This course is geared toward SLPs who provide services to children from low-income backgrounds and their families. The course shares practical strategies for helping these children increase their language skills, both oral and literate, as well as increase their executive functioning skills, for a more successful future.

Children with autism struggle with social engagement. Given Western society’s emphasis on academic learning and technology, a perfect storm is brewing with implications for connectedness to the social world. This course will discuss the obstacles technology can present to social engagement, and strategies to train parents to use technology to build functional communication skills.

Although counseling is an integral component of stuttering therapy, many speech-language pathologists have received little to no formal counseling training. The purpose of this course is to provide an overview of various counseling theories, principles and techniques that can be integrated into stuttering therapy. Attendees will gain a basic understanding of how to practice theory-driven counseling in order to help children and adults who stutter manage negative or undesired life experiences associated with their stuttering. An overview of stuttering treatment for older children and adults will also be provided.

Speech Language Pathologists are often asked to make recommendations for safe swallowing of medications for patients with dysphagia, but have limited information about pharmacodynamics. This course will provide clinicians with the information they need to understand and manage swallowing-related medication effects, identify potential impacts of food and thickener on medication effectiveness, and prevent medication errors in their clients with dysphagia.

When working with young children who stutter, it can be difficult to determine which children need treatment and which children will recover without formal intervention. This course will discuss risk factors for young children who stutter that help determine the treatment plan following a comprehensive evaluation.

This course will provide resources and tools for promoting effective supervision of SLPAs in a variety of settings. The program will elevate supervisory skills in an effort to maximize the effectiveness of supervisors and SLPAs, as well as evaluating the performance of SLPAs.

Pearson's EBP Briefs are case-based courses designed to assist with everyday decision-making in clinical practice. This case examined the question, “Would a child with FXS benefit more from phonologically-based reading instruction or whole-word training to improve reading skills?” The related literature search & analysis, along with the resultant clinical decision & application to clinical practice, will also be discussed. A relevant assessment tool for this case is the Kaufman Test of Educational Achievement, Third Edition Brief Form (KTEA™-3 Brief).

This course provides information on the status of simulations within the field of Communication Sciences and Disorders. It provides an overview of types of simulations and possible uses based on program needs.

As SLPs, we sometimes have students that are not motivated to attend speech therapy, so what do we do? This session will address ideas to motivate the unmotivated, and what to do if motivation cannot be found. What factors do we consider related to dismissal from services, and how do we ethically handle this dilemma?

This course provides a brief overview of narrative and conversational discourse. Emphasis is placed on the importance of discourse in patient-centered care and various approaches to incorporating discourse in aphasia rehabilitation.