2021 Leadership Summit
The fourth Aphasia Access Leadership Summit will be held virtually the 1st week of April 2021 gathering professionals in the trenches of helping people with aphasia navigate life. There will be a combination of synchronous and asynchronous content Monday through Thursday, plus synchronous content on Friday and Saturday morning. There will be opportunities to interact with presenters in real time and asynchronously, using discussion boards.
Attendees are people who are charged with making environments more communication accessible, running hospital-, community- and university-based programs for people with aphasia, creating innovative products, teaching the next generation, and/or working on research. Through the summit theme, Uniting for action: Learning from one another, attendees are invited to engage in meaningful conversations about how we can provide optimal services for those affected by aphasia.
Program Committee Chairs
Gayle DeDe, Ph.D., CCC-SLP – Temple University
Jerry K. Hoepner, Ph.D., CCC-SLP – University of Wisconsin – Eau Claire
Schedule
*subject to change
Monday – Thursday (April 5th – April 8th), Afternoon Talks
Monday
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM CST: Healthcare disparities for people with aphasia in the era of covid-19
- Speaker: Charles Ellis
Tuesday
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM CST: Panel on tele-practice for people with aphasia
- Panel: Charles Ellis, Tom Sather, Judy Walker, and Trish Hambridge
Wednesday
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM CST: Eva Park and Jane Marshall
Thursday
- 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM CST: Accepted submission talks
- 5:00 PM: BYOB Cocktail hour – Gathertown
Friday Schedule (April 9th), 9:00 AM CST – 5:00 PM CST
9:00 AM – 9:15 AM: Welcome
9:15 AM – 10:00 AM: Informal Conversations
- Gathertown
10:00 AM – 11:00 AM: Unpacking Aphasia Groups: A Panel Conversation in Two Parts – Part One
- Panel: Maura Silverman, Rochelle Schneider-Cohen, Jerry Kaplan, and Esther Kim
11:00 AM – 11:30 AM: Body break: Yoga and the LPAA
- Led By: Amy Dietz
11:30 AM – 12:30 PM: Unpacking Aphasia Groups: A Panel Conversation in Two Parts – Part Two
- Panel: Maura Silverman, Rochelle Schneider-Cohen, Jerry Kaplan, and Esther Kim
12:30 PM – 1:00 PM: TBD
1:00 PM – 2:00 PM: Lunch and informal connection time
- Gathertown
2:00 PM – 2:50 PM: Brag and Steal
2:50 PM – 3:30 PM: Brain Break: Games for people with aphasia
- Led By: Will Evans
3:30 PM – 4:30 PM: Poster Session
4:30 PM – 5:00 PM: Awards
Saturday Schedule (April 10th), 9:00 AM CST – 12:30 PM CST
9:00 AM – 10:00 AM: Therapeutic Alliance
- Led By: Karen Sage
10:00 AM – 10:10 AM – Break
10:10 AM – 11:10 AM: Collaborative goal setting for people with aphasia
- Katarina Haley
11:10 AM – 11:20 AM: Break
11:20 AM – 12:00 PM: Brag and Steal
12:00 PM – 12:30 PM: Wrap up & good-byes