School Intervention And Collaboration In Schools CEU Courses for SLPs

Due to the amount of crossover between the professions, intense collaboration is often necessary between speech-language pathologists and board certified behavior analysts (BCBAs). This course discusses knowledge and skills related to applied behavior analysis (ABA) and provides SLPs with strategies for collaborating with BCBAs while prioritizing client-centered care.

This course provides an overview of the Cycles Phonological Remediation Approach for children with highly unintelligible speech. Discussion includes selection of optimal phonological patterns and targets, implementation and consideration of both a traditional and modified Cycles Approach, and group therapy strategies.

Teachers and administrators increasingly turn to school-based SLPs for intervention in executive functioning (EF) deficits. This course is directed toward clinicians working in schools (especially high schools) who have basic background knowledge about EF. It discusses EF domains and clinical presentation, types of treatment approaches, and how to plan and implement specific EF interventions.

The critical importance of phonemic awareness, especially for children with a history of speech and/or language delays, is discussed in this Fast Class. A variety of assessment and intervention activities to improve phonemic awareness are described.

This course describes how vision impacts learning, as well as common signs and symptoms of visual problems. It discusses the basics of visual screening, and provides an overview of visual treatment options, including glasses, vision therapy, and classroom recommendations and strategies for the teacher or therapist.

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 effective rapport building, communication, and collaboration skills that are necessary for team members in the public school setting to support and serve the needs of students with communication and language impairment. Steps, strategies and tools for achieving effective collaboration with parents, educators and other service providers are discussed.

Collaboration within the school setting is paramount to student success. This course examines the skills an SLP needs to be a confident collaborator with school teams.

This course describes qualitative and quantitative active intervention ingredients in relation to children with, or at risk of, developmental language delay (DLD). A framework for categorizing and organizing these ingredients is discussed and the literature regarding these ingredients is summarized for application in practice.

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.