CEU Courses for SLPs

This course provides an overview of the components of healthcare documentation and International Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision (ICD-10) coding. Laws related to medical records, including Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) requirements, are also reviewed.

This course describes the shared role of supervision between SLPs and SLP Assistants (SLPAs). It discusses scope of practice for each and provides practical supervisory tools and strategies, such as needs scales, as well as case examples.

This course discusses common lung conditions related to prematurity. Practical clinical applications are addressed, including successful positive-pressure ventilation techniques, neuroprotection, long-term disease management, and improved interdisciplinary team communications.

The critical importance of phonemic awareness, especially for children with a history of speech and/or language delays, is discussed in this Fast Class. A variety of assessment and intervention activities to improve phonemic awareness are described.

Interactions between frailty, sarcopenia, and an aging swallow can result in significant swallowing difficulties in geriatric clients. This course discusses the relationships between swallowing, frailty, and aging, as well as additional contributing factors, and describes interventions to manage and possibly prevent sarcopenic dysphagia.

This course provides an overview of the neuroscience underlying sensation and perception, as well as its application to learning and treatment. It discusses a client’s ability to sense and perceive details of therapy tasks as critical components for adaptability and plasticity of the human brain, which in turn improves functional outcomes.

Reflective practice is important in clinical education and ASHA encourages “a lifelong commitment to self-evaluation,” but information regarding specific tools for the SLP is limited. This course discusses effective verbal and written reflection practices and presents Gibb’s Reflective Cycle, an analytic tool that can be used in supervisory practice. Case studies are also included.

This course presents the most up-to-date evidence regarding the identification and management of atypical disfluency. It discusses types of atypical dysfluency as well as application of current findings to assessment and treatment, including treatment strategies.

Many therapists understand the evidence-based treatment approaches for dementia, but are unsure how to write an effective goal to support these. This course describes how to select treatments and write goals according to stage of decline, patient-specific needs, and intended discharge location.

This course discusses differential diagnosis of childhood apraxia of speech (CAS) and dysarthria in children, including similarities and differences in subsystem impairments and speech features between the two disorders. A freely available diagnostic tool, the Profile for Childhood Apraxia of speech and Dysarthria (ProCAD), is described, and video examples and case studies are provided to demonstrate its use and provide practice opportunities.