CEU Courses

#5222: Treating the Picky and Problem Eater

Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 12:00 pm EDT – Jennifer Dahms

CEUs/Hours Offered: ASHA/0.1 Intermediate, Professional; CASLPA/1.0

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Children who demonstrate picky and problem eating behaviors are some of the more difficult populations to treat as their difficulties with eating can consume the entire family. After the feeding evaluation is completed, the feeding therapist will need to determine which strategy is most appropriate for the child. It is important, regardless of which technique is chosen, that a family can complete activities with a high level of repetition at home.

#5255: Break a Leg: Idiom Use and Comprehension

Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 12:00 pm EDT – Cecile Cyrul Spector

CEUs/Hours Offered: ASHA/0.1 Introductory, Professional; CASLPA/1.0

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Approximately two thirds of our spontaneous conversational interactions are comprised of figurative language, mostly idiomatic expressions. For this reason it is imperative that individuals can use and understand these expressions. This seminar discusses the various types of idioms, how they are learned, as well as describing techniques for improving idiom use and comprehension.

#5249: Building Better Readers: Focus on Reading Fluency

Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 12:00 pm EDT – Shari Robertson

CEUs/Hours Offered: ASHA/0.1 Intermediate, Professional; CASLPA/1.0

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Reading fluency has been identified by the National Reading Panel as one of five skills critical to the development of literacy. Improvements in reading fluency can also provide substantial, positive benefit in skills areas related to comprehension, pragmatics, vocabulary, and overall academic success. This seminar will provide participants with multiple evidence-based strategies for developing reading fluency in children of all ages. Hands-on activities, lesson ideas, material lists, and links to resources will be provided.

#5219: Motor-skill Learning Approach to the Treatment of SSD

Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 12:00 pm EST – Steven L. Skelton

CEUs/Hours Offered: ASHA/0.1 Intermediate, Professional; CASLPA/1.0

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This course provides an integrated approach to treating speech-sound disorders (SSD) from a motor-skill learning perspective. First is a review of basic motor-skill learning concepts. Second, is a discussion of various practice conditions with research and clinical examples. Finally there will be a proposed treatment model to provide comprehensive application.

#5218: Speech and Literacy: The Connection and the Relevance to Clinical Practice

Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 12:00 pm EST – Jonathan Preston

CEUs/Hours Offered: ASHA/0.1 Intermediate, Professional; CASLPA/1.0

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This course focuses on the connection between speech sound disorders and the phonological bases of reading. Assessment considerations for preschool and young school-age children with speech sound disorders will be described. Treatment approaches that focus on infusing phonological awareness/print awareness into articulation/phonological therapy will be discussed.

#5216: Measuring and Assessing Severity of Involvement for Children with SSD

Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 12:00 pm EST – Peter Flipsen

CEUs/Hours Offered: ASHA/0.1 Intermediate, Professional; CASLPA/1.0

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This course will examine the question of severity of involvement in children with speech sound disorders (SSD). The focus will be on the factors involved in determining severity as well as the latest methods for measuring it.

#5240: Phonological Productions of Spanish-speaking Children: Assessment and Implications for Treatment

Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 12:00 pm EST – Raúl F. Prezas

CEUs/Hours Offered: ASHA/0.1 Intermediate, Professional; CASLPA/1.0

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This course will provide an overview of the phonological backgrounds of Spanish-speaking children. Dialectal considerations and phonological patterns of typically developing children and children with highly unintelligible speech will be discussed. Additional topics will include information related to assessment, treatment, and school-based issues.

#5220: What Works in SSD Therapy: A Review of the Evidence

Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 12:00 pm EST – Elise Baker

CEUs/Hours Offered: ASHA/0.1 Intermediate, Professional; CASLPA/1.0

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This course will provide SLPs with an overview of the latest evidence-based intervention approaches for managing speech sound disorders (SSD) in children. The importance of aligning target selection approaches with specific interventions will be discussed. Treatment intensity options for a variety of intervention approaches will also be considered.

#5234: Enhancing Sibling Interactions for Children with Autism

Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 12:00 pm EST – Kathleen J. Abendroth

CEUs/Hours Offered: ASHA/0.1 Intermediate, Professional; CASLPA/1.0

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This course provides evidence-based research support for the inclusion of typically developing siblings into speech-language therapy settings for children with autism. A review of existing research on sibling interaction, factors that promote positive sibling interactions, and strategies for incorporating siblings into therapy will be discussed.

#5232: TBI: An Update on Assessment and Treatment

Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 12:00 pm EST – Angela Hein Ciccia

CEUs/Hours Offered: ASHA/0.1 Intermediate, Professional; CASLPA/1.0

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This course will provide an update on the current recommendations for the rehabilitation of cognitive-communication disorders that are a result of traumatic brain injury. The course will most specifically focus on assessment and treatment for young adults and adults that have experienced a moderate-severe TBI.

#5225: Stuttering Therapy: Overcoming the Impossible with Teens and Adults

Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 12:00 pm EST – Marilee Fini

CEUs/Hours Offered: ASHA/0.1 Intermediate, Professional; CASLPA/1.0

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That’s impossible! Often times when treating teens and adults who stutter, it is easy to feel this way. The following will be discussed: the role of counseling in stuttering therapy, designing an effective treatment plan and techniques for helping teens and adults who stutter with employment. By the conclusion of the course, participants will be empowered with ideas that will help them see the many possibilities for teens and adults who stutter!

#5224: Swallowing Issues in Individuals with Tracheostomy, Ventilator, and Respiratory Compromise

Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 12:00 pm EST – Lori Burkhead Morgan

CEUs/Hours Offered: ASHA/0.1 Intermediate, Professional; CASLPA/1.0

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The acts of swallowing and breathing share common neural and anatomical substrates and are highly coordinated functions. The speech pathologist must possess an understanding of how these interact and impact each other in order to thoroughly evaluate and treat patients with swallowing impairment. This course will address the basic interplay of respiration and swallowing in various conditions

#5254: EBP in Accent Modification: Understanding client needs and values

Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 12:00 pm EST – Amee P. Shah

CEUs/Hours Offered: ASHA/0.1 Intermediate, Professional; CASLPA/1.0

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This course uses a needs-based objective decision framework to identify the accent-related needs of clients who speak with nonstandard regional or foreign accents. Using quotes and video narratives of clients, listeners will be provided a range of attitudes, values, needs, and wants clients have around their accents. These attitudes and wants are not always predictable, and often, not identified or shared by clinicians. A broad range of research findings will also be presented to demonstrate the real-life challenges and obstacles related to speaking in nonstandard accents. Further, a clients’-needs-based framework that uses quantitative methods and statistically-tested stimuli is introduced in this course to ensure that clinician biases, society’s stereotypes, or employer’s discrimination are not the driving forces in accent-modification services. Instead, the framework shows how objective data and evidence based practice (EBP) can overcome and replace stereotypes and inadvertent discrimination.

#5213: Recognizing Individual and Cultural Differences in Supervision

Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 12:00 pm EST – Wren Newman

CEUs/Hours Offered: ASHA/0.1 Intermediate, Related; CASLPA/1.0

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The supervisory relationship is critical to the success of the supervisory process and the achievement of desired outcomes. Individual and cultural differences of the supervisee and the supervisor should be respected in order to assure a positive relationship. This session will provide strategies to assist in fostering a willingness to communicate openly relative to different perspectives and backgrounds, including cultural/linguistic, social roles, generational, and gender differences.

#5233: Winging It: One-year Case Study of Teacher-SLP Collaboration Discourse in Classroom-Based Therapy

Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 12:00 pm EST – Lara L. Wakefield

CEUs/Hours Offered: ASHA/0.1 Intermediate, Related; CASLPA/1.0

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This presentation examines an SLP's journey in delivering services in the classroom via a team-teaching model with a special educator and a regular educator over the course of a school year. This is a qualitative, 7-month longitudinal case-study of the SLP's roles, routines, and perceptions as a collaborative partner in inclusive service delivery. The results of the collaborative discourse that emerged are discussed. Practical implications related to the the types of discourse patterns that facilitated successful collaborations will be highlighted. Simple collaboration strategies such as asking clarification questions and learning how to negotiate the suggestions of other professionals will be highlighted.

#5261: Prospective Payment System (PPS) 2012

Gary Mertz

CEUs/Hours Offered: ASHA/0.1 Intermediate, Related; CASLPA/1.0

This course will summarize the changes to Prospective Payment System that were made effective October 1, 2011. The course will analyze the impact on facilities and providers and further provide strategies to use to minimize negative impacts.

#5236: Designing Optimal Learning Environments for Children with Developmental Disabilities, Autism, or Other Behavior Challenges

Vicki L. Turner | Carol L. Spears

CEUs/Hours Offered: ASHA/0.1 Introductory, Professional; CASLPA/1.0

Individuals with developmental disabilities, including autism, and those with behavioral challenges frequently display behaviors that disrupt the way they learn, communicate, and socialize. This article examines the benefits of organizing the environment to minimize these behaviors and to optimize opportunities for effective communication. It describes how to design a learning environment that will improve behavior, learning, communication, and social skills, including how speech-language pathologists can support communication skills through visual support strategies and symbolic communication systems.

  02/02  'Very well done'
  02/02  'Good info to consider in setting up environment and overview of methods to use f...'

#5231: Serving Children with Cochlear Implants in Rural School Settings

Amy C. Ogburn | Bettie B. Borton | Thomas E. Borton

CEUs/Hours Offered: ASHA/0.1 Intermediate, Professional; CASLPA/1.0

This article deals with practical suggestions for SLPs in public school systems who serve hearing impaired children with cochlear implants.

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#5258: Phonetically-consistent Approach to /r/ Remediation

Christine Ristuccia

CEUs/Hours Offered: ASHA/0.1 Intermediate, Professional; CASLPA/1.0

Frustrated with treating /r/ disorders? This course offers a new and refreshing approach to treat the most difficult of sounds. Backed with extensive research and field testing, a complete phonemic approach to evaluating and treating /r/ is presented based on the 32 different types of/r/. (This presentation will focus on "The Entire World of /r/" products and will not address related products.)

  02/01  'It offers a new structured and EFFECTIVE approach to /r/ remediation'
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  02/03  'Info was clear, concise and relevant for myself and many of the kids I work with'
  01/31  'It confirmed what I have read from the materials that I have already purchased a...'
  02/01  'It was good to have recommendations on how to best work with children who have d...'
  02/03  'great information'
  01/31  'The speaker gave a clear description with good examples of treatment and followe...'
  02/02  'clear, concise, practical solutions for therapy'
  02/03  'therapy examples'

#5245: AAC and Aphasia

Sarah E Wallace

CEUs/Hours Offered: ASHA/0.1 Intermediate, Professional; CASLPA/1.0

The purpose of this course is to enhance participants’ knowledge in the area of augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) and aphasia with particular emphasis on recent advancements in this area. Topics include new technologies, generalization of AAC strategies, and interventions focused on AAC.

  01/31  'Up to date information, and sharing of what has worked in clinical practice'
  01/31  'It was practical, well-presented, clinically relevant to my work, and introduced...'
  01/22  'The presenter was clear and coscise'
  01/30  'EXAMPLES AND SPECIFIC INFORMATION ABOUT ASSESSMENT'
  01/21  'coherent, logical, sequential, built knowledge base, built test administration b...'
  02/03  'Brisk, refreshing, encouraging, thought-provoking, and most importantly, applica...'
  01/21  'organized better than some others, clarity of presentation'
  02/01  'The Presenter was well organized and well informed on her topic'
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  01/31  'much info can be applied to younger aac users with other deficits'
  01/22  'the instructor was clear and professional with obvious teaching experience'
  01/30  'I learned several good strategies to use'