Level 1A Course Description See how 60+ fun-to-use therapy exercises can be used to improve phonation, resonation, and speech clarity. Interactive, hands-on demonstrations will focus on therapeutically sound techniques that develop the oral muscle placement needed for improving speech clarity: abdomen, velum, jaw, lips and tongue dissociation and grading. Your child and adult clients will actually want to do them because OPT exercises are fun and working effectively! Real case video clips will be used to illustrate Oral Placement Therapy…
Find out more »Level 1B Course Description The participants will learn to diagnose the muscle-based deficits in Jaw-Lips-Tongue structure and functioning, using the OPT Treatment Hierarchies learned in OPT Level 1A workshop. Evaluation of oral functional activities in Respiration, Phonation, Resonance and Articulation will be based on the therapeutic techniques learned in OPT Level 1A workshop. Participants will be guided to write a comprehensive Oral Placement/ Feeding/ Speech Program Plan. Real case assessment video clips will be used to illustrate Oral Placement Therapy…
Find out more »言語治療師有時需要單獨工作，當服務使用者行動不便，但又需要幫病人作轉移; 又或者病人情緒不穩，突然出現挑戰性行為(例如扯頭髮/拉扯衣服/扼頸的情況)你可以如何處理？如果沒有適當的培訓和危機處理技巧，這些情況對治療師和病人都可能存在潛在的危險。 本工作會將涵蓋一系列主題，包括轉移技巧、風險評估、脫身技巧。您將學習如何為病人作安全轉移、識別潛在風險和危險及實踐在緊急情況下，保護自身和服務使用者安全的脫身技巧。
Find out more »THIS ONLINE TRAINING COURSE IS FOR NON UK DELEGATES ONLY Training begins at 8am HKT (Hong Kong Time) We will run through the Colourful Semantics approach and also provide you with inspiration for classroom implementation What is Colourful Semantics? Colourful Semantics is the ‘meaning of the words’ and this is made colourful by breaking down and colour coding different parts of a sentence. Colourful Semantics is a speech and language therapy intervention that indirectly works on developing a child’s grammar through…
Find out more »BECKMAN ORAL MOTOR ASSESSMENT AND INTERVENTION© COURSE About the Workshop Oral motor impairment presents a variety of challenges for both the individual affected, and for the care team providing intervention. Often the individual experiencing oral motor difficulties is not able to follow commands. The person may not be eating or taking fluids orally, which reduces the opportunities for observation of oral movement patterns. The majority of baseline protocols currently available require at least minimal direction-following skills. The protocol developed by…
Find out more »The Hong Kong IDDSI Reference Group (HKIRG) and the Hong Kong Association of Speech Therapists (HKAST) are excited to hold a half-day professional development event aimed at speech therapists in Hong Kong. This event will focus on the implementation of the International Dysphagia Diet Standardisation Initiative (IDDSI) framework across various clinical settings and in the community, as well as the promotion of different ways of diet modification for individuals with swallowing difficulties. Through a combination of informative sessions and practical workshops, this…
Find out more »*There will be a maximum capacity of 10 participants for each class. *There will be a minimum capacity of 4 participants for each class to proceed. In the case of underenrollment, participants will be notified and refunded in full. *No refund or reduction of course fee in case of absence of any session. *If the class you want to enroll in is sold out, please feel free to email us at info.yogasalsahk@gmail. We will try our best to accomodate…
Find out more »Central Commissioned Training Program for Speech Therapists 2023/24 Speech Therapy for Dyslexia ST Nomination Form Program Title: Central Commissioned Training Program for Speech Therapists 2023/24 - Speech Therapy for Dyslexia Date / Time: 23 Nov 2023 / 17:30 – 19:30 & 25 Nov 2023 / 13:30 – 19:00 Mode of delivery: Zoom Target Participant: Speech Therapists Capacity: 14 Program fee: HKD$ 360/person Enrollment: Interested participant please fill in and send the attached enrollment form to Institute of Advanced Allied Health Studies (IAAHS) by replying this email, quoting “Program…
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