New research and a fresh outlook by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) confirm that screen-time for young children is rapidly increasing at younger ages. This course will provide strategies for staying current on this rapidly evolving topic and share tools for supporting caregivers of today's youngest and most vulnerable media users.

This is Part 4 of a four-part series on severe phonological disorders. Selecting multiple targets and anticipating rapid change across all sound errors requires a different method of writing and documenting goals and objectives. This course will examine how to establish a baseline for general speech intelligibility, and how to write goals and objectives that can be quickly and easily measured to document progress.

This course will discuss the social thinking difficulties in adolescents with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) that create barriers to academic achievement. It will also describe tools that SLPs can use in collaboration with classroom teachers to help students with ASD overcome these challenges.

This course will briefly discuss foundations of AAC assessment and review a variety of AAC applications for the iPad. Ways to use the iPad for AAC success will also be discussed.

This course will review the phonological relations between speech sound production and literacy skills such as word decoding and spelling. The overlap between speech sound disorders and reading impairments, such as dyslexia, will be highlighted.

This course examines the loss of identity in aphasia and essential factors in renegotiating identity post-stroke. The role of discourse and strategies to facilitate positive social identity are discussed.

This Vanderbilt SLP Journal Club course will discuss neurodiversity - the idea that disorders like autism should be considered a normal human variation - and how it affects the practice of speech-language pathologists with their pediatric and adult clients. Theories and strategies, as well as professional and personal impact, will be addressed.

Although there is a growing body of literature supporting evidence-based methods of dysphagia treatment, clinicians continue to utilize outdated and ineffective approaches to intervention for patients with dysphagia. This course will review current research on swallowing rehabilitation and discuss the implications for performing outdated or ineffective treatment.

This is Part 1 of a two-part series on augmentative/alternative communication (AAC) and adults with developmental disabilities. This course will provide a basic overview of AAC, assessment, communication goals, barriers, and key factors to consider when recommending a communication system for adults with developmental disabilities.

This is Part 1 of the five-part series, Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE): The Effects of Childhood Trauma on Communication. This course will provide a brief review of conventional and expanded adverse childhood experiences and discuss their implications. Specifically, the impact of ACEs on brain and behavior and the importance of this information to clinical practice for speech-language pathologists will be described. This course is presented in partnership with the American Board of Child Language and Language Disorders (ABCLLD).