Providing a prognosis for recovery for individuals with aphasia is an important part of clinical care, but accurate prediction is often limited. This course will discuss factors that influence recovery of language function following onset of aphasia, and biographical, behavioral, and medical variables that may aid provision of a prognosis.

This course is part of the 2017 Nancy McKinley Lecture Series, Supporting Young Learners with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Sometimes the "little things" can cause the biggest problems for those with autism. This course will teach participants how to use visual strategies to help avoid behavior problems so students can achieve success in life activities.

This course is part of the 2017 Nancy McKinley Lecture Series, Supporting Young Learners with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Inaccurate diagnoses of autism are prevalent due to symptoms that are shared with other disorders. This course will identify the differential diagnostic indicators to help clinicians know when a child presents with autism.

This course will provide the learner with information about the elements of critical thinking and examples of critical thinking questions as they relate to supervision. Positive outcomes of critical thinking and self-reflection when working with supervisees, mentees and even patients will be addressed.

Alternative Payment Models, known as APMs, are alternatives to traditional fee-for-service reimbursement. This course will explore current payment reform structures and the impacts on post-acute care of moving from volume-based fee-for-service models to outcomes-based reimbursement.

This course will review neuromuscular electrical stimulation (NMES). Devices specific to dysphagia rehabilitation as well as current research related to NMES will be discussed.

This course will review evidence for hippocampal contributions to language use and processing. We will also discuss the implications of this work for understanding cognitive-communication disorders in TBI and Alzheimer’s disease.

Bilingualism (and multilingualism) has become the norm rather than the exception within North America. Using the World Health Organization's International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) as a basis, this course provides theoretical and practical information and resources for supporting SLPs’ clinical and cultural competence for working with children from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.

This course guides the participant through tips on how to prevent elopement in individuals with autism, along with how to create a plan if a child wanders from a safe place. Numerous resources for safety-related materials are provided.

In this course, participants will learn the scope and sequence for systematic language instruction for students with autism and other complex communication disorders. Videos and images will be used to illustrate these concepts.