Upcoming Medical Conferences in Minot

Beckman Oral Motor Assessment & Intervention Workshop is organized by Beckman Oral Motor and will be held from Mar 29 - 30, 2019 at Trinity Health Center - Riverside, Minot, North Dakota, United States of America. The target audience for this medical event is Licensed speech pathologists and occupational therapists. This CME Conference has been approved for a maximum of 16 contact hours or 1.6 CEUs. CME :  This CME Conference has been approved for a maximum of 1.6 ASHA/AOTA CEU. Course Description : This is a two-day, hands-on intensive workshop. Participants will learn compensatory hands-on techniques for tonic bite, slow oral transit, tongue thrust, and gag. The participants will practice over 50 specific intervention strategies for improving facial muscle function for eating and speech. Additional topics of discussion may include: goal writing, diet texture progression, tube to oral issues, adaptive mealtime utensils, oral hygiene issues, medication administration issues, oral function for individuals with trachs, facilitating improved articulation through oral motor techniques, research issues, videofluroscopy issues for motorically involved individuals, and additional topics of importance as determined by the participant.  In this two day course participants will actively participate in hands-on practice for compensatory handling techniques for the following concerns: tonic bite, tonic bite on a utensil, slow oral transit, tongue thrust, cough, gag and vomit. The participants will complete an oral motor protocol with each other, analyze the results, and discuss data tracking. The participants will also complete hands-on practice for specific oral motor interventions to address the deficit areas discovered during baseline assessment. Course Objectives are : • Demonstrate assessment battery for determining orofacial movement patterns using the Beckman protocol. • Demonstrate compensatory handling techniques. • Demonstrate oral motor interventions and treatment techniques. • Recognize how to screen for potential referral candidates. • Identify the results of the techniques discussed. Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.