Date: Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
Check-In Time(s): 5:30pm-6:00pm
Class Time(s): 6:00pm-8:00pm
Location: Riverside Park Plaza Building, Park Plaza Auditorium

Speaker(s):
Carol Klitzke, M.S. C.C.C./SLP Clinical Specialist 1 Carol Klitzke is a Speech-Language Pathologist and voice specialist at the Fairview Voice Center in Minneapolis. She brings more than 16 years experience to the specialty care of voice/larynx and swallowing disorders. Carol’s experience involves teaching, training and consulting for music educators, performers, clergy, instructors and graduate students. She has taken advanced training in videostroboscopy techniques, Vocal Cord Dysfunction and Lee Silverman Voice Training for Parkinson’s Disease. Carol’s presentation audiences include the Voice Care Network, National Music Educators Conference, Sweet Adelines’ national and regional conferences and Minnesota school districts’ meetings and numerous professional training sessions. Her credentials are a masters of science degree in Speech Pathology from the University of Wisconsin – Madison, Certificate of Clinical Competence from the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association and SLP license from the state of Minnesota. Prior to joining Fairview she was in private practice with voice educator/voice specialist Leon Thurman, Ed.D. She was an adjunct instructor at St. Cloud State University, and in 2007, 2008 a guest lecturer at University of Wisconsin River Falls. She is on the faculty of the Voice Care Network.

Course Description:
This CE will introduce the Fairview Voice Center Resource Manual which will be placed at each site. The course will focus on the use of the evaluation as a communication diagnosis tool, not just as a baseline measurement tool. There will be an overview of 6 treatment categories. More time will be spent on identification and treatment of the less common voice, laryngeal, vocal tract, resonance and related swallowing disorders. Woven into this will be voice health tips for patients and answers to burning questions such as “Am I drinking enough water?” and “How will I tell you I love you if I can’t whisper?”

Course Objectives:
1. Be familiar with the Fairview Voice and larynx Disorders Resource Manual.
2. Provide voice communication diagnoses and assign patients to appropriate treatment categories.
3. Recognize less common voice and larynx disorders and start appropriate intervention.
4. Provide accurate information to patients regarding voice health management.

Course Agenda:
1. Introduction and review of the Fairview Voice and Larynx Disorders Resource manual.
2. Use of the voice evaluation to guide differential communication diagnosis.
3. Use of 6 treatment categories to guide the therapeutic process.
4. Treatment of less common disorders; • Respiratory and cough problems. • Associated swallowing problems. • Vocal tract problems. • Subtle resonance problems.
5. What to tell patients about voice health, prevention of problems and myths.