12th Annual School SLP Conference at Vanderbilt
August 1 and 2, 2024
When?
In person and Synchronous Remote:
August 1 and 2, 2024, 8:30 - 3:15 | Daily Sessions: 8:30 - 10:30, 11:00 - 12:30, 1:45 - 3:15
Asynchronous Remote:
Video links will be provided in two emails, one for Thursday sessions, one for Friday sessions (sent no more than 24 hours after last session each day). Videos available through 11:59 PM August 20, 2024
What?
A conference specifically designed to meet the professional development needs of school speech-language pathologists. but all SLPs who serve children and students ages 3 through 21 will find the conference valuable! Across two days, participants can earn up to 10 hours of professional development from the sessions offered.
Where?
In-person attendance on the Peabody Campus of Vanderbilt University.
Remote participants will access sessions online, synchronously or asynchronously.
REGISTRATION LINKS
General: https://redcap.vumc.org/surveys/?s=XR9THX8KFFARCC43
MNPS, SDSU, and FWISD: https://redcap.vumc.org/surveys/?s=EPLAYPCNTD8FJEP4
Deaf and Hard of Hearing Track: https://redcap.vumc.org/surveys/?s=MKH9CKMF8KFMFTD
Late registration must be completed by 11:59 PM on July 30th.
PAYMENT
All registration fees ($80 for two-day conference; $40 for one-day DHH track only) must be paid before the conference dates, unless prior arrangements have been made).
1. Pay by credit card at: https://pay.instamed.com/vumc_hearing_speech If you are paying for another individual, please place their name(s) in the memo space.
2. Pay by check by mailing check to: C. Melanie Schuele, 8310 MCE, 1215 21st Avenue South, Nashville TN 37232
3. Request an invoice at childlanguageandliteracylab@gmail.com
School Conference Session Agenda
Thursday
Friday, including the DHH Track session
Click above for the agenda for each day. Each session is marked as IN PERSON, REMOTE SYNCHRONOUS, REMOTE ASYNCHRONOUS so that you know what options you have.
School SLP Conference Attendees: You can participate in any sessions on the agenda (i.e., please attend any DHH sessions that you are interested in). DHH Attendees: Find the sessions for this track on the Friday agenda (right hand side of the page).
Sessions that meet ASHA requirements for (a) ethics (yellow), (b) DEI (orange), and (c) clinical supervision (blue) are noted on the agenda. We only have an in-person option for supervision and ethics this year. If you need these credits and are attending remotely, we can provide you some options after the conference concludes. Please email childlanguageandliteracylab@gmail.com
Please NOTE: You may access any sessions you wish but you may only earn 10 professional development/CE hours. The conference is approved only for 10 hours. Each person will receive via email a personal link to record attendance. Do not use someone else's link.
RESEARCH at the School SLP Conference
We have one research opportunity!
Research Opportunity #1
There will be an opportunity to complete a survey and earn a $15 gift card! The information will be posted on Wednesday.
In-Person Attendees
Parking Information
IF YOU PRE-PAID FOR PARKING: You will park here between 7:45 and 8:15 AM on Thursday. Someone will be there to provide you with a parking pass that will be valid for both days of the conference. If you run into problems, call 615.293.4681
IF YOU DID NOT PRE-PAY FOR PARKING:
Vanderbilt University's parking office allows visitors to access paid hourly parking via the Parkmobile App. Consider carpooling. There are multiple pay parking lots – we suggest you access one of the two on map of parking options (see link above). The Wesley Place Garage will be the easiest and here is the google address: 1921-2041 Scarritt Pl, Nashville, TN 37212
General information about parking on campus and access to the parkmobile app: Visitor Parking | Parking Services | Vanderbilt University
If you arrive early, you may be able to find free parking on the streets surrounding campus. However, most streets are limited to only two hours of parking.
Please note: DO NOT park at the medical center, as these spots are reserved for patient visits. If you park in the medical center parking lots/garages, patients will be unable to find a space for their visits. So, it is essential that you DO NOT park in the medical center lots. Non-patient parkers will be fined and/or towed.
In-Person Registration on the Days of the Conference
On Thursday and Friday mornings, attendees will register from 8:00 - 8:30 in the Wyatt Center. (GPS Address: 1930 South Dr, Nashville, TN). Please enter the Wyatt Center from the front as indicated in the map below. There will be signs directing you to the elevator that leads to the rotunda floor. You will receive a schedule of sessions with assigned room numbers and a map of presentation locations.
THURSDAY TREAT!
On Thursday from 8:00 - 11:00 we will have 2 baristas at the Wyatt Rotunda to prepare delicious coffee and hot chocolate drinks for you!
FRIDAY TREAT!
On Thursday from 10:30 - 11:00 we will provide cookies!
Restaurants for Lunch!
click on the link above
Internet Access
You will be able to access the guest network to have internet access during the conference. There is no password for the guest network.
REMOTE ATTENDEES
When you registered, you indicated your likely form of participation (in person vs. remote). If you need to change your form of participation, you do NOT need to let us know.
Please refer to the agenda (above) for the sessions and note those available for remote attendees. Use the link posted under each session to sign up for each remote session you wish to attend synchronously. You will then receive a personal email link that you will use to access the session on the day of the conference. We are using TEAMS for virtual synchronous participation. There is no deadline to sign up - but you will have to have signed up before you can participate synchronously and you have to sign up for each session - i.e., not one sign up for all sessions. You do not need to do the sign up for asynchronous attendance. For asynchronous attendance, you will link to videos stored on our Vimeo site. We will upload those videos each evening. All attendees will receive two emails no more than 24 hours after the close of each days' sessions. These emails will provide the links to Vimeo recordings. Please register for your preferred sessions ahead of time by clicking on the links. You have until 11:59 pm on August 20, 2024 to access sessions.
You may earn CE or PD credit for up to 10 hours of attendance/viewing. You may watch as many sessions as you wish, but you can only obtain 10 hours of CE/PD credits.
Need to complete any of these sessions? Supervision? Ethics? DEI? If you attend the supervision session and need to indicate to ASHA that you have completed this requirement, you will go into your ASHA account and identify that you have completed this requirement. ASHA requires 2 hours of supervision training as a ONE TIME requirement.
If you need to complete the Ethics or DEI requirement in your current maintenance interval, you will keep a copy of your attendance certificate to show that you completed these requirements. How will ASHA know you completed the requirement? If you track you own hours, when you submit your compliance you will simply indicate that you completed all requirements. If ASHA tracks your hours, you will go into your account when you have completed all hours for your current interval, certify that you completed all requirements, and submit the compliance. You will retain your conference certificate in case you need to show the at a later date which sessions you attended. (We get it. A pain. But it is what it is.)
ALL ATTENDEES
HANDOUTS
Some presenters provide handouts and if they do, they can be found by linking below. Check back because handouts are added as they are send to us.
Click Here For Handouts
Complete REDCAP Survey to Record Conference Attendance
Each attendee will receive a personalized link from REDCAP to record participation in the conference and "claim" CE or PD credit. You will receive your link at 6 a.m. from childlanguageandliteracylab@gmail.com via redcap.services@vumc.org on the first day of the conference and every Monday thereafter, until you submit the survey. You MUST use your personalized link. Sharing links among participants will result in erasure of previously entered information.
When logging on to the REDCAP link --
- You will provide your first and last name (If you are claiming ASHA CE, the name entered must match ASHA's records).
- You will provide your email (If you are claiming ASHA CE, the email entered must match ASHA's records)
- You will provide your mailing address (If you are claiming ASHA CE, the address entered must match ASHA's records)
- For each presentation that you are claiming "credit" for, you will
- select the presentation
- provide 1 -2 sentences on what you learned
- provide feedback to the presenter(s)
- You can return to the survey multiple times. Thus, we suggest that you complete the REDCAP survey after each session/presentation. Because you have an individual link to the REDCAP survey, you do not need any additional information to access multiple times.
- When you have completed all sessions/presentations that you wish to claim CE for, you will sign the survey and select SUBMIT. You must complete the survey by 11:59 pm on August 20.
- When you submit, you will immediately receive a copy of your responses with the appropriate documentation such that this copy serves as your attendance certificate. Please IMMEDIATELY save this document. We will be unable to provide the document to you at a later time.
- We will also ask you to provide some general conference feedback that assists in program evaluation and planning for next year.
- If you indicate that you want your attendance sent to ASHA CE Registry, we will do this in September. If often takes several weeks for ASHA to post to your registry. You should check on October 31 that your hours were recorded in the ASHA registry. If your hours are entered, please alert us immediately. Note: You must have paid the ASHA CE Registry fee for ASHA to track your CE credit: https://www.asha.org/ce/CEUs/
Our conference dates for 2025 will be set once Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools sets their 2025-26 academic calendar (which usually happens in October). As a result of your participation in this conference, we will place you on our mailing list (with the email you provided) and you will receive notification of the 2025 conference dates. Our newsletter comes from childlanguageandliteracylab@gmail.com and to be sure to receive information, please add this address to your contact list.