CEU Courses for SLPs

This course provides an overview of social work as a profession, including the different settings and roles in which social workers are employed. It discusses best practices for how SLPs can collaborate with social workers when working with adult clients.

This course defines mild cognitive impairment and outlines the risk factors that lead to cognitive decline. It describes the breadth of research addressing diet and lifestyle strategies, which can give SLPs more confidence in providing holistic patient education as part of a comprehensive plan of care. Additionally, treatment goals and application to the SLP scope of practice are discussed.

This course provides an introduction to the career of a Medical Speech-Language Pathologist, including the wide range of possible employment settings, interdisciplinary colleagues, and clinical caseload considerations. It discusses the recommended initial foundational coursework and preparatory training for beginner to advanced certifications, and clinical specializations for current, practicing SLPs.

This course covers practical steps and cybersecurity best practices to help protect professionals as well as their patients’ protected health information. Recognizing malicious emails and websites, selecting strong passwords, protecting smartphones, and securing sensitive data are discussed.

Collaborative service delivery can often lead to communicating in difficult situations for many speech-language pathologists. Whether the SLP is communicating with colleagues or families, emotionally charged situations can lead to communication breakdown. This course provides a rationale and strengths-based strategies for communicating more effectively.

This course is the first in a 3-part series that addresses diversity, equity, and inclusion in healthcare. This course focuses on mental health care and the impact of implicit bias in service delivery. In addition, tools for facilitating and implementing effective diversity and inclusion initiatives are discussed, along with their challenges and positive effects on outcomes.

With current research focusing on resilience factors such as sleep and exercise that may impact the presentation and severity of Alzheimer's, SLPs have an opportunity to activate an elder's best defenses against the effects of dementia. This course focuses on health promotion activities to deploy in individual, group, and community health settings, across any adult/older adult population interested in building cognitive resilience.

This course discusses the importance of considering dialect when there is suspicion of a disability, key tools for reliable assessments, and the difference between code-switching and code-meshing. It will identify key considerations related to literacy development that should be shared with school staff, in order to improve reading outcomes for all students.

This course reviews dynamics of speech and language therapy variables such as session frequency, intervention intensity, and dosage, and how these are impacted by different service delivery models. It discusses how therapy outcomes are related to therapy quality, IEP goals, and SLP-level variables such as job satisfaction and caseload size.

This course provides an overview of the spaced retrieval technique, a cognitive intervention that can improve recall of functional information. It will discuss the evidence behind this technique and present case studies to demonstrate how to implement it with patients, including goal writing and documentation.