Presenter: Claudia Doan, MS, CCC-SLP
This fun, interactive, and evidence-based course is designed to help school-age children internalize lessons taught in speech therapy and generalize them to real-life communication situations. Learn treatment approaches to meet the needs of older students in the areas of articulation, vocabulary and written expression. Presented in detail will be highly engaging and easy-to-implement experiential, speech-language therapy lessons.... more+
Presenter: Nancy Kaufman, MA, CCC-SLP
The Kaufman Speech to Language Protocol (K-SLP) is one of the most commonly used treatment approaches for childhood apraxia of speech (CAS). This comprehensive training offers participants the opportunity to demonstrate competencies in the implementation of the K-SLP for treatment of CAS. Gain a deeper understanding of the essential components of this approach. Learn strategies for using phonological processes to select treatment stimuli, and learn methods to help children progress from unintelligible speakers to functional verbal communicators.... more+
Presenters: Jean Blosser, EdD, CCC-SLP & Nancy Robinson, PhD, CCC-SLP
This course explores MTSS and implications for SLP practice. Working within the MTSS framework offers a new paradigm for service delivery that can help SLPs address everyday challenges such as: 1) integrating intervention strategies into classroom instruction, 2) determining dosage for services, 3) balancing high caseloads/heavy workloads, 4) collaborating with resistant colleagues, 5) identifying priorities, and 6) managing limited resources.... more+
Presenter: J. Scott Yaruss, PhD, CCC-SLP, BCS-F, F-ASHA
This course will help SLPs apply fundamental knowledge about stuttering therapy in order to reduce the adverse impact of stuttering for school-age children and adolescents. Presentation discusses treatment goals and practical therapy activities that can be applied immediately in your therapy sessions.... more+
Presenter: Nancy Kaufman, MA, CCC-SLP
Join apraxia expert, Nancy Kaufman, for this online course as she discusses evaluation and treatment strategies for Childhood Apraxia of Speech. This presentation will include signs and symptoms of CAS, establishing motivation, shaping word approximations, implementing and fading cues, reinforcement strategies, data collection, scripting functional expressive language, coaching parents, and practicing skills in the natural environment.... more+
Presenter: Jean Blosser, EdD, CCC-SLP
Let's Talk Today! is a practical resource SLPs can use to engage parents in their child's language development or improvement. This course includes a 12-month, dateless calendar with over 400 fun and interactive activities. Simple explanations of proven language intervention techniques are incorporated. Use the activities to build language skills needed for school success.... more+
Presenter: Gina Gabel Hurst, MS, CCC-SLP
This course will help SLPs to effectively promote speech sound carryover with children ages 3 to 12. This course includes the Carryover Cards for Kids – a downloadable resource containing 124 English talk task cards and 116 Spanish talk task cards.... more+
Presenter: Martha S. Burns, PhD, CCC-SLP
This course reviews current neuroscience research on mechanisms of neuroplasticity and is applicable to all age ranges. Specific emphasis is placed on cognitive-communication therapeutic drivers that positively affect brain maturation, reorganization, and recovery after injury. This course provides a practical, comprehensive overview of treatment methodology including... more+
Presenter: Ana Paula Mumy, SLPD, CCC-SLP
Explaining to students how to change the way they move their tongue, lip and jaw muscles to improve speech intelligibility has always been challenging. This course uses a multi-sensory approach with video demonstrations to make it easier for students to understand, remember, self-monitor, and use evidence-based strategies for the remediation of R, S, Z, L, F, V, TH, SH, CH sounds. Includes numerous downloadable reproducibles for use in your therapy sessions.... more+
Presenter: Mirla G. Raz, MEd, SLP
This presentation is a follow up to course, #e126. Learn step-by-step instructions for the treatment of stuttering in the preschool population. Includes integrating the participation of the parent(s) into the therapeutic process as well as specific instructions for at home carryover.... more+
Presenter: Claudia Doan, MS, CCC-SLP
This fun, interactive, and evidence-based course is designed to help school-age children internalize lessons taught in speech therapy and generalize them to real-life communication situations. Presented in detail will be highly engaging and easy-to-implement experiential, speech-language therapy lessons.... more+
Presenter: J. Scott Yaruss, PhD, CCC-SLP, BCS-F, F-ASHA
This presentation details goals and procedures that speech-language pathologists can use to help school-age children, adolescents, and adults overcome the burden of stuttering. Treatment techniques are presented throughout the course to empower clinicians to feel more comfortable and confident in their abilities to help those who stutter. To aid speakers who stutter, this course presents specific strategies to:... more+
Presenter: Sandra R. Holtzman, MS, CCC-SLP, COM, QOM
This is the "go to" program for /r/ therapy when auditory bombardment and tactile cues are not enough to produce positive treatment results. This course covers seven basic steps that are necessary to move clients onward toward habituation. Structural and functional complications that interfere with the treatment process are described and ruled out. Basic lingual skills necessary for success are introduced early in the treatment program.... more+
Presenter: Lissa Power-deFur, PhD, CCC-SLP
Learn a method for analysis of standards to plan intervention for students with speech sound disorders. The method begins with analysis of grade level standards, with a focus on those that may be challenging for speech sound disorders. Next, is analysis of student strengths and needs and the communication expectations of the classroom. Interventions are presented to enable the student to be successful in attaining the standards.... more+
Presenter: Shari Robertson, PhD, CCC-SLP
This course covers analyzing the entire phonological system as the basis for effective and efficient intervention. Participants will be guided through a case study using reusable templates with immediate feedback provided after each section. Multiple strategies to address the resulting therapy targets will be demonstrated. Participants will gain a wealth of new information that can be immediately applied to children on their caseload.... more+
Presenter: Jean Blosser, EdD, CCC-SLP
This course focuses on improving the partnership between the SLP and teacher. Discusses solutions to challenges such as: (1) aligning intervention to curriculum standards; (2) mandates for better accountability and outcomes; (3) the increasing numbers of students with complex disabilities; (4) mandates for alternative approaches to service delivery; and (5) personnel shortages.... more+
Presenter: J. Scott Yaruss, PhD, CCC-SLP, BCS-F, F-ASHA
Stuttering is a complicated disorder with a complicated history. Numerous theories about the cause of stuttering have been presented, and countless treatments have been advocated. Fortunately, the field has seen a growing consensus about etiology and intervention. This course will provide a comprehensive model of the disorder that can be used to guide both the assessment and treatment process.... more+
Presenter: Paul Fogle, PhD, CCC-SLP
This course will help SLPs and other rehabilitation specialists learn important counseling skills for working with clients/patients and their families during challenging interactions. Learn counseling skills that are particularly helpful with individuals who stutter or have cognitive-linguistic impairments related to stroke and TBI.... more+
Presenter: Nancy Geruntino, MA, SLP
Are your students struggling to make progress using traditional ‘R’ remediation therapy? R Made Simple is an entirely different approach to R. This method is easy to teach, fun to learn, and most importantly, it reduces the number of contexts that need to be taught! This approach is appropriate for students who are beginning therapy, for students with distortions persisting after expected development, and for students struggling to make progress using other 'R' therapy approaches. ... more+
Presenter: Mirla G. Raz, MEd, SLP
This course will focus on the role of the SLP in helping parents minimize their child's disfluencies. Different home environments will be discussed in their relation to stuttering. Includes discussion of when to recommend fluency therapy, what should be in place for therapy to succeed, viewpoints and questions a SLP may encounter, and appropriate responses to these questions. Focus is children ages 2-5.... more+
Presenter: Nancy Horowitz Bertsch, MA, CCC-SLP
This course features a comprehensive case study of a former NFL football player. It will examine his case history and his treatment goals along with treatment plans and methodology. The presentation follows his treatment sessions and the changes which occurred during treatment. Includes a review of his treatment outcomes and the successful tools utilized during therapy.... more+
Presenter: Martha S. Burns, PhD, CCC-SLP
This course reviews neuroscience research on the underlying causes of APD, dyslexia and CAS. Several neuroimaging studies will be highlighted including recent dyslexia research from the Shaywitz team at Yale and research on Prompt for CAS. This course then reviews available assessment tools and evidence-based interventions.... more+
Presenter: Cyndi Stein-Rubin, MS, CCC-SLP
This online course is designed to advance counseling skills for the SLP. Learn a variety of counseling tools and techniques which can be applied to both adult and pediatric clients. This presentation will guide participants through various counseling programs in easy to follow sequences. Learn to emphasize strengths, elaborate on goals to achieve maximum success, and reframe negative thinking styles related to communication disorders.... more+
Presenter: Ana Paula Mumy, SLPD, CCC-SLP
Learn to maximize articulation therapy through creative drill activities that yield a high number of repetitions per session. This course focuses on effective high-intensity, high-repetition drill practice activities that can be implemented easily and immediately. Participants will also learn various practical therapy ideas that promote quicker carryover of learned skills.... more+
Presenter: Ana Paula Mumy, SLPD, CCC-SLP
This course will aid SLPs in developing home articulation programs. It provides simple home activities for parents working on articulation and identifies 3 things parents should know to facilitate the proper articulation of sounds at home. Includes website links and other resources which contain good sources for therapy materials.... more+
Presenters: Ruthann Jarvis, MA, CCC-SLP & Elizabeth Peterson, MA, CCC-SLP
With growing caseloads, SLPs are increasingly challenged to make meaningful therapy progress with each student. This course presents the "Strategies Offer Solutions" intervention formula. Apply this formula to create practical, functional, and easy-to-implement strategies to target articulation, language, grammar, organizing thoughts, inferring & reasoning, written language, attention, fluency awareness, and eye contact. This course includes all the downloads needed to implement this approach with success!... more+
Presenter: Keli Richmond, MS, CCC-SLP
Different from other "literacy" courses, this evidence-based course will provide specific guidance for SLPs working to establish early literacy skills with children with Autism. Exposing children with Autism to early literacy interventions with embedded printed (orthographic) cues is imperative. This course teaches the use of printed cues as a means to... more+
Presenter: Keli Richmond, MS, CCC-SLP
Research has found that even when children with speech sound disorders receive early speech intervention and sounds are successfully remediated, they may be at continued risk for later reading, spelling, and academic difficulties due to a weak underlying phonological system. In this course, learn to use orthographic instruction to remediate speech errors while simultaneously supporting literacy and language skills.... more+
Presenter: Patrick Rydell, Ed.D., CCC-SLP
In spite of best efforts during therapy sessions, social-communication-behavioral breakdowns may still occur when working with children with ASD. Our interpersonal interactions may unintentionally trigger, or at least contribute to these breakdowns. This course identifies common scenarios in which breakdowns occur, and explains the sources of interactional breakdowns specific to each of the 10 LSP components.... more+
Presenter: Rosslyn Delmonico, MA, RSLP, CCC-SLP
Learn strategies to teach children the language skills needed for face-to-face conversations. Provides evidence-based teaching methods and ‘hands-on’ learning activities that can effectively support the acquisition of three conversation skills: greetings, chitchat, and long conversations with embedded topics. The lesson activities can be implemented within a variety of therapy settings and are primarily intended for children ages 5-14 years. ... more+
Presenter: Veronica Contreras, MS, CCC-SLP
This presentation will cover ideas to promote diversity and inclusion in the field of speech-language pathology in an effort to create equity for individuals with disabilities. This course discusses specific ways in which SLPs can utilize AAC to be more inclusive of all our client’s needs by considering AAC as a viable approach in our evaluations and therapy planning. Content is appropriate for both pediatric and adult clients. ... more+
Presenters: Kellyn Dailey Hall, PhD, CCC-SLP & Leslie Johnson, PhD, CCC-SLP
This course provides SLPs with an overview of Artificial Intelligence (AI), emphasizing its ethical applications in the field. It explores the practical uses and challenges of AI, along with crucial ethical considerations such as privacy, consent, and bias mitigation. This course guides SLPs in effectively leveraging AI to enhance efficiency and productivity in their daily operations, all while upholding ethical standards. ... more+
Presenters: Cheri Fraker, CCC-SLP, CLC & Laura Walbert, CCC-SLP, CLC
This treatment course demonstrates the how-to’s of PreChaining and Food Chaining over time. Learn fun and creative strategies for successfully implementing PreChaining and/or Food Chaining therapy for the child with severe to extreme feeding aversion. Detailed case studies are used to demonstrate from week to week how to help the child and their family make rapid and lasting gains, eat safely, lower anxiety, expand the diet, improve nutritional status, and eat with joy.... more+
Presenter: Ana Paula Mumy, SLPD, CCC-SLP
Participants will differentiate between a medical model of treatment, one that focuses on fixing or curing the individual’s impairment to accommodate society’s norms and values, and a social model lens of treatment for people who stutter, one that acknowledges human diversity. Participants will identify ways to prioritize the speaker’s experience of stuttering and the impact stuttering has on their lives, as well as their crucial role in educating and advocating for change within the existing physical, attitudinal, communication, and social environment.... more+
Presenter: Marissa Rocheleau, MA, CCC-SLP
This course outlines ethical ramifications of providing online service delivery to clients. Includes a discussion of the legal and ethical guidelines for providing online delivery of services, and a discussion of guidelines for determining if clients are appropriate for telepractice. Course content is applicable for both adult and pediatric client populations.... more+
Presenter: Jennifer Dahms, MS, CCC-SLP, BCS-S
ARFID is a relatively new diagnosis to the medical community. This course will discuss the definition and symptoms of ARFID, additional diagnoses that can occur with a diagnosis of ARFID, and describe several screening and assessment tools that have been utilized and studied for diagnosing. Possible therapeutic, medical, and pharmacological interventions are discussed. Course content is applicable for both adult and pediatric client populations.... more+
Presenter: Teresa Roberts, EdD, CCC-SLP
This course will provide an overview of ethical decision-making models in relation to cultural factors, compassion fatigue and burnout related to work stressors. Ethical decision-making will be examined through the lens of self-reflective practices. Resources for navigating compassion fatigue and burnout will be provided. Content is applicable for SLPs working with both adult and pediatric populations.... more+
Presenter: Kaitlyn Shrum, MA, CCC-SLP, QOM
This course will provide a review of the anatomy of respiration, define functional versus dysfunctional breathing, and describe best practices for implementing breathwork into clinical practice. Participants will be able to successfully evaluate clients for dysfunctional breathing and develop a plan of care to improve total health through functional nasal breathing. Course content is applicable for both adult and pediatric populations.... more+
Presenter: Joan Arvedson, PhD, CCC-SLP, BC-NCD, BCS-S, ASHA Honors & Fellow
Presented by pediatric dysphagia expert, Dr. Joan Arvedson, this course provides comprehensive coverage of assessment and treatment of oropharyngeal dysphagia in infants and children. Participants will learn to describe findings on VFSS, to interpret findings related to underlying physiology, and to make management decisions for intervention strategies. Course includes 20 patient VFSS cases of varied ages and underlying etiologies.... more+
Presenter: Marissa Rocheleau, MA, CCC-SLP
This comprehensive course outlines how to start or expand your own telepractice business as a therapist. It will cover issues related to company formulation and licensing, taxes and liability, advertising strategies, resources for online business owners, hiring and supervising therapists, how to write contracts, and much more.... more+
Presenter: Marge Blanc, MA, CCC-SLP
This NLA Level 3 Course presents an all-new look at NLA treatment. Discussed are strategies for individualizing treatment for gestalt language processors of any age: 18 months to 28 years. This course covers every aspect of supporting gestalt language development, including physical supports for self-regulation. Extensive videos, language samples, and goal-writing are included.... more+
Presenter: Adina Soclof, MS, CCC-SLP
An increasing number of children have difficulty coping with 21st century everyday life. This course provides a working definition of resilience and descriptions of the characteristics that may be associated with better outcomes for children who confront adversity in their lives. It also identifies particular groups of children – most notably those with developmental challenges and learning disabilities – who are most likely to benefit from resilience training.... more+
Presenter: Adina Soclof, MS, CCC-SLP
This course describes various challenges that can sidetrack children in their developmental and educational processes, leaving them with a sense of discouragement and helplessness. Participants in this course will learn strategies to help children become aware of and use their own strengths to develop a growth mindset and overcome academic challenges.... more+
Presenter: Adina Soclof, MS, CCC-SLP
This course will teach clinicians and parents effective communication and conversational skills to use in the classroom, in one-on-one situations, and at home with children and their families. Course participants will learn strategies for addressing children’s negative feelings, reducing frustration and power struggles, managing meltdowns, encouraging cooperation, improving motivation, building self-esteem and more... more+
Presenter: Jennifer L. Schultz, MA, CCC-SLP
This course will introduce SLPs to the ASHA Assistants Code of Conduct. It is important for supervising SLPs to know the content of this code and to use it along with the ASHA Code of Ethics to navigate ethical issues when working with SLPAs. A framework is provided to analyze ethical concerns and to implement solutions to maintain ethical practice when supervising SLPAs.... more+
Presenter: Jennifer L. Schultz, MA, CCC-SLP
In this course, participants will be provided with the background needed to identify and form complex sentence stimuli for therapy. Tools and techniques for assessment to identify client strengths and needs will be shared. Evidence-based implicit and explicit treatment techniques to address complex sentence comprehension and expression will be demonstrated. This course includes downloadable, reproducible therapy resources.... more+
Presenter: Jennifer L. Schultz, MA, CCC-SLP
Increasingly, SLPs are supervising SLP assistants (SLPAs). The competencies and skills needed for a successful long-term supervisor/supervisee relationship are different from those required for supervision of students and clinical fellows. This course will introduce two important factors in maintaining a successful long-term supervisor/supervisee relationship: psychological safety and receiving feedback. Course participants will learn... more+
Presenter: Marissa Rocheleau, MA, CCC-SLP
This course is designed for SLPs to learn more about treating children in early intervention (ages 0-2) and in school settings (ages 3-22) using a telepractice based model. Content will include research foundations supporting the use of telepractice, valuable resources and materials to implement in treatment, collaboration strategies, real videos of treatment, and case studies.... more+
Presenter: Cathy Alexander, MA, CCC-SLP
This course will help SLPs to support children’s syntax development. Key features of syntax will be reviewed. Strategies, contexts, and toys & books that can facilitate production of complex syntax in language samples will be highlighted. Learn a myriad of evidence-based “Go To” strategies for teaching syntax both orally and in the written language. This course includes downloadable, reproducible therapy resources.... more+
Presenter: Trina Spencer, PhD, BCBA-D
This course presents 10 principles of effective narrative intervention. Learn what's special about oral language and what's special about stories. Learn deficits that oral storytelling can help solve. Learn how oral storytelling instruction can effectively address the cluster of skills that are at the core of everything literacy related. Stories are everywhere. Why not harness their power?... more+
Presenter: Trina Spencer, PhD, BCBA-D
This course takes a deep dive into academic language and how to teach it in meaningful contexts. Only 12% of students with language disabilities meet grade level expectations in reading and writing. When SLPs concentrate their language intervention on the dimensions of academic language—namely vocabulary, discourse structures, complex sentences, morphology, and inferencing—more students achieve academic expectations. ... more+
Presenter: Martha S. Burns, PhD, CCC-SLP
This course covers the neurology of auditory processing disorders with a specific focus on oral language, reading, and cognitive issues that research has shown can be associated with APD in children and adolescents. Includes evidence-based interventions and online, open-access therapeutic and educational resources.... more+
Presenter: Megan Brazas, MA, CCC-SLP, QOM
While focusing solely on picture exchange is certainly beneficial for many children, successful outcomes using this approach still leave children unable to communicate in sentences and unable to say what they want to say, when they want to say it. This course will introduce the Core Vocabulary Exchange System® (CVES™), which incorporates picture exchange with core vocabulary to teach functional communication skills. Participants will learn to... more+
Presenter: Marissa Rocheleau, MA, CCC-SLP
This course outlines how to implement telepractice in a school-based setting, including how-tos for holding IEPs and case management virtually. It includes implementation suggestions that therapists can immediately apply in their practice.... more+
Presenter: Martha S. Burns, PhD, CCC-SLP
This course reviews neuroscience research on processes of neurodevelopment emphasizing auditory, cognitive, and communication networks. Research is explained and reviewed followed by clinical applications.... more+
Presenter: Martha S. Burns, PhD, CCC-SLP
Learn basic neuroanatomy and neurophysiology to better understand and integrate the latest neuroscience research to populations including autism spectrum disorders, auditory processing disorders, motor speech disorders, language disorders in children and aphasia in adults... more+
Presenter: Marissa Rocheleau, MA, CCC-SLP
This course outlines how to implement early intervention in the telepractice setting. It will cover issues related to the research supporting telepractice for early intervention, identifying appropriate models of intervention for EI telepractice, and discuss potential ... more+
Presenter: Marissa Rocheleau, MA, CCC-SLP
This course outlines how to implement AAC in the telepractice setting. It will cover identifying appropriate models of intervention and assessment for AAC telepractice and discuss potential solutions for implementing AAC online.... more+
Presenter: Jennifer Dahms, MS, CCC-SLP, BCS-S
A hyper-responsive gag reflex with food intake can negatively impact the full feeding experience and requires specific techniques for a smooth progression with oral intake. This course will overview gag reflex descriptions, discuss research on hyper-responsive gag reflexes, and provide therapy techniques, including tools to desensitize the gag reflex.... more+
Presenter: Patrick Rydell, Ed.D., CCC-SLP
More time spent coping. . . is less time spent learning. Both children with ASD and SLPs struggle at times with interactional breakdowns during speech therapy sessions. This course provides SLPs with therapy design considerations to help mitigate interactional breakdowns so speech therapy can be more productive from the start. ... more+
Presenter: Patrick Rydell, Ed.D., CCC-SLP
For many children with ASD, social and communication interaction styles can be characterized as mechanical, scripted, and robotic. This course provides SLPs with practical steps and strategies to move children with autism from unconventional, mechanical and inflexible verbal exchanges to conventional uses of language that is typical of friends, peers and classmates. In this course, Dr. Rydell will describe how ... more+
Presenter: Patrick Rydell, Ed.D., CCC-SLP
This course provides SLPs with step-by-step strategies to design and implement Joint Action Routines (JARs) as a preferred tool to facilitate verbal communication in children with autism. JARs are best practice, naturalistic, social-communicative routines that occur among adult or peer partners and the child with autism and that provide rich contexts for language learning, generative language and social use of language.... more+
Presenter: Patrick Rydell, Ed.D., CCC-SLP
This course provides specific goals and strategies for SLPs to use at school, home, or in therapy to help move children with autism from object-oriented to people-oriented learners. It is particularly relevant for children with autism who struggle with how to independently learn social skills from others without being directly taught or prompted by adults.... more+
Presenter: Patrick Rydell, Ed.D., CCC-SLP
This course takes the empirical research on ASD peer-mediated interventions and provides practical, common-sense strategies for SLPs to help children with autism learn how to increase their social abilities with friends. These strategies also help children with autism to see peers as trusted mentors as their confidence builds to participate in unplanned social activities.... more+
Presenter: LeAnna Heinrich, MS, CCC-SLP
This course focuses on a consultative model of intervention examining social and emotional concerns when providing services virtually. This course also includes functional speech and language strategies and is most relevant for clinicians working with preschoolers and school-age children.... more+
Presenters: Jennifer Llado, MS, CCC-SLP & Brenda Lovette, MS, CCC-SLP
This course will explore the use of meditation and mindfulness practices for the direct application to pediatric speech-language pathology. Specific techniques will be discussed and demonstrated for integration into clinical practice. ... more+
Presenter: Cathy Alexander, MA, CCC-SLP
This course connects SLP treatment with curriculum-related goals that the child is learning in the classroom. This session covers from early science vocabulary (kindergarten) through adolescents. Learn evidence-based intervention strategies for teaching vocabulary for life science, changes in matter, and earth science. This course includes downloadable, reproducible therapy resources.... more+
Presenter: Cathy Alexander, MA, CCC-SLP
Limited verb lexicon is a characteristic of children with specific language impairment (SLI). Learn how SLPs can foster the development of verbs by increasing frequency input and verb diversity. Strategies will be provided for children with SLI to learn curriculum verbs. Grade-level verbs, high-incidence academic verbs, and verbs critical for academic success will be covered. This course includes downloadable, reproducible therapy resources.... more+
Presenter: Martha S. Burns, PhD, CCC-SLP
This course will review new research on Social Emotional Learning (SEL), self-regulation, motivation and academic confidence. The content will include brain research on how regulatory skills mature in children and adolescents to enable purposeful, goal-oriented behavior for academic success. Research on best practices for... more+
Presenter: Kimberly Sanzo, MS, CCC-SLP
This course is intended for speech-language pathologists who work with children who may have adverse childhood experiences (ACEs). It will address the effects of negative childhood experiences, such as abuse and neglect, on language and cognitive development.... more+
Presenter: Emily Laracy, MA, MS, CCC-SLP/L
Selective Mutism (SM) is an anxiety disorder which profoundly affects social/pragmatic language skills and falls under the Speech-language Pathologist’s scope of practice. This presentation will provide assessment strategies, review important factors to consider in planning treatment, and provide practical suggestions of activities to use in therapy sessions.... more+
Presenter: Tom Franceschini, MS, CCC-SLP
This course is designed to teach and review infection control practices required throughout all healthcare settings, and specifically as they apply to Speech-Language Pathologists and other healthcare professionals. Infection Control Practices have been evolving and advancing since the onset of the AID’s crisis of the 1980s. Learn ... more+
Presenter: Marissa Rocheleau, MA, CCC-SLP
This course will cover issues related to choosing treatment materials for designing effective teletherapy sessions. Discussion will cover document cameras and iPad mirroring and offers many product suggestions and screen captures of potential materials that therapists can immediately apply in their practice. ... more+
Presenter: Amanda Warren, MS, CCC-SLP
Fulfill your ASHA Mentoring and Supervisory course requirements. This course is intended for SLPs who are interested in developing their teaching abilities prior to taking on their first student. Participants will be introduced to terminology, supports available for novice supervisors, and common models of supervision and feedback. Most importantly,... more+
Presenter: Kimberly Sanzo, MS, CCC-SLP
This course is intended for speech-language pathologists who work with children who are deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH). It will address language deprivation in the DHH population by defining it, identifying its characteristics, and describing how to prevent and treat it.... more+
Presenter: LeAnna Heinrich, MS, CCC-SLP
This course examines the relationship between excessive screen time and language development, and offers suggestions for helping families understand screen time. Specific methods and strategies for incorporating the screen time discussion into pragmatic language therapy are provided. This course includes downloadable, reproducible therapy resources.... more+
Presenter: Cathy Alexander, MA, CCC-SLP
This course focuses on innovative strategies for teaching grammatical morphology for children ages 3 to 10. The presenter will demonstrate evidence-based practices targeting present progressive verbs, regular and irregular past tense verbs, plurals, possessives, comparatives and superlatives. Participants will take away numerous treatment activities as well as ready-to-use handouts. ... more+
Presenter: Harrison Jones, PhD, CCC-SLP
This course provides the critical background and foundational knowledge for developing and improving clinical RMT programs. Discussed will be anatomy and physiology of the respiratory system, strengths and weaknesses of commonly encountered RMT devices, interpretation of maximum inspiratory pressure (MIP) and maximum expiratory pressure (MEP), and RMT treatment including principles of training.... more+
Presenter: Marissa Rocheleau, MA, CCC-SLP
This course will cover issues related to choosing paper-based and digital evaluations, relevant factors that may impact assessments online for children and adults, and discuss potential solutions for common challenges in the online realm. It includes many product suggestions and screen captures of potential types of assessments that therapists can immediately apply in their practice ... more+
Presenter: Patrick Rydell, Ed.D., CCC-SLP
This course serves as the follow up to course, #e213. Most professionals and parents involved in ASD intervention are familiar with the latest empirical research. But, what’s next? What is our game plan? This LSP Advanced Course focuses on training professionals and parents for interventions that facilitate a child’s development from learning style weaknesses to learning style strengths. ... more+
Presenter: Jill Shook, MS, CCC-SLP
Do you want to start a SLP private practice but aren’t sure where to begin? Wish you had a step-by-step guide to answer all your questions? This course will help you navigate through the process of starting a private practice. Whether you are planning for a part-time vs. full-time practice, pediatric vs. adult clients, or medical vs. non-medical setting, the content of this course is applicable across settings and populations. Topics include... more+
Presenter: Jessi Andricks, MS, CCC-SLP
Many SLPs face burnout from the chronic, overwhelming stress they encounter each day. In this course, learn the science behind stress, how it shows up in the day of an SLP, and tools to manage stress and reduce burnout, including Mindfulness and Positivity.... more+
Presenter: Kimberly Morris, MS, CCC-SLP, BCS-S, IBCLC
This presentation will focus on assessment and treatment techniques to reduce aspiration risk at the breast and will highlight how to overcome obstacles to breastfeeding in special populations including children with congenital heart disease, botulism and cleft lip/palate. Videos and case studies will be included.... more+
Presenter: Amy Rouleau, MPA
The heinous crime of human trafficking has reached epidemic levels, not just around the world but in every state in the United States. This course is intended to teach professionals how to identify and respond to human trafficking. It provides an in-depth view of human trafficking, how it occurs, what it looks like, and how to respond.... more+
Presenter: Cassie Quinn, MS, CCC-SLP, BCS-S
Fulfill your ASHA Mentoring and Supervisory course requirements. This 10.5 hour course includes all 10 learning modules from the course series, "Topics on Supervision for Speech-Language Pathologists". Learners may stop and re-start the course at any point, and access to the course content is retained after course completion for ongoing reference and review. Specifically, this course will cover the following topics... more+
Presenter: Cassie Quinn, MS, CCC-SLP, BCS-S
Fulfill your ASHA Mentoring and Supervisory course requirements. This 2-hour course considers supervision across settings. Discussed are common supervisory principles and patterns found across different settings, what the long-term supervision goal should be, and which types of interpersonal communication are most effective in each setting. ... more+
Presenter: Cassie Quinn, MS, CCC-SLP, BCS-S
Fulfill your ASHA Mentoring and Supervisory course requirements. This 2-hour course first discusses accountability in the supervisory process. The second portion of this course will cover supervising students with disabilities. ... more+
Presenter: Cassie Quinn, MS, CCC-SLP, BCS-S
Fulfill your ASHA Mentoring and Supervisory course requirements. This 2-hour course will discuss the importance of teaching critical thinking and problem solving in the supervisory process, and discuss observation and data collection to help maintain integrity in supervision.... more+
Presenter: Cassie Quinn, MS, CCC-SLP, BCS-S
Fulfill your ASHA Mentoring and Supervisory course requirements. This 2-hour course discusses different approaches to developing effective communication skills between supervisor and supervisee including the process of giving feedback and leading conferences with supervisees.... more+
Presenter: Cassie Quinn, MS, CCC-SLP, BCS-S
Fulfill your ASHA Mentoring and Supervisory course requirements. This 2-hour course is divided into two modules. Module 1 will discuss the dynamic nature of the supervisor-student relationship. Module 2 will discuss the importance of individualizing styles and levels of supervision, and provide evidence-based research and suggestions for how to individualize your approach to supervision for each student.... more+
Presenter: Patrick Rydell, Ed.D., CCC-SLP
This course introduces Dr. Patrick Rydell’s Learning Style Profile©. Learn evidence-based interventions to help children with ASD prepare for natural, reciprocal social interactions and conversation. Learn to identify early profiles of learning style strengths and challenges, then establish evidence-based interventions designed... more+
Presenter: Adina Soclof, MS, CCC-SLP
This course teaches clinicians effective and practical strategies to manage challenging and defiant behavior in their young clients. It will also discuss how clinicians can educate parents on how to manage difficult behavior and avoid power struggles at home.... more+
Presenter: Paul Fogle, PhD, CCC-SLP
Based on the latest research from medical, rehabilitation, and speech-language pathology literature, this course covers essential information about moderate to severe TBI in infants (e.g., shaken baby syndrome), children, and adolescents. Numerous topics are discussed, including the unique aspects of moderate-severe TBI and SLP assessments and treatment. ... more+
Presenter: Paul Fogle, PhD, CCC-SLP
This comprehensive course discusses the types, causes, and management of mTBI in children and adolescents. Learn the signs and symptoms of mTBI and become more keenly aware of who is at risk. Presented is evaluation and management of concussion, and also the role of the SLP in helping children reintegrate back into the school environment following mTBI.... more+
Presenter: Jennifer Dahms, MS, CCC-SLP, BCS-S
This course is the third in a 3-course series on pediatric dysphagia. It covers swallowing disorders and medically-based feeding problems. Presents case studies and therapeutic interventions to address GERD, constipation, cleft lip/palate, tube feedings, prematurity, autism, attention, and oral intake of medication.... more+
Presenter: Jennifer Dahms, MS, CCC-SLP, BCS-S
This course is the second in a 3-course series on pediatric dysphagia. It covers oral sensory feeding disorders and mealtime management. Discusses deficits and corresponding treatment strategies related to bolus cohesion, bolus propulsion, oral holding, oral pocketing, oral clearing, palatal packing, and oral stuffing.... more+
Presenter: Jennifer Dahms, MS, CCC-SLP, BCS-S
This course is the first in a 3-course series on pediatric dysphagia. It presents detailed information on techniques and strategies for addressing oral motor feeding disorders. Discusses therapy techniques to address deficits of the lip, cheek, tongue lateralization, tongue elevation, biting, and chewing. Course includes video examples, case studies, lab practice and application activities. ... more+
Presenter: Cathy Alexander, MA, CCC-SLP
This course will discuss the well-documented relationship between vocabulary and reading and will present approaches for selecting vocabulary words and techniques for teaching vocabulary. Provides "ready-to-use" activities for preschool age through adolescent students. Participants will learn a framework to enhance vocabulary development. This course includes numerous downloadable, reproducible therapy resources.... more+
Presenter: Marissa Rocheleau, MA, CCC-SLP
This course is designed as an introduction to teletherapy evaluation and treatment for speech-language pathologists working with either children or adults. This course will cover client factors, privacy concerns, and technology considerations. It includes multiple samples of telepractice in action as a great visual aid for applying the material covered.... more+
Presenter: Ronda Wojcicki, MS, CCC-SLP
This course explores the perceptions of children in speech therapy from the lens of administrators, teachers, other adults and peers. The impacts of these perceptions are discussed in relation to bullying. Case studies are used to shape recommendations for creating a positive experience for children in speech therapy.... more+
Presenter: Ana Paula Mumy, SLPD, CCC-SLP
This course is designed to help speech-language pathologists collaborate with classroom teachers with greater ease and effectiveness. It also provides SLPs a bridge between learning standards and language intervention goals. Key foundational language skills are explained and creative ideas are offered... more+
Presenter: Ana Paula Mumy, SLPD, CCC-SLP
This course is designed to enable SLPs to incorporate a new working knowledge as it relates to bilingualism in the assessment and treatment of CLD populations. The material presented will allow participants to make appropriate decisions with greater confidence and expertise when working with toddlers, preschool, and school-age children.... more+
Presenter: Stephen Calculator, PhD, CCC-SLP
This course highlights functional AAC assessment and intervention strategies to foster communication, educational, and related skills in individuals with severe disabilities. Emphasis will be placed on the use of integrated models of service delivery and ecologically valid, evidence-based procedures such as natural supports, embedded goals, discipline-free objectives, skill clusters, and discrepancy analysis. Overarching themes of the presentation will be participation, membership and inclusion.... more+
Presenter: Sandra R. Holtzman, MS, CCC-SLP, COM, QOM
This course presents an overview of the specialty area of Orofacial Myology and its relationship to the field of Speech-language Pathology. Discussed are the procedures involved in examining various orofacial structures and functions. Learn which barriers interfere with successful treatment, and receive instruction for improving your client's lingual, labial and mandibular coordination skills.... more+
Presenter: Rebecca Rowe, MA, CCC-SLP
This course provides a wide-focus view on the various areas of Executive Functioning from age 3 to 18. It reviews all the major areas of Executive Functioning, intervention strategies for each, research regarding Executive Functions, co-existing conditions, and brain structures related to Executive Functioning. Includes an in-depth case study and practical strategies to implement into your clinical practice.... more+
Presenter: Diane German, PhD
Course presenter, Diane German, PhD, is a pioneer clinical researcher and clinical practitioner on the subject of Word Retrieval. This course will aid participants in developing a proven intervention program that addresses word retrieval and vocabulary deficits. Participants will learn differential diagnosis of WFD in order to better target treatment plans based on the specific error pattern.... more+
Presenter: Jennifer L. Schultz, MA, CCC-SLP
Learn a framework for developing communication goals based on the CCSS using children's literature as the context for intervention. Specific Phonemic Awareness, Listening and Speaking, and Language domain standards will be reviewed. Each standard/IEP goal will be linked to specific picture books that can be used to address the target communication skill during shared reading activities. Course focus is students in K - 5th grade.... more+
Presenter: Martha S. Burns, PhD, CCC-SLP
This course reviews and updates clinical research on speech sound disorders, language and reading disorders, and cognitive disorders in children. Each section of the course concludes with a practical summary of the newest evidence-based assessment and intervention approaches. Also includes ‘hot topics’ for clinicians in school and clinical settings.... more+
Presenters: Peggy Agee, SLPD, CCC-SLP & Lissa Power-deFur, PhD, CCC-SLP
School-based SLPs are increasingly being expected to relate their intervention with their state’s education standards. This course presents a method for analysis of standards to plan for interventions with a focus on those standards that will be challenging for children with autism. Includes case studies of elementary age students with different communication challenges.... more+
Presenters: Donna Edwards, MA, CCC-SLP, BCS-S & Lisa Rai Mabry-Price, MS, CCC-SLP
Ethical issues that arise in SLP practice may be far reaching, but proactive utilization of resources, education, professional supports and collaborative efforts help resolve conflict in a professional manner. This course reinforces the support of our professional role to serve children with feeding and swallowing disorders across settings and to advocate for those children and families for best outcomes. Includes case studies to facilitate learning.... more+
Presenter: Martha S. Burns, PhD, CCC-SLP
This practical course will review research from the new field of educational neuroscience as it applies to clinical practice with students who have speech-language and social-communication disorders. It will focus on research on the causes of language disorders, autism spectrum disorders, reading disorders and other neurodevelopmental learning disabilities. ... more+
Presenter: Martha S. Burns, PhD, CCC-SLP
This course will review the current research on disorders of attention, memory, perception, executive function and social skills in school-age children. The focus is clinical application with a review of assessments, evidence-based practice, and clinical activities that can be used in treatment sessions or in the classroom.... more+
Presenter: Elizabeth Crais, PhD, CCC-SLP
Recent evidence indicates that behavioral characteristics of ASD can be seen in some children as young as 12-15 months. This course will highlight key social communicative, sensory, and play behaviors shown to be symptomatic of ASD diagnosis. Video examples of infants and toddlers with ASD will be used to illustrate what these behaviors look like in young children.... more+
Presenter: Kathleen Scaler Scott, PhD, CCC-SLP, BCS-FD
This multifaceted course will take participants from the basics of Cluttering, on to assessment and differential diagnosis, through case studies, and then into carryover techniques for treatment. All SLPs working with pediatric and adult clients will find it highly relevant and practical.... more+
Presenters: Karin Johnson, MA, CCC-SLP & Catherine Curran, PhD, CCC-SLP
This course presents strategies to teach students to comprehend and express themselves using exposition while participating in unique, creative, and motivating experiences. The strategies presented are appropriate for use with whole-classrooms, small groups, as well as individuals. This course includes downloadable, reproducible therapy resources. Focus is children in grades 4 -12. ... more+
Presenters: Cheri Fraker, CCC-SLP, CLC & Laura Walbert, CCC-SLP, CLC
This course instructs professionals in the treatment of children with complex feeding aversion. Learn six vital steps of food chaining intervention and foundational concepts of PreChaining and Food Chaining. This course focuses on diagnosis and setting up a team care plan. Includes discussion of red flag medical, nutritional, oral sensory, motor and emotional issues that impact a child and family struggling with a pediatric feeding disorder.... more+
Presenter: Courtney Brown, MS, CCC-SLP
This course distinguishes the linguistic features of AAVE, identifies important dialectal features and markers, and integrates contrastive analysis and code-switching as effective pedagogical tools to aid in the linguistic dexterity among bidialectal AAE speakers.... more+
Presenter: Diane Bahr, MS, CCC-SLP, CIMI
This course presents strategies to help establish solid foundations for the development of normal speech and feeding behavior for young children ages birth to 2 years. Participants will learn how to keep babies and young children on track to prevent or reduce life-long feeding, speech, and mouth development problems.... more+
Presenters: Donna Edwards, MA, CCC-SLP, BCS-S & Paula Leslie, PhD, FRCSLT, CCC-SLP
This course will help to fill the information void on ethical decision making in the pediatric setting. Participants will learn how ethical healthcare is based on evidence-based practice which requires patient and family input and respect of their values. This approach can be successfully applied to practice in order to better manage complex pediatric cases. ... more+
Presenter: Marge Blanc, MA, CCC-SLP
This NLA Level 2 Course serves as the follow up to the NLA Level 1 Course (see course #e82). Discussed will be treatment for autistic children who use echolalia or who have used echolalia at an earlier stage in their language development. Treatment contexts, activities, and planning are illustrated through video clips, language transcripts, and discussion. ... more+
Presenter: Joy McGowan, MS, CCC-SLP
Presented will be guidelines for participants to use in determining the optimal AAC system to ensure successful communication across environments. Includes five critical components to consider when selecting a system. Discussed will be the functional implications of cognition, speech and language development, vision, and gross/fine motor skills. Both high and low-tech communication options will be examined, including communication boards, PECS, switches, eye-gaze, mobile technology, and speech-generating devices.... more+
Presenter: Ana Paula Mumy, SLPD, CCC-SLP
This course is an introduction to telepractice – how to get started, what is required from both the professional and the client, the pros and cons of telepractice, as well as other considerations to make telepractice a viable and successful medium for speech-language assessment and treatment.... more+
Presenter: Diane German, PhD
Presents formal and informal procedures for the diagnostic assessment of semantic and phonological based Word Finding (WF) error patterns. Includes characteristics of three semantic and phonological based WF error patterns, a lexical model representing the theoretical underpinnings of these WF error patterns, application of the standardized Test of Word Finding (TWF-3), and procedures for the identification of WF error patterns.... more+
Presenter: Elizabeth U. Grillo, PhD, CCC-SLP
This course will explore perceptual, acoustic, aerodynamic, and movement voice measures. Also discussed will be free low and high tech Internet resources that can be used to collect the measures in both children and adults. The content of this course is for all SLPs in private practice, schools, and medical settings.... more+
Presenter: Tamara Kasper, MS, CCC-SLP, BCBA
International autism expert, Tamara Kasper, will teach participants how to use non-verbal communication to jumpstart verbal communication. This intervention-focused course discusses how children with autism develop speech and language and how best to initiate interventions for children who have limited functional communication. Learn how to select first words to build language, how to use word simplification techniques to promote speech acquisition, and how selection of appropriate motivators is critical to gain progress in therapy. ... more+
Presenter: Nicole Gerami, MA, CCC-SLP
Learn new strategies for mapping out story content and structuring a basic written summary. This course will discuss narrative difficulties for autistic children, explain narrative types, and present a method of structured narrative teaching to help children comprehend and retell narratives.... more+
Presenter: Martha S. Burns, PhD, CCC-SLP
Learn approaches to help middle and high school age students compensate for Executive Function difficulties in the classroom. This practical course reviews the research on maturation of cognition in typical middle and high school age students and those with EF difficulties. Discussed will be attention, theory of mind, working memory, decision making, emotional regulation, and goal setting and how these impact classroom performance.... more+
Presenter: Patrick McKeown, MA
Presents new information on the importance of nasal breathing. Learn why nasal breathing and correct resting tongue posture are imperative for normal development of the teeth, jaw and face. Learn about the damaging effects of mouth breathing, and learn methods to reestablish healthy nasal and diaphragmatic breathing patterns.... more+
Presenter: Elizabeth U. Grillo, PhD, CCC-SLP
This course will explore the components of the Global Voice Therapy Model (GVTM). Presented will be motor learning principles applied to the GVTM, research related to the GVTM, and application of the GVTM to clinical practice. Course content is appropriate for SLPs in private practice, schools, and medical settings servicing both children and adult clients. ... more+
Presenter: Sandra R. Holtzman, MS, CCC-SLP, COM, QOM
Ankyloglossia and the SLP – To ignore it, or not? To refer it, or not? In this course, learn information critical in advising parents regarding infant feeding issues, dental concerns, emotional and social aspects, swallowing considerations, and most importantly the speech connection. Participants will be introduced to assessments and various techniques used to release the lingual frenum.... more+
Presenter: Marge Blanc, MA, CCC-SLP
This NLA Level 1 Course describes the linguistics of echolalia in language development. Consider the notion that echolalia can be shaped and modified to create functional language and that autistic children who demonstrate echolalia use this speech for intentional communication. Learn a protocol for assessing spontaneous language in autism, determining the stages of language development, and deriving appropriate language goals.... more+
Presenter: Ana Paula Mumy, SLPD, CCC-SLP
When parents and caregivers are trained to become integral parts of intervention, SLPs are able to increase the frequency and intensity of language intervention. This course details the when, why, and how to get parents and caregivers involved in the speech & language intervention process. Includes considerations of individual backgrounds, experiences, culture, and education.... more+
Presenter: Kellyn Dailey Hall, PhD, CCC-SLP
This course provides step-by-step instructions for performing and interpreting a quick, yet thorough, oral mechanism and cranial nerve exam across all ages. Includes examples and specific guidelines for interpreting the exam and translating the results into a written report.... more+
Presenter: Jennifer L. Schultz, MA, CCC-SLP
This course will provide participants with a rationale for incorporating children's literature into treatment activities rather than relying on drill-based activities. Learn to develop word learning stimuli to assist students to develop deeper word meaning knowledge through treatment activities. Example word-knowledge and word-use scoring rubrics will be shared. Tools and strategies for developing therapy materials including flashcards, mini books, word puzzles, word games, and discussion activities will be included.... more+
Presenter: Nancy Horowitz Bertsch, MA, CCC-SLP
This course is a case study of an autistic male teen's communication treatment program and his treatment outcomes. This case demonstrates the progressive changes occurring in communication skills with the use of video-feedback using audio-video technology, digital photography, and a speech generating device.... more+
Presenters: Nancy Potter, PhD, CCC-SLP & Victoria Heinlen, MS, CCC-SLP
Babble Boot Camp© (BBC) is an evidence-based and proactive intervention approach designed to build resilience against speech and language difficulties that are predictable at birth based on known risk factors. This training offers a review of early communication skills, real-life examples of BBC implementation, and hands-on practice. On course completion, early intervention SLPs and early childhood specialists will be equipped to implement BBC in any therapy environment including a virtual one.... more+
Presenter: Ana Paula Mumy, SLPD, CCC-SLP
SLPs will learn a practical and systematic method for eliciting, practicing, and refining trilled R productions, with... more+
Presenter: Sarah Panjwani, MA, CCC-SLP
Course provided a basic background in exercise physiology and its application to dysphagia rehabilitation for adults. The course will provide a... more+
Presenter: Roxann Diez Gross, PhD, CCC-SLP, ASHA Fellow
DIEZ is a respiratory-based therapeutic technique for improving esophageal clearance thus helping to eliminate the sensation of food sticking, regurgitation of undigested food, and non-pathologic globus sensation. This course will fully describe how to determine who is appropriate for this therapy, how to evaluate these patients, provide instructions in how to teach the DIEZ technique to adults and children, and offer tips for making the technique habitual. ... more+
Presenters: Megan Brazas, MA, CCC-SLP, QOM & Beth Speaker-Christensen, MA, CCC-SLP/L, ATP
This comprehensive online training provides a step-by-step process to conduct dynamic and collaborative AAC assessment, select optimal AAC systems for your learners, effectively coach communication partners, understand and use AAC prompt hierarchies, and expand vocabulary using AAC treatment principles. Case studies will be presented to facilitate the AAC evaluation and assessment process and to aid in treatment planning. Downloadable bonus resources allow you to get started with assessment and therapy with your current caseload.... more+
Presenters: Maureen Lefton-Greif, PhD, CCC-SLP, BCS-S, ASHA Fellow & Bonnie Martin-Harris, PhD, CCC-SLP, BCS-S, ASHA Honors
BaByVFSSImP© - Establishing a standardized swallowing assessment protocol for bottle-fed babies. Online training course coming fall 2024. Click the green button to be notified when this course becomes available.... more+