Welcome to CCC for SLPs!
The Communication Connections Conference is in its fourth year and is continuing to grow! Join us in learning evidence-based practices on topics designed to meet the needs of school-based SLPs! It's your one stop shop for meeting your annual CEU needs (including ethics!) while covering the topics that are most relevant to your work in the schools.
Participants will be granted access to recordings of the presentations for later viewing. No additional CEUs will be awarded for viewing sessions after the fact, but the information is invaluable and will be at your fingertips!
Registration will get you access to the 12 TSHA CEUs provided by the conference including three hours of ethics!
Register today to reserve your seat!
Join us online from wherever you may be and access professional learning that is designed just for you!
Each day of the conference, one participant will receive a free registration to CCC for SLPs 2021!
CCC for SLPs will provide 12 TSHA CEUs including 3 hours of Ethics.
For SLPs needing to show 12 hours of CEUs, your Region 13 Certificate of Completion will meet that requirement.
Jyutika Mehta, PhD, CCC/SLP
Got Ethics? Ethics for SLPs, SLPAs and Audiologists
Jyutika Mehta is an Associate Professor at Texas Woman’s University. She is also Consultant for SLP, AAC and DHH services at Region 10 Education Service Center. She has been a practicing SLP for over 20 years and author of many publications in the field. Her research lab is dedicated to the study of speech and language representation in the brain. She has presented on Speech and Language topics at various forums.
Courtney Byrd, PhD, CCC/SLP
Communicating Effectively and Advocating Meaningfully: The Path to Improving Quality of Life for Persons who Stutter
Courtney T. Byrd is a Professor at The University of Texas at Austin. She received her Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University. In 2006, upon completion of two years as an NIH Post-Doctoral Fellow, she joined the faculty in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, where she is Associate Chair and Graduate Advisor. Her research laboratory received an endowment in 2012 and was renamed the Dr. Jennifer and Emanuel Bodner Developmental Stuttering Laboratory. In 2014, the Michael and Tami Lang Stuttering Institute was established as a distinct endowed institute dedicated to excellence in clinical research for which Dr. Byrd serves as the Founding Director. Her research interests include the study of speech-language contributions to childhood stuttering and the development of innovative treatment approaches and clinical training tools.
Jessica Franco, PhD, CCC/SLP, BCBA-D
Teaching Social Communication to Children with ASD
Jessica H. Franco, PhD, CCC-SLP, BCBA-D is a Clinical Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders at the University of Texas at Austin. She holds degrees from the University of Kansas and University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Franco has focused her clinical practice and research on assessment and treatment of children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). She founded a diagnostic and training center in San Antonio and has traveled as a consultant for schools and autism centers around the country. Dr. Franco has experience with a variety of approaches for teaching communication skills and methods for reducing severe challenging behaviors. She is active in many autism-related committees and boards, including the Texas Autism Resource and Research Center, Texas Autism Council Advisory Task Force, and the Autism Community Network
C. Melanie Schuele, PhD, CCC/SLP
Critical Contributions of School SLPs in Phonological Awareness Assessment and Intervention
Prior to obtaining her PhD, Dr. Schuele practiced as a speech-language pathologist in school-based and clinical settings serving primarily young children with language impairments. Her interests focus on improving the services children with disabilities received in school settings. In the master’s program in speech-language pathology, Dr. Schuele teaches courses on child language impairment and speech sound disorders (offered annually). She directs the specialty track in school speech-language pathology. In the PhD program, she co-teaches, along with Dr. Camarata, a course on language research methods (offered in the spring semester of even numbered years). Dr. Schuele’s research lab, the Child Language and Literacy Lab, is focused on the development of language and literacy skills in typical and atypical populations and in advancing the practice of speech-language pathology in schools. Their complex syntax research documents the course of complex syntax acquisition in children with specific language impairment (SLI) as compared to typically developing same-age peers and language-matched peers and explores strategies for improving the complex syntax outcomes of children with language impairment. Their research on early literacy acquisition explores, within school-based settings, the effectiveness of multi-tiered layers of instruction and intervention provided to children with early literacy difficulties, particularly children with SLI. Lab members include PhD students, master’s students and undergraduate students as well as high school students from the School for Science and Math at Vanderbilt.
Katie Adams, MS, CCC/SLP
Roadmap to Collaboration: Maximize Your Impact as an SLP
Katie Adams is the Education Specialist for Speech-Language Pathology at Education Service Center Region 11. She received her Masters of Science from the University of Texas at Dallas and her Bachelor of Science from the University of Texas at Austin. She previously served as the Education Specialist for Early Childhood Special Education at Education Service Center Region 13. She has served as public school Speech- Language Pathologist at The Laurent Clerc National Deaf Education Center in Washington DC, Richardson ISD and Round Rock ISD.
Daniel Rigney, MA, CCC/SLP
How to Get Teachers, Parents and other Stakeholders to Implement Intervention Plans
Daniel Rigney, CCC-SLP is an Education Specialist at Region 13. He received his M.A. in Communication Sciences and Disorders from UT Austin and has over a decade of experience working students in Special Education in a variety of roles. As part of Region 13’s Low Incidence Disabilities team, Daniel provides direct instructional support for educators who teach students with significant cognitive disabilities. He also provides in-person and digital educational experiences, and facilitates Region 13’s AU/DD Specialist Network.
Christina Bradburn, MS, CCC/SLP
Integrating SLP Interventions into Classroom and Curriculum Using a Workload Approach
Christina Bradburn is a full-time, practicing, school-based speech language pathologist. She received her BS (‘99) and MS (‘01) from Indiana State University. Christina is also a national presenter for the Bureau of Education and Research. She has served students of all ability levels and is passionate about working collaboratively and maximizing time through creative scheduling without sacrificing high quality and effective services to students. She is the author of Timesaving Strategies to Integrate your SLP Interventions into Classrooms: Moving from a Caseload to a Workload Approach. Christina is known for her practical approach and for sharing a wealth of proven teaching strategies and resources that are easy to use on a daily basis. Her presentations are fast-paced and full of useful ideas you can immediately implement to guide your school’s speech language program.