Speech-Language & Audiology Canada

Registration is open for the 2025 Advanced Literacy Practices – Making it Happen! Workshop. This course offers S-LPs contemporary and advanced, evidence-based approaches to assessment and intervention in emergent literacy, reading, and writing disorders across populations. Sessions also integrate culturally relevant and responsive practices across diverse populations. Learn more and register here ➡️ https://lnkd.in/gFp6H8qE

Join SAC and CAA on November 13 to learn more about the 2024 EHDI Report Card findings and the status of EHDI programs across Canada. Register here ➡️ https://lnkd.in/gsf96G3q

Exciting Continuing Education Opportunity for Healthcare Professionals Including Audiologists and Speech-Language Pathologists!     We are thrilled to share a fantastic continuing education (CE) opportunity developed at the National Centre for Audiology at Western University, in partnership with Speech-Language & Audiology Canada as part of the Team Primary Care initiative. These free online modules focus on the valuable roles that audiologists and speech-language pathologists fulfill as members of primary care teams, as well as fostering accessible communication within team-based primary care. We have included an optional survey before and after each module to help guide quality improvement efforts.    Please use the following links to access the modules:  Module 1: https://lnkd.in/ghMXXuF5  Module 2: https://lnkd.in/gHqhHBBc  Module 3: https://lnkd.in/gpD8QBNF     Through enhanced communication and collaboration, we can work together to advance our impact in primary care.  Danielle Glista Sheila Moodie Faculty of Health Sciences - Western University

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Episode 26 of the Shining Lights podcast is now available! In this episode, Dr. Lisa Archibald speaks with Lisa Kohel and Lyndsay Bordeau, collaborating S-LPs out of St. Albert, AB. Our guests explore their work in schools, supporting kids with trouble with speech intelligibility and speech sound disorders. They talk about major challenges regarding speech-language services for these children and how that affects every aspect of being at school. Listen on our website now, or through Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Soundcloud! 🎧 https://lnkd.in/gPC4fHBX

Earlier this week, the Extended Healthcare Professionals Coalition (EHPC), of which SAC is a member, presented to the House of Commons Finance Committee on our pre-budget submission. We emphasized the critical need to continue the expansion of the Canada Student Loan Forgiveness Program, the continued expansion of health human resources data collection, a tax credit to help small employers expand their health insurance coverage, and funding to support the integration of our members into primary care teams.   A special thanks to MP Francesco Sorbara for recognizing the importance of including S-LPs in the Canada Student Loan Forgiveness Program during the session. Expanding this program is a key strategy to address staffing shortages in our professions and would improve access to care in rural and remote areas across Canada.   #Advocacy #Healthcare #SLP #Audiology #PreBudget #HealthHumanResources #PrimaryCare #LoanForgiveness

SAC is seeking an innovative Director of Speech-Language Pathology and Communication Health Assistants who is passionate about driving change through outreach and advocacy to join our team. In this role, you would provide leadership and expertise on issues related to S-LPs and CHAs and acts as a resource to staff, members, associates, and the public. If you believe you are the right fit and want to lead our efforts in shaping the future for speech-language pathology and communication health assistants in Canada, apply today! The deadline is November 12 ➡️https://lnkd.in/gwwE9fs6

The next Multicultural, Multilingual Special Interest Group meeting is happening on October 24. Join us for a discussion on discourse analyses in the assessment of monolingual and bilingual children with the Multicultural, Multilingual group. Learn more here ➡️ https://bit.ly/4f4vwHi

October 18, 2024, is Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) day. DLD is an invisible but common disability that affects 1 in 14 people causing difficulties in understanding and using language for no known reason. In Canada, there are approximately 2.6 million people of all ages with DLD. Recent research indicates that around two children in every class of 30 struggle academically due to having DLD. This year’s theme is "Speak Up for DLD" with the focus on amplifying the voices of people with DLD and their families. To gain insight into what it’s like to live with DLD, listen to our Shining Lights episode on Developmental Language Disorder Awareness with Miliana, a middle school student with DLD. Listen on our website 🎧 https://bit.ly/3BYAJlj Listen on SoundCloud 🎧 https://lnkd.in/gpaDMJtG Listen on Apple Podcasts 🎧 https://apple.co/4f77Ce7 Listen on Spotify 🎧 https://spoti.fi/4eNUkDk

S-LPs provide essential evaluation and intervention services to address swallowing and feeding disorders across the lifespan. SAC has created a Dysphagia Toolkit to support and educate our members working in dysphagia. Access the toolkit here ➡️ https://lnkd.in/gCUtEfXH