Live Webinar Training
Call 1-888-440-7258 or email training@saltsoftware.com to schedule a webinar for your group.
These webinars are Internet-based using WebEx and are limited to 25 Internet connections. They are live sessions and need to be scheduled for a specific time.
Our presenters are licensed Speech-Language Pathologists with years of clinical experience using Language Sample Analysis and SALT.
Equipment requirements: a computer with speakers, microphone, and a good Internet connection. Most laptop computers come with built-in speakers and microphone. Most desktop computers come with built-in speakers but need to be equipped with an external microphone. Whether or not your computer has built-in speakers and microphone, participants in a large or noisy room should consider using external speakers and an external microphone.
C101: Introduction to SALT and LSA Basics
Level: Introductory
3 hours - $450
This course is targeted for clinicians. Topics covered include: reasons to use LSA/appropriate populations, LSA as it relates to curriculum demands, elicitation protocols and tips, database review, analysis with database, analysis without database, linking transcripts, and two case studies (with and without database for comparison). After attending this course, clinicians should be comfortable with elicitation, selecting an appropriate database for comparison, and be able to analyze a language sample. more info
C201: Introduction to Transcription
Level: Introductory
1 hour -
$150
This course is designed as an introduction to transcription. Learners will rely mostly on the web-based training to become proficient at using SALT transcription conventions. Requirements for transcribing, starting a transcript, checking and help menu are covered. more info
C202: Transcription Conventions
Level: Intermediate
2 hours -
$300
The Transcription Conventions course is designed for learners who want to transcribe their own language samples. This course assumes that learners have completed “Introduction to Transcription” and/or are already set up for transcribing language samples. Topics covered include: overview lecture on transcription, basic and intermediate transcription conventions, and utterance segmentation. Learners will be able to complete a short transcript and send it to us for checking and feedback. more info
C301: Subordination Index
Level: Intermediate
1 hour -
$150
The Subordination Index (SI) is a measure of syntactic complexity that produces a ratio of total number of clauses (main and subordinate) to the total number of c-units. The SI analysis counts clauses and gives an idea of clausal density. In this course participants will learn how to score a language sample for SI, insert scores and compare SI scores to the SALT reference database. more info
C302: NSS and ESS
Level: Intermediate
1 hour -
$150
The Narrative Scoring Scheme (NSS) is an index of speaker’s ability to produce a coherent narrative. This scoring procedure combines many of the abstract categories of Story Grammar, adding features of cohesion, connecting events, rationale for characters’ behavior, and referencing. Each of these categories has explicit examples to establish scoring criteria in order to increase scoring consistency. The Expository Scoring Scheme (ESS) is based on the NSS but is used to assess the structure of expository language, a critical language skill in secondary curriculum, using a scoring rubric consisting of the essential characteristics of a coherent expository. In this course participants will learn how to score language samples using the NSS and ESS. more info