LIVE IN-PERSON: Advancing Literacy and Language Outcomes: New Frontiers in Progress Monitoring, Intervention, and Diagnosis (May 2, 2025)

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Harriet Needleman Lecture

Sponsored by Department of Otolaryngology and Communication Enhancement

Speaker: Douglas B. Petersen, Ph.D., BC-CLS

Date: May 2, 2025

Time: 8:30 AM – 4:00 PM

Location: Bentley University Conference Center, 175 Forest Street, Waltham, MA 02452

This seminar delves into the integration of structured literacy, progress monitoring, and dynamic assessment for language and literacy, enhancing the connection between assessment and intervention while addressing the diverse needs of all students.

Profession

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$75.00 – $150.00

SKU: N/A Categories: General Pediatrics, Primary Care, Surgery

Description

Overview
This seminar delves into the integration of structured literacy, progress monitoring, and dynamic assessment for language and literacy, enhancing the connection between assessment and intervention while addressing the diverse needs of all students.

Part 1: Innovations in Language Sample Analysis Using the CUBED-3: Explore the CUBED-3 tool which incorporates advanced AI and real-time scoring to refine language sample analysis. This session highlights how speech-language pathologists and other educators can utilize these innovations to identify students in need of targeted language interventions efficiently, thereby fostering equitable language and literacy development.
Part 2: Leveraging Structured Literacy Through Story Champs: This segment focuses on the evidence-based principles of structured literacy and their application in educational settings. Participants will learn about the specific language targets within multi-tiered, explicit, systematic, sequential, and cumulative instruction. The presentation will demonstrate the significant impacts of structured literacy on literacy improvement and offer hands-on practice for implementing these strategies effectively in classrooms.
Part 3: Dynamic Assessment of Language and Literacy – Accurate Diagnosis and Tier-1 Screening: The accuracy of diagnosing developmental language disorder (DLD) and dyslexia in culturally and linguistically diverse populations is often compromised by traditional norm-referenced assessments that exclude diverse students from their normative samples. Addressing this critical gap, this session highlights the DYMOND as a dynamic assessment tool that not only overcomes cultural and linguistic biases but also excels in diagnostic accuracy. Designed specifically for diverse educational settings, the DYMOND also serves as an efficient Tier-1 universal screening tool, ensuring all children are fairly and validly evaluated. Participants will learn advanced techniques for administering, scoring, and interpreting this assessment, and will explore its strategic application across multiple educational contexts to identify and support students with language and literacy needs.

Each session is designed to equip educators and clinicians with the tools to implement data-driven interventions that respond to the varied language and literacy needs of students across educational settings. Join us for a comprehensive exploration of modern strategies to elevate language and literacy outcomes.

Learning Outcomes:

Upon completion of this course, participants will:

1. Identify specific language targets that can be addressed in multi-tiered, explicit, systematic, sequential, cumulative, and diagnostic language instruction.
2. Describe the key features of structured literacy for language.
3. Describe dynamic assessment and the current evidence of validity for language and decoding assessment.

Registration

Type	Regular Rate (Registration closes April 28, 2025)
Speech Language Pathologist	$150.00
Speech Language Pathology Graduate Student	$75.00
(Group Rate) 3 Speech Language Pathologists	$130.00

Registration must be received by April 28, 2025

Cancellation of Services
Although highly unlikely, in case an event is canceled or postponed, Boson Children’s can provide a full refund or offer a credit towards future events to those who have already registered.

Refund Policy
Refunds will be made in the following ways: For payments received by credit or debit cards, the same credit/debit card will be refunded.

No refunds will be issued after April 28, 2025

Questions? Email us at: needlemanconference@childrens.harvard.edu

Accreditation

This is a full-day course and no partial ASHA continuing education credit will be offered.

ASHA CE Provider approval and use of the Brand Block does not imply endorsement of course content, specific products or clinical procedures.

Faculty

	Speaker: Douglas B. Petersen, Ph.D., BC-CLS Douglas Petersen is a professor, the Maggie and Dick Scarlett Chair in Speech-Language Pathology, and the director of the Dynamic Language and Learning Lab at the University of Wyoming. Dr. Petersen conducts research across the world on language and literacy. Specifically, Dr. Petersen researches the measurement of language and reading learning-potential in school-age students, focusing on the development and validation of dynamic assessments and curriculum-based universal screening and progress monitoring assessments that mitigate cultural, linguistic, and environmental bias. He also examines the extent to which data-driven, multi-tiered contextualized language intervention leads to meaningful language and literacy outcomes. His co-authored multi-tiered, systematic and explicit language program and language and literacy assessments are some of the most widely used tools for structured literacy across the world.
	Disclosures: Financial: Dr. Petersen is co-owner of Language Dynamics Group and is entitled to royalties from the sales of its products, which include Story Champs and the DYMOND which will be discussed in the presentation. Dr. Petersen will receive a speaking fee from Boston Children’s Hospital for this course. Nonfinancial: No disclosures. Course Content Disclosure: This presentation will focus on products from Language Dynamics Group, including the CUBED-3, Story Champs, and DYMOND, but will also mention other similar products on the market.

Schedule

May 2, 2025
8:00 AM – 8:30 AM Check-in, Continental Breakfast (provided), Welcome
8:30 AM – 10:00 AM Introduction and Part 1: Innovations in Language Sample Analysis Using the CUBED-3
10:00 AM – 10:15 AM Break
10:15 AM – 11:30 AM Part 1 (continued): Innovations in Language Sample Analysis Using the CUBED-3
11:30 AM – 12:30 PM Lunch (provided)
12:30 PM – 2:15 PM Part 2: Leveraging Structured Literacy Through Story Champs
2:15 PM – 2:30 PM Break
2:30 PM – 3:50 PM Part 3: Dynamic Assessment of Language and Literacy – Accurate Diagnosis and Tier-1 Screening
3:50 PM – 4:00 PM Question & Answer

Travel

Parking Instructions for The Conference Center at Bentley:

Parking is permitted in LaCava Lots L1 & L2 on the campus map below.
Your program is located in the LaCava Center (Building 52, 53) on the third floor.

Building Directions:

The main entrance to LaCava is on the plaza between
LaCava (Building 52, 53) and Rauch (Building 61).