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Advanced Practices in
Voice & Dysphagia

March 1-4, 2025

Saturday, March 1, 2025

This pre-conference Voice Symposium will focus on updates and advances in voice care with a special focus on applying trauma informed care and considerations around intersectionality during the evaluation and treatment process. Participants will be presented with evaluation tools and therapeutic techniques rooted in the scientific evidence. Therapeutic examples will be used to highlight learning points and provide clinical pearls. Two panels will be used to put the concepts of trauma informed care into practice.

Audience: Intermediate level

The cost for the voice symposium is a separate registration fee from the main conference:

$155* for SLPs and other practitioners also attending the main Laryngology conference

$115* for SLP Master’s students also attending the main Laryngology conference

$180* for SLPs and other practitioners attending only the Voice Symposium

$135* for SLP Master’s students attending only the Voice Symposium

*If registering after Jan 21, 2025, add $20

VOICE SYMPOSIUM DIRECTOR

Sarah Schneider, MS, CCC-SLP

Speech-Language Pathology Director, OHNS

Co-Director, UCSF Voice and Swallowing Center

Associate Clinical Professor

UCSF Voice and Swallowing Center

Department of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery University of California, San Francisco

ASHA Fellow

VOICE SYMPOSIUM FACULTY
Lisa Butcher, SLPD, MM, CCC-SLP

Speech-Language Pathologist & Voice SLP Supervisor

NCVS Trained Vocologist

Lions Voice Clinic - University of Minnesota - M Health Fairview

Carol Krusemark, SLPD, CCC-SLP, PAVA-RV

Speech-Language Pathologist

Massachusetts General Hospital Center for Laryngeal Surgery and Voice Rehabilitation

Lecturer, Massachusetts General Hospital Institute of Health Professions

Emily Wilson, MS, CCC-SLP

Speech-Language Pathologist

University of Washington Medical Center

Department of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery

Lecturer, University of Washington

Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences

Symposium Schedule:

7:00	Registration
8:00	Opening Remarks – Sarah Schneider, MS, CCC-SLP
8:10	Trauma-Infomed Care: Buzzword or Roadmap? — Carol Krusemark, SLPD, CCC-SLP, PAVA-RV
8:45	Q&A
8:55	Choosing SOVT, RVT or SNF: What to Do When Nothing 'Works' — Sarah Schneider, MS, CCC-SLP
9:25	Q&A
9:35	The Power of Touch: Manual Therapy and Voice Rehabilitation — Emily Wilson, MS, CCC-SLP
10:05	Q&A
10:15	Break With Exhibitors
10:30	Intersectionality: How Does This Manifest in Voice Care? — Lisa Butcher, SLPD, MM, CCC-SLP
11:10	Q&A
11:20	Panel: Case Scenarios and Panel Discussion: Applying What We've Learned — Faculty
12:00	Lunch on your own
1:30	Improving Your (Diagnostic) Odds: Advanced Interpretation of Laryngeal Videostroboscopy — Emily Wilson, MS, CCC-SLP
2:10	Q&A
2:20	Playing the (Diagnostic) Odds: What is the Strobe Telling Us!? — Sarah Schneider, MS, CCC-SLP
2:50	Q&A
3:00	Break With Exhibitors
3:15	From Stimulability to Therapy: How to Gain and Maintain 'Buy-in' — Lisa Butcher, SLPD, MM, CCC-SLP
3:45	Q&A
3:55	"Stand Up Straight" or, Not? A Body Mapping Workshop and Application in Voice Therapy — Carol Krusemark, SLPD, CCC-SLP, PAVA-RV
4:25	Q&A
4:35	Panel: Answering Audience Questions - Submitted Through the Day — Faculty
5:00	Adjourn