Six SECD faculty among presenting authors at ASHA Convention

13 Nov 2019     By Kelcey Buck

Six faculty members from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s Department of Special Education and Communication Disorders are scheduled to make presentations at the annual American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Convention Nov. 21-23 in Orlando. 

Overall, seven faculty are listed as authors on 16 different presentations during the three-day convention. The full schedule for the 16 presentations is below, with names in bold for sessions in which the Husker faculty are presenting authors. 

Thursday, Nov. 21
6:30 p.m. – Seminar ­– “Planning Augmentative Communication Strategies & IEP Goals for Presymbolic Communicators with Autism & CCN” – Cynthia Cress

Friday, Nov. 22
7:30 a.m. – Seminar – “Voices Past & Present: Pathways Toward Recovery from Stuttering” – Naomi Rodgers
8:00 a.m. – Poster – “Speech Language Pathologists’ Experiences with Serving Students with Traumatic Brain Injury” – Judy Harvey
9:30 a.m. – Poster – “Interactions Between Contextual and Phonetic Information in Children and Adults’ Perception of Non-Native Speech” – Susan Loveall
Noon – Technical Clinical – “Group Memory and Self-Efficacy Training for Aging Adults” – Judy Harvey
1:30 p.m. – Poster – “Examining Quality of IEP Goals for Children with Traumatic Brain Injury” – Judy Harvey
3:00 p.m. – Poster – “Are Verbal or Nonverbal Abilities More Related to Prosody in Adults with Intellectual Disability?” – Susan Loveall
4:30 p.m. – Poster – “Feeding & Swallowing Difficulties of Children Born Preterm” – Steven Barlow

Saturday, Nov. 23
8:30 a.m. – Technical Research – “Adolescents Who Stutter Demonstrate an Attentional Bias Towards Negative Social Information” – Naomi Rodgers
9:00 a.m. – Short Course – “Aural (Re)Habilitation: Beyond Device Selection & Programming” – Michelle Hughes
9:00 a.m. – Seminar – “Anticipation of Stuttering: A Panel Discussion on Theory, Research, and Clinical Implications” – Naomi Rodgers
9:30 a.m. – Poster – “The Prosodic Abilities of Individuals with Prader-Willi Syndrome” – Susan Loveall
11:00 a.m. – Poster – “Executive Function, Adaptive Functioning, & Language in Young Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders” – Susan Loveall
11:00 a.m. – Poster – “Home-Literacy Environments, Shared-Book Reading, & Language in Down Syndrome” – Susan Loveall
2:00 p.m. – Seminar – “Small Steps Lead to Big Changes: People Who Stutter on Managing Stuttering” – Naomi Rodgers
5:00 p.m. – Seminar – “Augmentative and Alternative Communication Assessment: How to Adapt Procedures for a Successful AAC Assessment” – Kristy Weissling