Treatment of Childhood Apraxia: A Practical Guide

Warren County Speech Language Hearing Association Presents:

TREATMENT OF CHILDHOOD APRAXIA:
A PRACTICAL GUIDE

By:

Alonna Bondar, MA, CCC-SLP

Tuesday May 12, 2026

Farmstead Golf & Country Club
88 Lawrence Road
Lafayette, New Jersey

This workshop is sponsored by Warren County Speech Language Hearing Association (NJDOE Provider #965) 5.0 contact hours of continuing education units towards the NJ state license for speech language pathology.  This workshop is not ASHA approved but CEUs are accepted by ASHA as described on their website.

Presenter

Alonna Bondar is PROMPT-certified and DTTC trained pediatric speech-language pathologist with 25 years of experience.  She specializes in Childhood Apraxia of Speech and other speech sound disorders.  Alonna enjoys working with children with various diagnoses, especially children with Down Syndrome and Autism.

Workshop Description

If you’re seeking to improve your abilities in treating Childhood Apraxia of Speech (CAS) and achieve better results for your clients, then this course is for you.  Many of us were not trained to address Childhood Apraxia of Speech (CAS) in graduate school, making it challenging to create comprehensive treatment plans.  This course aims to guide you through everything you need to know about CAS and utilize evidence-based therapy techniques.  Additionally, with over 40 therapy videos showcasing evidence-based techniques used in actual sessions, you’ll have a variety of tools to enrich your knowledge and skills in addressing CAS.  Participants have praised the course for its thoroughness, evidence-supported content, and practical demonstrations of combining various cueing methods effectively.

Learner Outcomes

  1. Attendees will be able to perform a motor speech assessment and make a differential diagnosis of Childhood Apraxia of Speech from other speech sound disorders.
  2. Attendees will be able to describe principles of motor learning and how to use them to practice your target words in therapy.
  3. Attendees will be able to list three types of multisensory cueing techniques and provide examples of how to use them to improve speech motor planning
  4. Attendees will be able to describe why vowel errors occur, four key components of assessing vowels and three specific cueing techniques to remediate errors.
  5. Attendees will be able to list five challenges that the school age children with CAS face.
  6. Attendees will be able to list five activities to work on phonological awareness to improve reading skills in children with CAS.

Schedule

8:30 Registration/Continental Breakfast
9:00-12:00 Session 1
12:00-12:45 Lunch (Fully Catered)
12:45-1:00 WCSHLA Business Meeting
1:00- 3:00 Session 2

Who Should Attend?

Speech-language specialists working in school settings as well as child study team members, special educators and classroom teachers will benefit from this timely and informative workshop.

Special Request

Please submit any requests for accommodation for special needs in writing with your registration. Thank you!

Refund Policy

100% is refunded if you cannot attend the seminar providing WCSHLA notified in writing at least one week prior to the seminar.

REGISTER HERE

HANDOUTS WILL BE POSTED 2 WEEKS PRIOR TO CONFERENCE