Summer 2021 Continuing Education Opportunities for SLPs

June 29, 2021August 2, 2021Leave a comment

I hope that we spend most of this summer relaxing, but it is a great time to earn some CEUs or build up knowledge in an area of growth. Here is a list of current summer 2021 continuing education opportunities for SLPs.

AAC in the Cloud

AAC in the Cloud is a massive free online conference focused on spreading the knowledge of best practices in AAC so families, teaching staff, practitioners and AAC users themselves can learn and improve. AAC in the Cloud just concluded on June 24, 2021, but all of the sessions are available hosted through YouTube. Best of all, past AAC in the Cloud conference sessions are also available.

Click here to check out the AAC in the Cloud schedule.

From Speech to Print: The Role of the SLP for Literacy – Free Course from SpeechTherapyPD.com

As SLPs, we often question our role for students with literacy issues including dyslexia. Each domain of language plays a vital role to move from speaking and listening to reading and writing. This session concentrates on morphology, phonology, and syntax. Evidence-based practices and specific strategies are provided that link speaking and listening with reading and writing.

This webinar is available for .1 ASHA CEU with ASHA reporting included. Click here to check it out.

SpeechPathology.com

If you are not a member already you can take one free course on Speechpathology.com using promo code 1FREECourse.

Presence Learning

Building Better Readers Through Early Collaborative Partnerships is a one-hour webinar available on-demand on Presence Learning.

Description: Progress in creating literate learners is the cornerstone of education and a high-stakes yardstick by which academic performance is measured. Silos of school-based services are how we’ve traditionally helped students with special needs who are at-risk for reading failure. But now, there’s a new collaborative and results-oriented approach: parents and educators working together to provide individual early reading experiences that develop literacy skills for every learner. During this webinar, we’ll explore why, how, and what we read in shared reading interactions with young children and how to develop critical foundation skills for reading success. You’ll see examples of books, techniques, and practical ways to help young learners succeed.

Click here to check it out.

Leaders Project

The Leaders Project offers self-study courses for 0.5 ASHA CEUs. Current topic offerings include Grammar Fundamentals for a Pluralistic Society, Differential Diagnosis in Preschool Evaluations: A Case Study, Disorder, Difference, or Gap?: A School-Age Disability Evaluation, Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate EI Evaluations, and Evaluation and Treatment of Speech Impairments Due to Cleft Palate.

Check them out here.

Pearson Assessments

Check out the webinars available by Pearson to help improve your assessment skills. Click here to check it out.

Ethical Decision-Making: A Public Health Emergency and Unprecedented Challenges by Theresa H. Rodgers, MA, CCC-SLP, ASHA Fellow

Course Description: Response to the COVID-19 pandemic evolved rapidly with the public health emergency forcing speech-language pathologists to change the very manner in which services are delivered. Regulatory agencies and professional organizations provided needed guidance including information on changes to long-standing professional practice standards precipitated by the pandemic. Personal protective equipment (PPE), billing and reimbursement, informed consent, supervision, telepractice, confidentiality, and Individualized Education Plan (IEP) compliance are some of the topics which presented dilemmas and potentially ethical challenges for speech-language pathology professionals. This session will highlight information on these topics including scenarios that will be analyzed and deliberated by participants.

Available for .1 ASHA CEU. Click here to check it out.

Power Up SLP Literacy Conference August 5-6, 2021

The Lavi Institute is offering 1.4 live ASHA CEUs or 14 professional development hours sharing the latest EBP clinical tools from the field’s leading experts in literacy. The conference videos are available to watch for free. To receive ASHA reporting you would need to sign up for the Lavi Institute CEU Hub ($125/year), which includes 40 additional pre-recorded webinars available for ASHA CEU Reporting.

Check the conference out here.

SLP Summit July 26 – 29, 2021

Free practical continuing education delivered by SLPs. SLP Summit offers 8 one-hour webinars available live or on-demand for a limited time. The specific webinar lineup has not yet been announced, but the following topics were listed on the website: caseload management, stuttering, family-centered intervention, dynamic assessment, service delivery, AAC, anti-ableist practice, narrative intervention. The webinars are available for free with certificates. ASHA reporting is usually available for an affordable price.

Click here to sign up for updates as more information is released.

Unbelievable Deal: Unlimited CEUs with ASHA Reporting from SpeechTheraoyPD.com

If you need to get a lot of high-quality CEUs with ASHA reporting this summer, make sure you check out SpeechTherapyPD.com. SpeechTherapyPD.com has over 1148.5 hours of courses with new live and interactive courses being added weekly. Enjoy automatic CEU reporting and a huge variety of courses presented in different formats for a super reasonable yearly cost.

Check out all that SpeechTherapyPD.com has to offer by clicking here.

Let me know if you check out any of these CEU opportunities! Thanks for reading!

May Therapy Plans

May 2, 2021Leave a comment

Happy May!

Head on over to my freebie library to download your copy of the May Speech Therapy Ideas Guide with clickable links to picture books, articles, web-based games, videos, songs & Seldom Speechless resources. Includes activities great for teletherapy or in-person and best for preschool & elementary-aged kiddos!

Thanks for reading!

April Therapy Plans

March 28, 2021March 28, 2021Leave a comment

Happy April!

Spring is in full swing over in my neck of the woods! A bird is building its nest on my front door wreath and I am research how to grow a vegetable garden!

I am going to bring all this spring energy into my speech therapy sessions this month!

Head on over to my freebie library to download your copy of the April Speech Therapy Ideas sheet with clickable links to picture books, articles, web-based games, videos, songs & Seldom Speechless resources. Includes activities great for teletherapy or in-person and best for preschool & elementary-aged kiddos!

Thanks for reading!

Video Modeling: How do I use it?

March 7, 2021Leave a comment

Three Types of Videos

Video Peer-Modeling: Video of a peer completing the routine. Students attend best to video models that share similar characteristics to themselves (Bellini & Akullian, 2007).
Video Self-Modeling: Video of the student completing the routine. Videos depicting the targeted student must only show successful attempts of the targeted skill. Strategic taping and editing must be used to show the child successfully completing the routine (Bellini & Akullian, 2007).
Video Perspective-Modeling: Video of a routine filmed from the perspective of the student.

Check out an example of video perspective-modeling here.

Phases of Intervention

Phase 1

Introduce the edited video of the desired skill to your student by first simply playing it in the student’s presence—no expectations or demands at first.

Phase 2

Watch the video with the student. You can either listen to the embedded audio or mute the videos and speak your own simplified narration as the routine plays. It can be helpful to pair steps of the video with visual icons to provide greater visually cued instruction. After viewing the video model, practice the skill through discrete practice sessions or role-playing (this is the production process of observational learning). Offer prompts, cues, immediate models, and redirection as needed for the student to be successful.

Phase 3

Consistently watch the appropriate video before completing a targeted routine to ensure sufficient exposure to the model. Each time the student completes the routine fade prompts and cues to scaffold to independence. As the student becomes more successful with the routine periodically review the video models as professionally determined.

A Note About Motivation

Encourage the student attend to the videos using verbal redirection cues but remember attention is not a prerequisite skill for learning and research has indicated modeling and frequent exposure are sufficient to support learning without hand-over-hand assistance and use of external reinforcers or punishments (D’Ateno, Mangiapanello, & Taylor, 2003).

Thanks for reading!