Literacy And Phonological Awareness CEU Courses for SLPs

Thinking "outside of the box" fosters creative learning opportunities for students in various classroom settings. This course describes how to develop and implement a framework for improving social skills, life skills, vocational skills, and literacy skills that is creative and impactful.

The use of shared book reading as a powerful tool for facilitating language and literacy, and the integration of yoga into this practice, are discussed in this course. Methods for implementing StoryBook Yoga, as well as its positive impacts on the brain and on the development of the whole child across domains are described.

Shared book reading is a powerful tool for facilitating language and literacy. The evidence supporting mindfulness practices, and methods for integrating them into shared book-reading activities in order to enhance a child’s ability to listen, look, and learn are discussed in this course. Specific books that are appropriate for such therapy activities are described.

This is Part 2 of a two-part series. The connections between reading comprehension and areas of language such as vocabulary, morphosyntax and social communication are described in this course. Implications for intervention/instruction and collaboration with educators are also discussed.

This is Part 1 of a two-part series. This course provides SLPs with foundational knowledge needed to directly address and collaboratively support reading comprehension across all grade levels. Models of language and reading comprehension, comprehension processes vs. products, instruction in comprehension skills vs. strategies, factors in reading comprehension difficulties, and connections to general education are discussed.

Children learn to read through play and language-rich environments well before they are taught the first letter. However, as play is disappearing, children are entering school without critical skills necessary for academic success. Connections between play, literacy and academic readiness and strategies for facilitating play and language-rich environments are discussed in this course.

This is Part 4 of a four-part series. Current research on the socio-emotional, literacy, executive function, and narrative challenges in children with developmental language disorder (DLD), as well as the use of movement to accelerate storytelling skills, is described in this course. Evidence-based strategies to improve literacy and narrative skills through multi-modal cueing, purposeful play, and story re-enactment are presented.

This is Part 3 of a four-part series. Current research related to the importance of phonological awareness to literacy skill development is discussed in this course. Evidence-based, multi-modal strategies for improving pivotal phonological awareness skills, while maintaining focus on the child’s individualized therapy goals, are described.

This is Part 2 of a four-part series. The reasons that print knowledge matters and ways that SLPs can improve it are discussed in this course. Components of print knowledge, challenges with print knowledge and their prevalence in autism, and evidence-based, multi-modal print referencing strategies for immediate use in clinical practice are addressed.

This is Part 1 of a four-part series. Early linguistic indicators and risk factors that correlate with a greater likelihood of persistent literacy challenges are discussed in this course. Evidence-based screening tools for preschool and early elementary-aged children are also described.