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Articles for SLP CEUs
Service Delivery: Thinking Outside the Box
August 30, 2017
We are going to be talking about a variety of different service delivery options that can be used in your school-based practice. I love the current job that I have because I get to interact with so ma... Read More
School Intervention and Collaboration in Schools
Functional Treatment for Acquired Brain Injury in Inpatient Rehabilitation
August 30, 2017
First, we will start with the mechanisms and symptoms of acquired brain injury (ABI). ABI is a true health crisis in the United States. Statistics show that in 2013, there were 2.5 million people who... Read More
Veterans Affairs (VA) courses
Research Watch Report, Issue 4
August 23, 2017
Children who enter school speaking a non-mainstream dialect must quickly learn to dialect shift (a.k.a “code-switch”). Similar to bilingual children, they have two sets of syntactic, semantic, mor... Read More
Cultural and Linguistic Diversity Language Disorder(s) Research Watch Report School Intervention and Collaboration in Schools
Research Watch Report, Issue 3
July 19, 2017
Reading programs generally feature many components, any of which could contribute to teaching literacy skills. The Orton-Gillingham approach (upon which several popular reading programs are based) is... Read More
Apraxia Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) Language Disorder(s) Literacy and Phonological Awareness Research Watch Report School Intervention and Collaboration in Schools Stuttering
Promoting the 3:1 Caseload Model Effectively
July 11, 2017
This text-based course is a transcript of the webinar, Promoting the 3:1 Caseload Model Effectively, presented by Marva Mount, MA, CCC-SLP.Learning ObjectivesAfter this course, participants will be ab... Read More
School Intervention and Collaboration in Schools
Research Watch Report, Issue 2
June 26, 2017
Peer Communication Support for Teen AAC Users This article identified a method for increasing peer communication in middle-school AAC users. The treatment program consisted of three pre-interventio... Read More
Language Disorder(s) Research Watch Report School Intervention and Collaboration in Schools
SLP Considerations in Pain Management
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June 21, 2017
Epidemiology of PainThe Ethics and Health Policy Related to Pain emphasizes that medical professionals (including allied health professionals) must ask the following questions to effectively manage pa... Read More
Professional Issues Veterans Affairs (VA) courses
20Q: Early Childhood Stuttering: Background and Assessment
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June 14, 2017
As the first article for the new monthly 20Q (20 Questions) series for SpeechPathology.com, I am delighted that Scott Yaruss, PhD, CCC-SLP, BCS-F, F-ASHA and Nina A. Reardon-Reeves, MS, CCC-SLP, BCS-F... Read More
20Q with Ann Kummer Stuttering
Pearson's EBP Briefs: Auditory-Verbal Therapy as an Intervention Approach for Children Who are Deaf: A Review of the Evidence
June 12, 2017
Luanne is a mother of three children ages six, four, and five months. Her youngest child, Olivia, failed her newborn hearing screening and was later diagnosed with a bilateral sensorineural hearing lo... Read More
Hearing and Hearing Loss School Intervention and Collaboration in Schools
Pearson's EBP Briefs: Do Patients Treated for Voice Therapy With Telepractice Show Similar Changes in Voice Outcome Measures as Patients Treated Face-to-Face?
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June 1, 2017
Clinical ScenarioLB is a 47-year-old singer who performs in a nightclub three nights a week for about eight hours each night. He developed concerns with his voice characterized by complaints of vocal... Read More
Telehealth and Telepractice Voice and Resonance Disorders
Pearson's EBP Briefs: An Evidence-Based Approach to Teach Inferential Language During Interactive Storybook Reading With Young Children
June 1, 2017
Kate is a speech-language pathologist who works in an elementary school serving many children from low-income families. As part of her practice, she works with kindergarten children, many who have lim... Read More
Language Disorder(s) Literacy and Phonological Awareness School Intervention and Collaboration in Schools
Our Aging Patients: Ethical Decision-making With the Aging Population
June 1, 2017
Ethics is currently a hot topic in the field. According to Kumer and colleagues, ethics is defined as a moral philosophy or a set of moral principles that determine what is right, good, virtuous, true... Read More
Ethics Veterans Affairs (VA) courses
Our Aging Patients: The Aging Swallow
May 23, 2017
Presbyphagia is the decline in swallowing that is associated with normal aging, and normal aging changes are not considered a disorder. However, when you add in secondary factors, multiple medical com... Read More
Dysphagia (Adult) Veterans Affairs (VA) courses
Our Aging Patients: Effects of Aging on Communication
May 19, 2017
As we discuss the effects of aging on communication, we will address voice, speech, language, and cognition. Normal Aging FactorsThere are several factors associated with the aging voice (a.k.a presby... Read More
Veterans Affairs (VA) courses
Our Aging Patients: How to Handle End of Life Conversations
May 3, 2017
Ethical Considerations for End of LifeThe University of Washington Department of Bioethics says that there are four topics by which every problem in ethics should be judged. I call them “the WHs,”... Read More
Veterans Affairs (VA) courses
Social-Pragmatic Language Group Treatment for Adolescents with Language Impairments and Psychiatric Diagnoses
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May 1, 2017
This seminar is the third in a series of presentations for SLPs working with children and adolescents with social-emotional-behavioral disorders. The first course covers some of the mental health diag... Read More
Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) Language Disorder(s) School Intervention and Collaboration in Schools
Burnout Be Gone: Finding Wholeness Again
April 24, 2017
I became interested in the concept of “burnout” because, as a speech pathologist and a coach, I feel like my mission is to help people find what is inside of them that can help them to live their... Read More
Professional Issues Veterans Affairs (VA) courses
Vanderbilt SLP Journal Club: Differentiating Stuttering Persistence and Recovery
April 19, 2017
This is a very exciting time to talk about this topic, especially in the last few years. More and more researchers are obtaining information about what is happening in young children who stutter over... Read More
Stuttering
Research Watch Report, Issue 1
April 14, 2017
The following is the December 2016 issue of research reviews for pediatric and school-based SLPs, written by Meredith Harold, PhD, CCC-SLP. Each month, Dr. Harold accesses the top 50 research journals... Read More
Language Disorder(s) Research Watch Report School Intervention and Collaboration in Schools
Decision Making for Alternate Nutrition and Hydration, Part 2
March 30, 2017
This course is a transcript of the webinar, Decision Making for Alternate Nutrition and Hydration, Part 2, presented by Denise Dougherty, MA, SLP. Learning Objectives List at least 3 criteria utilize... Read More
Dysphagia (Adult) Veterans Affairs (VA) courses