Maximizing Your Impact with staRt
LIVE Webinar with Dr. Tara McAllister, the inventor of staRt, an evidence-based visual-acoustic biofeedback app that helps SLPs elicit the R sound.
Course Summary
Abstract:
This course discusses the use of visual-acoustic biofeedback to elicit perceptually accurate rhotics in children with residual speech sound disorder. It discusses who is a suitable candidate for biofeedback, how the visual-acoustic biofeedback display can be used to elicit correct R sounds, and how to encourage generalization in biofeedback treatment.
Learning Objectives:
1. Describe how the principles of motor learning can inform the decision of when to integrate biofeedback into treatment
2. Identify two factors that define a good candidate for biofeedback treatment.
3. Describe the appearance of the biofeedback wave for correct and distorted R sounds
*Please note this is the same 1hr webinar as offered in the fundraising campaign Summer 2025.
Now offering ASHA CEUs!
“It’s a must as it will absolutely impact your clinical practice, almost immediately”
-Mayra D
I’ve been using the staRt since its early days. The definitions, step by step instructions, feature highlights, and pre-practice & structured practice overview in the webinar pulled it all together for me. It’s a terrific tool to use in therapy.
-June G
Course Curriculum
Tara McAllister
Tara McAllister, Ph.D., CCC-SLP is a linguist and speech-language pathologist who studies speech learning in various populations, notably children with speech sound disorder. As director of the Biofeedback Intervention Technology for Speech (BITS) Lab at NYU, she has conducted multiple studies measuring the efficacy of acoustic and ultrasound biofeedback in the treatment of persistent speech sound deviations. BITS lab research is funded by the NIH National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders. Since 2014, Dr. McAllister has directed the development of staRt, an iOS app to make biofeedback speech training more widely accessible
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