CEU Courses for SLPs

This course provides an overview of the Neurodiversity Movement as defined by the movement’s Self-Advocates. It discusses history of the movement, important terminology, and goals, and describes neurodiversity-affirming therapy practices for ally service providers.

This course describes effective rapport building, communication, and collaboration skills that are necessary for team members to support and serve the needs of students with communication impairments in both regular and special education classrooms in the public schools. Collaboration models, benefits and challenges, and strategies for working with parents, educators and other service providers are discussed.

This course provides an overview of the psychosocial impact of aphasia, with particular attention to depression and anxiety as well as barriers to accessing mental health services. The importance of interdisciplinary collaboration between speech-language pathologists and mental health providers, and of supports such as stepped psychological care, peer befriending, support groups, and communication partner training, is also discussed.

Montessori is based on the principles of free choice and purposeful activity and focuses on the well-being of the whole person, including physical, spiritual, social, mental, and emotional needs. This course describes how SLPs can utilize functional goals and language-based activities to incorporate key components of the Montessori philosophy into therapy with older adults.

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 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.

This podcast discusses a general framework to use when planning small group therapy that focuses on play and social skills. It describes assessment of social skills and specific social activities that can be modified for autistic learners.

Assessments are necessary for understanding the skill set of the learner, setting goals, and making meaningful progress, but the assessment of autistic students can be challenging. This podcast describes strategies and specific tools for formal, informal and observational assessment of autistic students' communication skills.

This podcast discusses ways to support autistic individuals who are in middle and high school. It describes the importance of shared goals and provides actionable tips and strategies, including methods of data collection, for SLPs supporting this age group.

The latest science shows that three of the most powerful ways to change the brain include social interaction, activity, and mental or cognitive challenges. This course provides updates on neuroplasticity across the lifespan, including information on mirror neurons, and offers concrete suggestions for clinicians who work with adults with neurologic communication disorders.