CEU Courses for SLPs

Because America is growing more diverse, cultural awareness has become more vital for day-to-day success. This course will discuss four strategies to help participants develop a mindset that will facilitate a culturally-sensitive environment both personally and professionally, regardless of work setting.

This course provides a toolbox of strategies for choosing and using books for virtual shared book reading. Specific book suggestions and tips to gain and sustain children's attention, and to promote engagement with both the child and caregivers, will be discussed.

This is Part 2 of a two-part series. This course will apply the science of decision-making to case studies of ethical dilemmas that speech-language pathologists may experience, by providing an ethical decision-making framework and strategies for mitigating certain adverse influences on decision-making.

This course will provide an overview of various assessments that can be implemented clinically to increase our understanding of the comprehensive needs and important skills of adults with cochlear implants. It will explain how patient performance across a broad range of measures can guide individualized rehabilitation interventions and plans of care in order to optimize outcomes.

This is Part 2 of the four-part series, Play is FUNdamental. This course will explore the three major aspects of play: motor, social, and language. A focus on understanding the intersection of motor, social and language components of play will create the foundation on which intervention can be planned. Content can be applied to children as well as older individuals with developmental disabilities.

This course provides information regarding some of the barriers that minorities face in the healthcare setting. It also discusses ideas for improving patient-centered care for diverse populations, and for supporting coworkers of diverse backgrounds.

This is Part 1 of the four-part series, Play is FUNdamental. This course builds upon a developmental perspective of child play behavior. Core principles of human physical development, as they relate to child engagement in play, will be presented. Stages of language/cognitive play and their correlations to stages of communication intent and language development will be discussed. Participants will learn how to observe behaviors in order to assess play and language in children and older individuals with developmental delays.

This course will discuss the important role that healthcare professionals serve for older adults at higher risk for COVID19. It will provide resources and strategies, including infection control measures, that can be implemented with patients and caregivers while addressing activities of daily living (ADLs), safety, quality of life, mental health, and other areas that may be directly impacted by this new virus.

This course will focus on cognitive-communication intervention strategies for various dementia presentations and will provide a review of evidence-based treatment. Behavioral frameworks along with their rationales will be introduced and applied across several dementia types and mild, moderate and severe levels of impairment.

This course will address the theoretical underpinnings and research base related to differential diagnosis and treatment of articulation and phonological deficits in children with speech sound disorders. Special considerations for how to tailor evaluation and intervention to meet the needs of school-age children will be discussed.