CEU Courses for SLPs

While improving and advocating for the emotional and physical wellbeing of patients, healthcare workers frequently neglect their own. Specific symptoms of professional burnout, practical techniques for decreasing burnout, and helpful resources for healthcare providers are described in this course.

Information about building a trauma-informed culture in the workplace, including steps to prepare staff/professionals for providing trauma-responsive care to children and their families, is discussed in this course. Essential techniques and strategies for use in the classroom are provided, along with ways to help staff who may have experienced or are experiencing trauma.

This course, which is based on the textbook, the Word-Finding Intervention Program, Third Edition (WFIP-3), describes a comprehensive word-finding intervention model. Specifically, word-finding retrieval strategies, word-finding self-advocacy instruction, and word-finding-based differentiated instruction and assessment procedures are discussed, along with word-finding lesson plans, long-term goals/benchmarks, and progress monitoring for preschool/primary, intermediate, and secondary students with word-finding difficulties.

The differences between management and leadership, and the importance of leadership in health care, are described in this course. Differing leadership styles and ways to develop leadership skills are also discussed.

This course describes the stages, causes, symptoms, and consequences of compassion fatigue and chronic stress. It also introduces tools for assessing levels of stress and strategies for preventing/minimizing the development of compassion fatigue in the work setting.

Imperative education and resources to be provided by professionals to parents during the delicate time of identification of hearing loss is discussed in this course. Stages of grief, facilitating shared decision-making for communication as a family, and significant roles to know and consider are covered.

Clinicians juggle many processes and relationships to balance high-quality services. Stages of grief and the possible physical and psychological impacts that may be experienced by parents of children with special needs are described in this course. Relevant research and ways to better support parents are also discussed.

Burnout, compassion fatigue, and secondary trauma in the helping professions are discussed in this course. Protective factors and self-care strategies that can reduce stress and allow healing are described, along with the role of managers and organizations in promoting resilience.

The basics of asthma and anaphylaxis management in young children are discussed in this course, including how to recognize asthma symptoms, administer medications, and reduce asthma triggers in school and home environments. Key components of Asthma Action Plans, along with how to implement them, are reviewed.

Seizures and seizure management in young children, including types of seizures, causes, interventions, and safety considerations, are discussed in this course. Epilepsy treatment and family education are also addressed.