2023 NDSLHA Conference and NDSLHA Membership

2200 East Burdick Expressway,Minot ND 58701

23 March, 2023

Description

We are so excited for this year's conference speaker, Dr. Elena Plante! Evidence Based Practice and Assessment-Based Decisions, Dr. Elena Plante Recent surveys of SLPs indicate that they are familiar with the idea of evidence based practice for treatment but do not associate that term with assessment. Moreover, clinicians are often not armed with the information they would need to assure they are providing evidence-based assessment. This leaves clinicians ill-equipped to address assessment issues that may arise. These include due process hearings around service eligibility and disagreements that can arise when a client is tested by professionals from multiple disciplines and those test results disagree. Given that standardized tests are not “valid” or “invalid” overall, but only in relation to the purpose for which the test scores are being used, it is important that SLPs evaluate their specific purpose for giving a test (identify a disorder, estimate severity, identify strengths and weaknesses, etc.) with the specific evidence that supports that interpretation. This presentation will provide a master class in the evidence behind evidence-based practice in assessment with hands on practice. Attendees are asked to bring with them the technical manual and normative tables for a test that they frequently use in their practice. For more information about the NDSLHA conference, please visit: https://www.ndslha.org/convention/