Elder abuse and neglect and child abuse and neglect are harsh realities. This course will identify the physical, clinical, and behavioral indicators of physical, emotional, and sexual abuse needed to identify and report to appropriate agencies. Participants will gain an improved awareness of warning signs of abuse, the clinician's role in reporting abuse, and the steps for reporting abuse and getting proper assistance.

Many of the assessment instruments we use are norm-referenced tests that are standardized. There are certain statistical properties needed to understand the psychometric criteria of the tests, which is part of being an informed consumer. This course will help SLPs understand fundamental concepts of descriptive statistics so they can interpret test scores correctly and summarize quantitative data about their clients or patients.

This is Part 5 of a five-part series, Current Best Practices in the Evaluation and Management of Childhood Apraxia of Speech (CAS): A Multidimensional Approach. This course will review the evidence showing a relationship between early speech-language disorders such as CAS and later reading and writing difficulties. Intervention for CAS that integrates support for reading and writing skills will be discussed.

This is Part 4 of a five-part series, Current Best Practices in the Evaluation and Management of Childhood Apraxia of Speech (CAS): A Multidimensional Approach. This course will focus on the use of augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) as a support for children with apraxia of speech. Evidence-based treatment techniques with AAC will be described.

This is Part 3 of a five part series, Current Best Practices in the Evaluation and Management of Childhood Apraxia of Speech (CAS): A Multidimensional Approach. Case studies will be used to illustrate several considerations in treatment of school-age children with CAS. Strategies for supporting acquisition of later developing phonemes, increasingly complex phoneme sequences, prosody, and morphology will be addressed.

This is Part 2 of a five part series, Current Best Practices in the Evaluation and Management of Childhood Apraxia of Speech (CAS): A Multidimensional Approach. This course will cover the foundational principles, method, and evidence to support the Rapid Syllable Transition treatment approach. Variations on this approach will also be discussed.

This is Part 1 of a five part series, Current Best Practices in the Evaluation and Management of Childhood Apraxia of Speech (CAS): A Multidimensional Approach. CAS is a motor speech disorder that challenges many speech language pathologists in terms of how to diagnose it, as well as how to treat it. This course will provide information on the nature of CAS and what to include in the assessment to allow the clinician to be more confident in his/her diagnosis.

The use of nonspeech oral motor exercises (NSOME) to change speech productions for children with speech sound disorders continues to be discussed and debated by researchers and clinicians. This course will provide an update on the controversy and will include information on the logic, theory and evidence related to why NSOME should not be used in therapy for this disorder.

Childhood Apraxia of Speech (CAS) is a motor speech disorder that challenges many speech language pathologists in terms of how to diagnose it, as well as how to treat it. This 20Q article will provide information on what to include in the assessment that will allow the clinician to be more confident in his/her diagnosis. It will also focus on where to begin treatment and how to incorporate phonological awareness into speech therapy.

This is Part 5 of a five-part series. This course will discuss how considerations such as coverage (i.e., which sounds are tested in which positions of words), phonological processing, and dialect can impact standardized test selection. A brief case study will be used to illustrate the considerations discussed throughout the series. (Part 1: Course 8096, Part 2: Course 8097, Part 3: Course 8101, Part 4: Course 8102)