CEU Courses for SLPs Search: 'Kelly Vess'

This is Part 4 of a four-part series. Children with autism have stories to tell. This course describes the impact strong storytelling skills have on a child’s attention, executive functioning, and language abilities. How to use multimodal cues in the context of task-oriented movement activities and effective scaffolding of storytelling skills are addressed.

This is Part 3 of a four-part series. It is estimated that approximately 80% of children with autism present with significant, generalized motor delays. This course describes how SLPs can integrate movement into their therapy sessions to treat the whole child while improving non-verbal and verbal communication skills.

This is Part 2 of a four-part series. It’s estimated that 25-30% of children with autism will never develop fluent speech. This course describes speech development, neurological issue that can interfere with it, and research-based strategies that can be implemented immediately to improve speech outcomes for clients on the autism spectrum.

This is Part 1 of a four-part series. Pivotal foundations that should be addressed early in autism are described in this course. Specifically, building rapport based on the child’s unique interests, developing open channels of communication with parents, writing goals, and implementing Augmentative/Alternative Communication (AAC) to empower children are discussed.

This is Part 4 of a four-part series. Current research on the socio-emotional, literacy, executive function, and narrative challenges in children with developmental language disorder (DLD), as well as the use of movement to accelerate storytelling skills, is described in this course. Evidence-based strategies to improve literacy and narrative skills through multi-modal cueing, purposeful play, and story re-enactment are presented.

This is Part 3 of a four-part series. Current research related to the importance of phonological awareness to literacy skill development is discussed in this course. Evidence-based, multi-modal strategies for improving pivotal phonological awareness skills, while maintaining focus on the child’s individualized therapy goals, are described.

This is Part 2 of a four-part series. The reasons that print knowledge matters and ways that SLPs can improve it are discussed in this course. Components of print knowledge, challenges with print knowledge and their prevalence in autism, and evidence-based, multi-modal print referencing strategies for immediate use in clinical practice are addressed.

This is Part 1 of a four-part series. Early linguistic indicators and risk factors that correlate with a greater likelihood of persistent literacy challenges are discussed in this course. Evidence-based screening tools for preschool and early elementary-aged children are also described.

This is Part 4 of a four-part series. This course describes five maxims of evidence-based practice for speech sound disorders. Specifically, it discusses how to create optimally effective therapy sessions by incorporating multimodal cueing, errorless scaffolding, complex treatment targets, distributed learning, and activity-based intervention within the context of movement activities.

This is Part 3 of a four-part series. Children with speech sound disorders are at a greater risk for language, literacy, executive function, and behavioral challenges. This course demonstrates a step-by-step process to create multi-faceted activities, including goal-directed movement activities, that efficiently treat the whole child in order to optimize progress in therapy.