School Intervention And Collaboration In Schools CEU Courses for SLPs

This course describes the importance of building on the communication skills of adolescents and teenagers to prepare them for the communication demands of high school, college, and the workforce. It identifies areas of communication that can be targeted and discusses delivery methods that can be integrated into the classroom in collaboration with classroom teachers.

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 provides an overview of contemporary considerations in pediatric augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) service delivery for speech-language pathologists and related professionals. Scope of practice and client profile information are covered, along with key topics in AAC assessment and intervention.

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.

Students who have multiple disabilities often have difficulty with pragmatic language, especially for workforce preparation. The ability to self-monitor interactions as they happen is essential for success in various community settings but is difficult to teach. This webinar discusses using storyboards and real-time video as tools to model social language and behavior, and to develop self-monitoring skills.

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 discusses systematic, effective ways to reduce speech sound errors within a Response to Intervention (RtI) framework. It provides strategies for deciding whether, and at what level, to enroll a child in speech treatment, and for supporting phonologic learning and monitoring progress in the general education setting. A successful three-tiered model of intervention at the elementary school level is also presented.

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 discusses the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) and Section 504 requirements for determining eligibility for services, as contrasted with clinical identification of a communication disorder. It addresses the disproportionate identification of certain racial-ethnic groups as eligible for special education, as well as recent recommendations from the U.S. Department of Education regarding students with long-term Covid.

Children with communication disorders may spend less than 1% of their waking hours in actual speech-language therapy, so every moment of therapy matters. This course discusses concepts of frequency, intensity and dosage, and presents a variety of easy-to-implement strategies and activities for maximizing therapy responses in order to expedite student progress.