CEU Courses for SLPs

Alternative Augmentative Communication (AAC) can be used for students with varying needs. This podcast discusses a wide variety of AAC applications, supporting users of AAC in schools, and pointers for getting started with AAC.

This podcast discusses the characteristics of autism in girls and how those differences may affect reliable diagnosis and treatment. Strategies for intervention and resources to help support female autistic learners are shared.

Serving older learners can be a challenge due to a lack of information and research regarding functional intervention. This podcast discusses assessment tools for social and leisure skills, and provides practical strategies and activities to help older students strengthen their social language skills through leisure skills.

Setting Individualized Education Program (IEP) goals for autistic learners can be incredibly difficult, especially when working with emerging communicators. This podcast describes a practical and systematic approach to evaluating and establishing functional goals for autistic learners.

Joint attention is strongly connected to receptive and expressive language skills. This podcast discusses the importance of joint attention, embedding joint attention activities into early intervention sessions, and strategies to use with literacy-based activities.

The development of individualized education programs (IEPs) for autistic learners can be overwhelming. This podcast discusses strategies, including foundational skills to be considered and helpful assessment tools, for planning robust and functional IEPs for autistic learners.

This podcast identifies eight foundational skills to address with younger autistic learners, including joint attention and labeling, and describes strategies and activities to target these skills.

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.

This course provides an overview of cognitive-communication disorders (CCD) in both the pediatric and adult populations. It addresses causes and symptoms of CCD, service delivery issues across settings, evidence-based recommendations for treatment and intervention, and challenges SLPs may face when serving individuals with this disorder.

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.