education
This program has been submitted for 1.85 International Hearing Society CE credits.
First Steps: Kentucky’s Early Intervention System
Watch the website for approved session information.