Description

 

This speech pathology online CEU course is offered for 0.15 ASHA CEUs (1.5 Contact Hours).

 

Course Format: Text - including samples & picture references and 3 case studies.

 

Please note:  This eCourse is set up to be flexible to accomodate all schedules.  You do not have to complete this program in one sitting.  You can access the course materials as many times as you need to in order to complete all the sections. 

Course Objectives

· Discuss the impact of the environment on communication

. Initiate the process of environmental assessment

· Identify simple environmental interventions that will improve communication and activities of daily living for people with dementia

Author Profile

Jennifer A. Brush, M.A., CCC-SLP, is an internationally published researcher, educator, and long-term care consultant currently in practice in Northeast Ohio. Ms. Brush specializes in geriatric care, rehabilitation programming, and interdisciplinary activity development for dementia. As a sought after speaker, she offers interactive and educational presentations that help audiences to bridge the gap between current research findings and the care needs of their clients and communities. Ms. Brush has first hand applied research experience as she has served as the Principal Investigator on both government and private foundation grants. She is the co-author of A Therapy Technique for Improving Memory: Spaced Retrieval, and Time Well Spent with the Older Adult. She is the editor of IDEAS for a Better Visit, as well as the author of numerous articles related to cognitive disorders, memory loss, and dementia.

Michelle Bourgeois, PhD, CCC-SLP,  is a professor in the Department of Speech & Hearing Services at The Ohio State University. With grants from the National Institutes of Aging and the Alzheimer's Association, she is currently investigating interventions for spousal and nursing home caregivers.

Carrie Bruce, M.A., CCC-SLP, ATP, is a Speech-Language Pathologist and an Assistive Technology Practitioner. She serves as a co-investigator in the Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center on Workplace Accommodations and provides support to other sponsored projects related to accessibility, disability, and design. Ms. Bruce has been working in the field of rehabilitation and assistive technology for ten years, with expertise in modifications related to communication devices and computer access technologies used. Her recent work includes descriptive analyses of assessment instruments with a person-environment fit focus, development of a workplace accommodations assessment, classification of environmental features in informal learning environments, and investigation on universally designed exhibit interpretation.

Margaret P. Calkins, Ph.D, is internationally recognized as a leader in the field of environments for elderly, especially those with Alzheimer's and other dementias. After completing an A.B. in psychology at Kenyon College, she received her Masters and Ph.D. of Architecture at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Dr. Calkins has spent many years exploring the therapeutic potential of the environment—social and organizational as well as physical—particularly as it relates to frail and impaired older adults. A member of several national organizations and panels which focus on issues of care for cognitively impaired older Americans, she speaks frequently at conferences both here in the US and abroad. She has recently served on several design juries, which seek to identify state of the art facilities in both health care and long term care. She has published extensively, and her book Design for Dementia: Planning Environments for the Elderly and the Confused was the first comprehensive design guide for special care units. Most recently she developed a four-volume book set titled Creating Successful Dementia Care Settings (see product page for information). Dr. Calkins has served as Principal Investigator on grants from the National Institutes of Health. She is also Senior Fellow Emeritus of the Institute on Aging and Environment at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

Eleanor S. McConnell, RN, Ph.D., GCNS, BC, is an Associate Professor at Duke University School of Nursing.  Dr. McConnell directs the Duke Center of Excellence in Geriatric Nursing Education, and serves as co-Director of the Duke Geriatric Education Center. She also serves as a clinical nurse specialist and investigator with the Durham VA’s Geriatric Research, Education and Clinical Center.  Dr. McConnell’s academic interests include frailty in the aged, the role of the physical environment in promoting function, and implementation research. Her currently funded work focuses on factors that influence implementation of evidence-based interventions to prevent functional decline in very frail older adults, with a particular interest in improving care for older adults with cognitive impairment. She currently co-chairs the  Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Dementia Warning Signs Workgroup, charged with developing written guidance for clinicians on Dementia Warning Signs Use to improve detection of dementia.  She is a co-investigator on a randomized trial testing two different educational approaches to implementation of evidence-based falls prevention programs in long-term care, funded by the Department of Veterans Affairs Health Services Research and Development Service and the National Institutes of Health.  In 2008 Dr. McConnell was named a Distinguished Practitioner in the National Academies of Practice, and received the North Carolina State Division of Aging and Adult Services Ewald Busse Award, for contributions to shaping aging policy in North Carolina.  In addition to her scientific publications Dr. McConnell co-edited the pioneering textbook: Matteson & McConnell's Gerontological Nursing: Concepts and Practice.

Robin L. Chilton, MBA, OTR/L, is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Master of Occupational Therapy Program at Cleveland State University.  She is a licensed and registered occupational therapist who has been working in the field of geriatrics for over 15 years. In 2011 Ms. Chilton was awarded a grant from the Gerontological Society of America (GSA) and the Association for Gerontology in Higher Education (AGHE): 1) to promote health careers in gerontology for undergraduate and graduate students, and 2) to conduct a needs assessment for the purpose of determining possible curriculum modifications and/or enhancements to meet the demands of the current geriatric climate.  Ms. Chilton was also responsible for developing and implementing a Service Learning Program that provides occupational therapy students with the opportunity to plan and facilitate task-oriented groups with economically disadvantaged African American older adults at an inner city adult day care center. 

Location & Lodging

 

Intended Audience

• Nurse
• OT
• SLP

Accreditation

This program is offered for .15 CEUs (Intermediate level; Professional area).

 

Per our longstanding procedures with ASHA, we submit CEU information to ASHA quarterly, so your CEUs will be reflected as completed on the last day of that quarter.  For instance, if you complete a course on December 7th, 2011, it will be reported to ASHA in January 2012, and it will be reflected in your ASHA account as completed on December 31st, 2011.  However, for submitting to your state board or for your own records, you will receive a certificate of completion with the actual completion date. 

AOTA

First Content Focus
Occupational Therapy Process: Intervention
Second Content Focus:
Occupational Therapy Process: Outcomes

AOTA: Approved Provider of Continuing Education by the American Occupational Therapy Association, Inc. #4095.
The assignment of AOTA CEUs does not imply endorsement of specific course content, products, or clinical procedures by AOTA.