The USHA 2025 Conference will be all live, all in-person, all in one day. The conference will be held at the Salt Lake Community College Miller Campus Conference Center on February 28, 2025.
Address: 9750 S 300 W, Sandy, UT 84070
There will not be an option to attend sessions virtually. Sessions will not be recorded. Registration is required to attend the conference.
REGISTER HERE
Registration Level |
Early Bird Rate (before Feb 3) |
Standard Rate |
Non-Member |
$210 |
$235 |
USHA Member |
$150 |
$175 |
Student (no CEUs) |
$75 |
$100 |
If you would like to become a USHA member or update your membership, visit the membership page here.
Friday, February 28, 2025
| SLP Adult | SLP Pediatric | Audiology Adult | Audiology Pediatric |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8:00 - 8:30 | Registration and Posters | |||
| 8:30 - 10:00 | Annalise Fletcher, Ph.D. Utah State University The Hidden Effort of Communication: Objective Measurement and Broader Impacts of Speech Disorders | Haydee Franco, M.S., CCC-SLP Franco Speech Solutions Parent Perspectives | Neil S. Patel, M.D. University of Utah Current candidacy guidelines in pediatric and adult cochlear implantation, and other implantable devices |
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| 10:00 - 10:20 | Break and Posters | |||
| 10:20 - 11:50 | Jaime Lee, Ph.D., CCC-SLP University of Utah Texting Patterns for People with Aphasia | Emily Soderborg, M.M. & Brenda Beyal, M.A. BYU Arts Partnership Native American Curriculum Initiative Using Culturally Sustaining Strategies to Amplify Native American Voices in your Practice | Aryn Kamerer, Au.D., Ph.D., CCC-A Utah State University Who are People with Hidden Hearing Disabilities? | Jordan Schramm, M.D. Peak ENT Medical Evaluation Protocol for Pediatric Hearing Loss |
| 11:50 - 1:00 | Lunch and Business Meeting | |||
| 1:00 - 2:00 | Brett Myers, Ph.D., CCC-SLP University of Utah Current Assessment Approaches for Transgender and Gender-Diverse Clients | Kimberly Hirte, M.A., CCC-SLP Primary Children's Hospital Responsive Feeding Therapy | Kate Johnson, Au.D., CCC-A University of Utah Non-traditional Cochlear Implant Candidates | Stephanie Morgan, M.S. Utah School for the Deaf and Blind Language Development in Deaf or Hard of Hearing Children |
| 2:00 - 2:20 | Break and Posters | |||
| 2:20 - 3:20 | Hannah Allen, M.S., CCC-SLP Heritage Park Healthcare Patient Centered Dysphagia Care: Risk Analysis vs Fear-Based Decision Making | Kirsten Russell, Ph.D., CCC-SLP Brigham Young University Rethinking Language Goals in Intervention for Language Disorders | Sarah Ferguson, Ph.D., CCC-A University of Utah What Makes Clear Speech Angry? Acoustic Correlates of Angry-Sounding Clear Speech | Candi Bown, Au.D., CCC-A Brittany Bown, Au.D., PASC Peak ENT Collaboration between Clinical and Educational Audiologists |
| 3:20 - 3:40 | Break and Posters | |||
| 3:40 - 4:40 | Karen Straw, M.A., CCC-SLP DementiAgility Beyond Words: Navigating Communication and Brain Changes in Dementia | Brooke Buchanan, M.Ed., CCC-SLP Weber School District Treatment in Childhood Apraxia of Speech | Bailee Goddard-Hymas, Au.D., CCC-A Primary Children's Hospital Steven Lewis, Au.D., CCC-A Southern Utah ENT Grand Rounds: Pediatric and Adult Audiology Case |
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| 4:40 - 5:00 | Closing Remarks | |||
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
The Utah Speech, Language and Hearing Association presents the annual USHA Conference. Researchers, audiologist, speech-language pathologists, medical doctors, practicing clinicians, and others are invited to present topics of interest to medical based SLPs, school based SLPs and audiologists in a wide variety of work settings. This course provides professional development for speech-language pathologists and audiologists and an opportunity to collaborate and learn from and with each other. Topics included: ethical considerations, case study grand rounds, and updated developments of assessment, intervention, diagnosis, implementation and treatment for both audiology and speech-language pathology.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:
- Identify and describe aspects of ethics and personal leadership
- List and describe metacognitive approaches to goal attainment scaling
- List and describe psychosocial and treatment approaches to aphasia
- List and describe diagnosis and treatment approaches for motor speech disorders
- Explain the elements of diagnosis and treatment in early language intervention
- Explain the role right hemisphere strokes and long covid have in assessment and treatment
- Identify and describe advanced diagnostic techniques and strategies for audiometric testing
- Explain LSL treatment strategies with pediatric cochlear implantation
- Identify and explain consideration for implementing tele-ABR technology
- Identify the characteristic audiological test data for a vestibular case
