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Tim offers continuing education workshops for professionals. Sample outlines can be seen below. Tim’s workshops are loaded with effective, proven strategies to help people who stutter.
To book one of these workshops in your area, please contact Tim and specify the location, desired date, the audience, and the number of people expected to attend.
Participants will learn to:
Establish nonverbal and verbal rapport skills to positively influence others
Quickly analyze language patterns, eye patterns, and other subtle cues to detect learning preferences and optimize stimuli in therapy
Effectively use verbal “re-framing” to shift limiting beliefs and inspire
Structure therapy activities to maximize outcomes for all learning styles
Utilize proven strategies for goal setting with children
Employ the “Logical Levels” of learning to enhance outcomes
8:30-9:00
Registration
9:00-10:20
Introduction
A Formula for Therapeutic Excellence
The Levels of Learning
Identifying Representational Systems and Learning Preferences
10:20-10:30
Break
10:30-12:00
Representational Systems (cont.)
Rapport Skills Lab
12:00-1:00
Lunch
1:00-2:10
Advanced Language Patterns in Therapy
Well Formed Outcome Lab
2:10-2:20
Break
2:20-3:30
Strategies and Exercises to Create Change
3:30
Adjourn
Your instructor: Tim Mackesey, CCC-SLP, NLP has been a certified Speech-Language Pathologist since 1992. Tim has taught the graduate-level Fluency Disorders course at Georgia State University. His private practice, specializing in stuttering treatment, is in the Atlanta area.
Tim travels the U.S. and Canada conducting interactive workshops. ASHA recognizes him as a Board Certified Specialist and a Specialty Mentor in fluency disorders. As a certified practitioner of Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP), Tim delivers with a unique and effective learning experience.
This one-day seminar will help you dramatically improve your professional and interpersonal communication skills. Emphasis will be on identifying and capitalizing on unique learning styles. You will learn proven psychological skills for understanding and influencing your students. The format is a highly interactive learning experience.
Participants will learn to:
Precisely identify and measure disfluency during a video skills lab
Identify strategies for direct treatment of preschool children who stutter
Define successful ways of counseling parents and teachers to enhance outcomes
Label motivation strategies for children to reach their desired speech goals
Select appropriate fluency strategies to model and teach clients
8:30-9:00
Registration
9:00-10:30
Introduction
The Logical Levels of Stuttering
Early Stuttering Progression
Motivation Strategies
Parent and Teacher Empowerment
10:30-10:45
Break
10:45-12:00
Video Diagnostic Lab
12:00-1:00
Lunch
1:00-2:30
Video Lab (cont.)
Therapeutic Skills Lab: Modeling and Teaching Strategies
2:30-2:45
Break
2:45-3:45
Structuring Sessions
Transfer Strategies
3:45-4:00
Closing Remarks
4:00
Adjourn
Your instructor: Tim Mackesey, CCC-SLP, NLP has been a certified Speech-Language Pathologist since 1992. Tim has taught the graduate-level Fluency Disorders course at Georgia State University. His private practice, specializing in stuttering treatment, is in the Atlanta area.
Tim travels the U.S. and Canada conducting interactive workshops. ASHA recognizes him as a Board Certified Specialist and a Specialty Mentor in fluency disorders. As a certified practitioner of Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP), Tim delivers with a unique and effective learning experience.
The worldwide community of speech-language pathologist is rapidly embracing direct treatment models. F.A.S.T. Fluency is an acronym for Family And SLP Treatment for Fluency. This workshop delivers a cutting edge framework of theory, parental empowerment, direct treatment activities, and proven strategies designed to resolve stuttering in young children. Participants will learn a comprehensive plan of care including differential diagnosis, outcome measurement, and effective treatment.
Learner Outcomes — Participants will be able to:
Accurately identify ‘more typical’ and ‘less typical’ disfluencies via video analysis
Recall numerous proven strategies for remediating chronic stuttering patterns
Describe the process of training parents and significant others to assist the child
Outline positive reinforcement strategies to motivate young children
8:30-10:00
Introduction
Theoretical aspects of a direct approach
The Progressive nature of stuttering
Getting Parents Committed
Educating teachers and significant others
More Typical vs. Less Typical disfluencies
10:00-10:30
Break
10:30-12:00
Strategies for Direct Treatment
12:00-1:00
Lunch
1:00-2:30
Strategies for direct treatment(cont.)
2:30-2:45
Break
2:45-4:00
Training parents to facilitate practice
The unique window of opportunity with young children
Diagnosis to graduation: a framework
4:00
Adjourn
Quality diagnostics in fluency treatment require close, accurate evaluation of behavioral speech patterns as well as more subjective relevant issues including fear, avoidance, parents, teachers, and peer dynamics. In this interactive, hands-on skills lab participants will perform video analysis of disfluent speech. In addition to objective measurement skills, methods for cognitive and affective symptom evaluation will be learned. Actual case studies of children who stutter will be featured (one or more). The process of logically taking diagnostic findings to begin focused treatment will be covered.
Participants will be able to:
Differentially identify more typical and less typical disfluencies
Describe effective interviewing skills required to reveal cognitive and affective issues related to stuttering
Identify stuttering behaviors and design a client-centered plan of treatment
1:00-2:30
Opening Remarks
The Abyss: A void of quality, objective tests
Measurement Rules
More Typical vs. Less Typical Disfluencies
Video Diagnostics Lab
2:30-2:45
Break
2:45-4:00
Video Lab (cont.)
Therapeutic Skills Lab: Modeling and Teaching Strategies
Empowering parents, Teachers, and Significant Others
4:00
Adjourn
Begin Your Breakthrough (BYB) is an experiential workshop designed to help you: identify the obstacles that have held you back from communicating more effectively, practice proven strategies to facilitate change, and develop your own ‘towards motivation’ plan to carry over after the workshop.
BYB is a fast paced, interactive format that is low on lecture and high on experience. BYB is designed for adolescents-adults who stutter and professionals who serve them.
Professionals, parents, spouses, or supporters who attend will be expected to identify their own desired outcome and participate equally. If you want to begin change now, enroll in Begin Your Breakthrough.
1874 Independence Square Suite B
Dunwoody, GA 30338
Dunwoody is a north-central suburb of Atlanta; located just north of perimeter highway 285. The office is ½ mile outside 285 from the Chamblee Dunwoody Road exit. It is located at the intersection of Chamblee Dunwoody, Peeler, and Shallowford Roads. The clinic is in a professional office complex known as “Dunwoody Place North.” It is located in a group of brick, Georgetown-style buildings.
Our stuttering Atlanta specialist office is easily accessible for Atlanta, Sandy Springs, Marietta, Dunwoody, Alpharetta, Johns Creek, Buckhead, Roswell, Suwanee, Peachtree Corners, and other metro Atlanta suburbs.