Cultural And Linguistic Diversity CEU Courses for SLPs

Utilizing a bilingual framework, this course explores the implementation of a Cycles Approach for highly unintelligible bilingual (Spanish-English) speakers as well as speakers of several other languages. Topics include critical components of a bilingual approach, treatment targets for Spanish-English and multilingual speakers, and strategies for working with multilingual families.

This course describes characteristics of twice-exceptional students with different disabilities. It discusses the SLP's role in identifying and advocating for these students - particularly those from minority and/or low-income backgrounds - and educating other team members, in order to maximize therapy outcomes and foster educational and personal success.

This course is the third in a three-part series that addresses diversity, equity, and inclusion in healthcare. This course focuses on both the challenges to and benefits of equitable access to healthcare services, as well as the impact of implicit bias on access to and quality of service. In addition, tools for facilitating and implementing effective diversity and inclusion initiatives are discussed.

This course is the second in a 3-part series that addresses diversity, equity, & inclusion in healthcare. It focuses on disabilities and the impact of implicit bias on service delivery, and discusses the importance of the representation of people with disabilities as health care professionals and how this affects the quality of patient care. In addition, tools for facilitating and implementing effective diversity and inclusion initiatives are provided.

Culture and spirituality are two of the most significant factors that influence the therapist-client relationship and the outcomes of the therapy process. This course examines the aspects of culture and spirituality that are frequently not discussed but help the therapy practitioner understand, relate to, and serve the client more effectively, resulting in better outcomes. It includes discussion of the HOPE questionnaire to assess spirituality.

This course is the first in a 3-part series that addresses diversity, equity, and inclusion in healthcare. This course focuses on mental health care and the impact of implicit bias in service delivery. In addition, tools for facilitating and implementing effective diversity and inclusion initiatives are discussed, along with their challenges and positive effects on outcomes.

This course discusses the importance of considering dialect when there is suspicion of a disability, key tools for reliable assessments, and the difference between code-switching and code-meshing. It will identify key considerations related to literacy development that should be shared with school staff, in order to improve reading outcomes for all students.

This course provides clinicians with culturally responsive assessment strategies to help determine whether an AAE-speaking student presents with a speech and/or language disorder. Beginning with a brief exploration of cultural humility, this course discusses how clinicians can become more culturally competent when assessing AAE-speaking students.

This course presents the Convergence Evidence Framework (CEF; Castilla-Earls et al., 2020) for the assessment of dual language learners. Assessment tools that are compatible with the CEF are also discussed, along with interpretation of testing results.

This course addresses legal and ethical guidelines for appropriate inclusion of, and collaboration with, qualified interpreters in healthcare and educational settings. Important qualities and qualifications of an interpreter are discussed, as well as effective strategies that providers should employ when using interpreters in their practice and ways to resolve common dilemmas.