Look for us at ASHA in Boston, November 2018. Our presentations are below:

Pragmatics, Social Communication, & Literacy in African American Children & Adolescents – This poster received a Meritorious Award!

Presenters: Yvette D. Hyter, Kenyatta Rivers, & Glenda DeJarnette

Social pragmatic communication consists of linguistic, nonlinguistic, and cognitive skills. SLPs have minimal knowledge about social pragmatic communication skills in African American English speakers, particularly with regard to speech acts, expository discourse, and social cognition. This poster session presents data on the contributions that these lesser studied areas of social pragmatic communication make to literacy development of African American children.

Location: CC/Hall C

Date: Friday, Nov 16 10:30 AM

Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes

Format: Poster

Code: 6260

Board #: 184

PDH(s): 15 Minutes

Emic Approaches for Managing African American Clients with Communication Disorders: Clinical Case Studies (Seminar 2-hours)

Presenters: Kenyatta Rivers, Yvette D. Hyter, Glenda DeJarnette, Derek Daniels, Kenneth Pugh & Gloriajean Wallace

In this presentation, clinical case studies will be presented to demonstrate how clinicians can use etic-emic approaches to manage communication disorders in AA clients who display language/literacy, voice, fluency, and/or audiological disorders.

Location: CC/153ABC (Lvl 1)

Date: Saturday, Nov 17 8:00 AM

Duration: 2 hours

Format: Seminar 2-hours

Code: 1718

PDH(s): 2 Hrs