Articulation, Phonology, And Speech Sound Disorders CEU Courses for SLPs

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 course, which is based on the textbook Evaluating & Enhancing Children's Phonological Systems: Research & Theory to Practice by Barbara W. Hodson, discusses the knowledge and skills needed to plan and implement evaluation and optimal treatment for children with highly unintelligible speech. Topics also include phonological development/acquisition and current challenges in this area of our field.

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 is Part 4 of a four-part series. This course describes five maxims of evidence-based practice for speech sound disorders. Specifically, it discusses how to create optimally effective therapy sessions by incorporating multimodal cueing, errorless scaffolding, complex treatment targets, distributed learning, and activity-based intervention within the context of movement activities.

This is Part 3 of a four-part series. Children with speech sound disorders are at a greater risk for language, literacy, executive function, and behavioral challenges. This course demonstrates a step-by-step process to create multi-faceted activities, including goal-directed movement activities, that efficiently treat the whole child in order to optimize progress in therapy.

This is Part 2 of a four-part series. This course focuses on selecting optimal treatment targets for pediatric speech sound disorders. It discusses dynamic stimulability assessment, selection of complex targets and linguistic contexts in order to target multiple phonological processes, and goal writing. Video clips and case studies are presented.

This is Part 1 of a four-part series. This course describes best practices for completing speech sound disorder evaluations at the preschool level. It will discuss how to analyze case histories to identify risk factors, and synthesize results of connected speech samples, standardized speech assessments, and diadochokinesis measures in order to differentially diagnose speech sound disorders.

Using complexity as a guideline for careful selection of phonologic targets can support the re-organization of a child’s speech sound system. This 20Q discusses characteristics and components of the child's phonological system and of stimuli that should be considered when selecting targets, and how to apply the complexity approach via practical therapy strategies.

The issue of whether non-speech oral motor treatments (NSOMTs) should be used in speech therapy is still controversial. This course provides a quick overview of non-speech oral motor movements, and discusses statistics regarding the usage of this treatment approach by clinicians, the evidence related to NSOMTs for a few clinical areas, and suggestions for further reading.

The DIRFloortime® framework can be used not only with children with autism, but with a wide variety of ages and diagnoses. This 4-hour master class describes DIRFloortime principles and concepts such as Functional Emotional Developmental Capacities (FEDCs) and relationship-based intervention. Case studies provide examples of goals and therapy activities, including virtual experiences, for various populations.