This session teaches participants how to use principles of effective intervention to impact the practices implemented on their school teams to support students’ literacy, language, and cognitive skills. Participants will learn to create a strategic plan that leverages their clinical expertise and positions them as a trusted expert, so they can impact practices at the building level and beyond.
Live Webinar
Mon, Apr 14, 2025 at 7:00 pm EDTCEUs/Hours Offered: ASHA/0.1 Intermediate, Professional; Calif SLPAB/1.0; IACET/0.1; Kansas LTS-S1370/1.0; SAC/1.0
Learning Outcomes
- After this course, participants will be able to identify barriers to effective collaboration between teachers, therapists, and school administrators.
- After this course, participants will be able to describe strategies for using multiple service delivery models to support students’ language, literacy, and cognitive skills.
- After this course, participants will be able to identify effective tools for creating an action plan for a leadership initiative for a PreK-12 team.
Agenda
0-5 Minutes | Introduction |
5-10 Minutes | Barriers to collaboration relating to literacy |
10-15 Minutes | The relationship between language and executive functioning |
15-20 Minutes | Essential frameworks for language and literacy to shape collaboration |
20-25 Minutes | What service delivery model is most effective for language and cognition? |
25-30 Minutes | Planning for therapy versus planning for service delivery: Why this distinction is important for SLPs |
30-35 Minutes | How to “scale” intervention protocols to make a bigger impact |
35-40 Minutes | Creating assets that help you coach others and impact practices of your colleagues |
40-45 Minutes | The “asset stack” technique that boosts efficiency and enables team collaboration |
45-50 Minutes | Creating a “master plan” |
50-55 Minutes | Maximizing impact: focusing on what we can influence |
55-60 Minutes | Summary and Q/A |
Presented By

Karen Dudek-Brannan
EdD, MS CCC-SLP
Dr. Karen Dudek-Brannan is the founder and owner/operator of Dr. Karen, LLC, company focused on empowering therapists and educators to design interventions that support language, literacy, and executive functioning. She has a doctorate in Special Education and Director of Special Education and Assistive Technology credentials from Illinois State University, as well as master's and bachelor's degrees from Illinois State University in speech-language pathology. She spent 14 years in the school systems and has held various roles in leadership and higher education teaching and mentoring clinicians and educators. She is the host of the De Facto Leaders podcast, where she shares evidence-based practices, her own experience, and guest expert interviews on topics related to education and healthcare reform. She currently holds a management role with the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services.
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Financial: Karen Dudek-Brannan was paid an honorarium for this presentation. She owns a consulting practice that empowers clinicians and teachers to support language, literacy and executive functioning. Non-financial: Karen is the host of the De Facto Leaders podcast, which covers topics related to education and healthcare reform.
Sponsor Disclosure: This Course is presented by SpeechPathology.com, a Continued site.
Content Disclosure: This learning event does not focus exclusively on any specific product or service.
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American Speech-Language-Hearing Assn.
Intermediate Level
0.10 ASHA CEUs
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Kansas Dept for Aging and Disability Services
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