Cultural And Linguistic Diversity CEU Courses for SLPs

This course discusses Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex, and Asexual (LGBTQIA+) health disparities, demographics, and terminology, as well as key strategies for bringing high-quality care to LGBTQIA+ people at health centers and other health care organizations. Inclusive and effective communication with LGBTQIA+ patients is also addressed.

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.

This course explores emotional intelligence (EQ) and how to "plug in" and use it in situations that go awry with parents of clients. Specific strategies for handling difficult situations and de-escalating arguments are discussed.

This course focuses on best practice in the assessment and treatment of bilingual aphasia by speech-language pathologists. Recommended practices are contrasted against common mistakes made by clinicians working with bilingual patients with aphasia. Implementation of best practices are modeled through case studies.

This course is designed for health professionals who desire to develop a culturally inclusive mindset to inform and enhance their collaborative work with diverse populations. It discusses the many dimensions of cultural influences, and self & organizational assessment tools and models that participants can apply to begin action in their professional lives to create a culturally inclusive mindset.

Speech-language pathologists serve children from a variety of cultural and linguistic backgrounds who have language practices and development that differ from mainstream culture in the United States. This course discusses these differences in cultural populations such as multilingual and non-mainstream dialect-speaking children, in order to better inform assessment and intervention methods in our field.

Children draw upon cognitive resources to tell stories. This course provides an in-depth discussion of this cognition-narration connection and research relevant to this topic. Participants are taught how to analyze cognitive aspects of children’s narrative language and apply this information to management of children on their caseloads.

This course uses hypothetical case studies depicting realistic situations to provide participants with a foundation in bilingual and second language development and examples of typical and atypical development. The scientific basis and theories of learning multiple languages in various situations, including international adoptions, are presented, and contrasted with myths about bilingualism.

Implicit biases affect how people perceive, evaluate, and react to others. This course will provide an overview of implicit biases, including what they are, where they come from, and their effects. Strategies will be discussed that can reduce the influence of implicit biases, in order to allow healthcare professionals to better meet the needs of those they serve.

This 2-part series is geared to public school SLPs who serve English Learners with potential language impairment. Part 1 describes research-based, practical strategies, such as gathering thorough case histories and utilizing universal indicators of language impairment, as part of a comprehensive pre-assessment process designed to help SLPs differentiate between language impairment and language difference in English learners with environmental challenges such as poverty, limited schooling experience, and lack of home literacy experience.