Professional Issues CEU Courses for SLPs

This course discusses fundamental concepts of descriptive statistics that SLPs, as informed consumers, must understand in order to interpret and summarize the results of norm-referenced, standardized assessment tools. In addition, cultural variables that can impact SLP assessments are identified.

Often, successful outcomes and sustained health and wellness for patients largely depend on the compliance and performance of a caregiver. This course describes specific symptoms of caregiver burnout, practical techniques to decrease their burnout, caregiver resources, and billable interventions and goals that can be incorporated into the plan of care.

Collaborative service delivery can often lead to communicating in difficult situations for many speech-language pathologists. Whether the SLP is communicating with colleagues or families, emotionally-charged situations can lead to communication breakdown. This course provides a rationale and strategies for how to communicate more effectively.

This course covers practical steps and cybersecurity best practices to help protect professionals and their patients’ protected health information. Recognizing malicious emails and websites, selecting strong passwords, protecting smartphones, and securing sensitive data are discussed.

This course includes one hour of content on each of the following topics: 1) ethical concepts and decision-making; 2) universal safety precautions, including the Occupational Safety & Health Administration's (OSHA) bloodborne pathogens standard, and 3) patient confidentiality and the Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act (HIPAA).

This course reviews the bloodborne pathogens standard as published by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). It discusses what clinicians need to know in their place of employment, including employer compliance requirements for protection and appropriate infection control and documentation practices.

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 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.

Master skills to implement in your practice immediately with continued Master Class. The purpose of this course is to provide strategies to occupational therapists and speech-language pathologists on how to best collaborate with each other in order to provide high-quality services to children with disabilities. Topics discussed include progress monitoring, goal writing, and differences between medical and educational therapy settings.

Receive an overview of FERPA, including practical advice regarding the regulation of FERPA by local education agencies (LEAs). Also learn ways in which this federal law affects your practice in service to schools.