This course reviews various oxygen delivery systems with discussion on how these may impact swallow evaluations and clinical approaches. Risks of aspiration related to respiratory distress and for those with high oxygen requirements is presented. A deep dive of high-flow nasal cannula and the current literature that discusses its potential impact on adult oropharyngeal swallowing is included....more+

This course provides essential information on managing complex patients who have multiple diagnoses impacting swallowing function. Discussed will be swallow function and treatment planning as related to body systems, the aging process, and patient diagnostic reports...more+

This course provides the critical background and foundational knowledge for developing and improving clinical RMT programs, including interpretation of maximum inspiratory pressure (MIP) and maximum expiratory pressure (MEP)....more+

Learn to problem solve a range of conditions that may occur when working with patients who have indwelling tracheostomy tubes. Identify symptoms that could indicate a patient may benefit from a different type of tracheostomy tube...more+

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....more+

This course will review the literature and discuss evidence-based ways to incorporate mindfulness practices into speech, language, cognitive and voice therapy for the adult population. The course will also...more+

Participants will learn strategies to help establish solid foundations for the development of normal speech and feeding behavior for young children (birth to age 2) to prevent or reduce life-long feeding, speech, and mouth development problems....more+

Provides new information on the importance of nasal and diaphragmatic breathing and detailed instruction on how to address dysfunctional breathing patterns in children and adults. Learn methods to improve voice projection and the ability to sustain speech, as well as reducing mucus production, coughing, fatigue, and drying of the upper airways....more+

Do you want to start a SLP private practice but aren’t sure where to begin? Do you 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 client populations. Topics include...more+

This course demonstrates how the MBSImP™ approach can be used to link physiologic components of swallowing with evidence-based interventions to specifically target swallowing impairment. Patient MBS study cases are presented, and participants are guided through selection of targeted interventions and treatment planning. Content presented is appropriate for SLPs who assess and/or treat adult patients with dysphagia. Prior completion of the MBSImP Training is suggested, but not a requirement.  ...more+

Presented by dysphagia expert and MBSImP™ developer, Bonnie Martin-Harris, PhD, this course provides a comprehensive overview of the MBSImP™ Approach and Protocol. Includes an in-depth discussion of 17 physiologic factors requisite for the execution of normal swallowing. It then introduces a scoring metric to profile and quantify physiologic swallow impairment across these 17 components. Course focus is the adult population....more+

The MBS study, while a clinically useful tool, remains a subjective test. The MBSImP™ Approach provides a standardized and evidence-based protocol to interpret and communicate MBS study results in a manner that is consistent, specific, accurate, and objective. Course participants will learn to apply the MBSImP™ standardized scoring metric to profile and quantify physiologic swallow impairment in the adult population....more+

This NLA Level 3 Course presents an all-new look at Natural Language Acquisition (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, complemented by a look at the groundbreaking work in the...more+

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 to analyze ethical concerns and to implement solutions to maintain ethical practice when supervising SLPAs will be provided....more+

Participants will learn evidence-based treatment techniques to address complex sentence comprehension and expression in play, shared book reading, and curriculum-based activities. Tools and techniques for assessment to identify client strengths and needs related to complex sentence forms will be shared. ...more+

Increasingly, SLPs are supervising SLP assistants (SLPAs). The issues, competencies, and skills needed for a successful long-term supervisor/supervisee relationship are different from those required for supervision of students and clinical fellowships. This course will introduce two important factors...more+

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. Course focus is ages: Preschool - Adolescents....more+

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. This course takes a deep dive into academic language and how to teach it in meaningful contexts....more+

For SLPs and OTs, this course serves as the formal training requisite for the implementation of the What’s Next?™ treatment protocol.  What’s Next?™ is a structured, measurable and evidence-based program to teach individuals with dementia and other cognitive disorders to maximize independence and decrease reliance on caregivers to perform the vital functional skills required for independent living....more+

This course features a case review of a man with dementia living in a long-term care facility. He is not communicative, sits in a wheelchair, has some swallowing difficulties, and is unable to feed himself. There are DNR, DNI, and DNH orders in his medical record. His family has asked that a Heimlich maneuver not be performed if he were to choke. This presentation will explore the role of the SLP as an integral member of the ethics team....more+

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. Topics will include valuable resources and materials to implement in treatment, collaboration strategies, real videos of treatment, and case studies....more+

This course serves as the MBSImP™ 10-Year Renewal Course for Registered MBSImP Clinicians. This course will review MBSImP scoring, including nuances for assessing the more challenging physiologic components. Updates on recent clinical research and future directions is included. Eligibility for enrollment requires prior completion of the courses, #e01 and #e128....more+

Can you allow a patient who is aspirating thin liquids to drink water? Water protocols have long been controversial as dysphagia management practices and likely will continue to be controversial for the foreseeable future. This course covers the evolution of water protocols including why they were developed and why they continue to be relevant today.  ...more+

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+

This course was designed for SLPs with the following levels of voice management experience: new clinicians who need additional training on the fundamental principles of voice management; clinicians who infrequently see voice clients; and for experienced clinicians who never received intensive training on managing voice disorders. Topics include: physiology and acoustics of the vocal mechanism, Semi-Occluded Vocal Tract (SOVT) techniques, how to care for the vocal instrument, and voice care myths....more+

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+

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+

This course focuses on MCI assessment.  Topics presented will include the value of early identification, evidence-based in-depth guidelines for assessment, information about types of assessments — both screening measures and broad based neuropsychological batteries, the factors to consider in interpreting test performance, and counseling clients given their test performance....more+

This course reviews and updates the newer neuroscience research on processes of neurodevelopment emphasizing auditory, cognitive and communication networks. Research is explained and reviewed followed by clinical applications and evidence-based treatment. ...more+

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+

This online course presents strategies to teach children the language skills needed for face-to-face conversations. It includes 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+

This course explores the multisystem breakdown of the swallow as well as the broadening role of the SLP in dysphagia therapy. The five systems of dysphagia (cognitive - neurological - respiratory - gastrointestinal - muscular) are discussed with explanation of how disorders in these systems can have a devastating effect...more+

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+

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+

Diversity in healthcare goes far beyond a language barrier. It’s about understanding the larger context of culture and diversity. This course will help you understand the impact of dysphagia on culturally/linguistically diverse populations and navigate ethical conflicts to provide culturally responsive care. ...more+

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+

Let’s Talk Today! is a practical resource SLPs can use to engage parents in their child’s language development or improvement. It is appropriate for children ages 3 to 7 who are achieving typical language milestones, or for children struggling due to a speech and language impairment. This course includes a 12-month dateless calendar with over 400 fun and interactive activities...more+

This course provides Speech-Language Pathologists with therapy design considerations to help mitigate interactional breakdowns so speech therapy can be more productive from the start.  Through connecting empirical research and our understanding of ASD learning style challenges ...more+

This course provides Speech-Language Pathologists practical steps and strategies to move children with an autism spectrum disorder from unconventional, mechanical and inflexible verbal exchanges to ...more+

This course provides Speech-Language Pathologists with step-by-step strategies to design and implement Joint Action Routines (JARs) as a preferred tool to facilitate verbal communication in children with an autism spectrum disorder.  JARs are best practice, naturalistic, social-communicative routines that...more+

This course provides specific goals and strategies for speech-language pathologists to use at home, school, or therapy to help move children with autism from...more+

This course takes the empirical research on ASD peer-mediated interventions and provides practical, common-sense strategies for speech-language pathologists to help children with autism learn how to increase their social abilities with friends....more+

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...more+

This course will explore the use of meditation and mindfulness practices for the direct application to pediatric speech-language pathology.  Participants will be provided with...more+

The purpose of this course is to encourage SLPs who work with children ages 3 to 12 to effectively promote speech sound carryover.  Principles of using a child’s daily environment and routines for speech sound carryover is compared to developing a child’s language skills through...more+

We spend more time hearing than talking, yet we don't remember the majority of what we hear.  This becomes especially relevant as many SLPs and audiologists move to telepractice, telesupervision, and tele-education. In this online seminar come and learn to truly listen as we explore types of listening and obstacles to listening well in the online classroom or therapy room....more+

This course connects our treatment with curriculum-related goals the child is learning in the classroom. This session covers from early science vocabulary (kindergarten) through adolescents. Learn evidence-based intervention strategies for...more+

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....more+

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+

This course reviews current neuroscience research on mechanisms of neuroplasticity and is applicable to all age ranges. The specific emphasis is on cognitive-communication therapeutic drivers that positively affect brain maturation, reorganization, and recovery after injury. The course provides a practical comprehensive overview of treatment methodology (the ‘How’ of therapy) and,...more+

This course is intended for speech-language pathologists who work with children who may have adverse childhood experiences (ACEs). It will address the effects...more+

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+

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, Audiologists, 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+

The course will cover issues related to choosing treatment materials for telepractice, including document cameras, iPad mirroring, and online resources, as well as a review of recent telepractice literature and considerations for...more+

Language performance deficits are early indicators of MCI, and SLPs are uniquely qualified to identify those at risk for MCI and provide clinical intervention. Early identification is vital to delay or prevent progression to dementia, and diagnostic criteria and test performance cutoffs are now available. This course focuses on cognitive impairment and provides an overview of what cognition is, how memory is formed, types of memory, and a substantive segment on treatments and how they relate to the principles of neuroplasticity....more+

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+

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...more+

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...more+

This course explores voice management across the gender spectrum, with a focus on methods and strategies to alter voice characteristics. Participants will learn how to approach consultation, assessment, generalization, maintenance, vocal hygiene, and...more+

This course focuses on innovative strategies and techniques for teaching grammatical morphology for children ages three through ten years of age. Children with language impairments often have difficulties in many areas of language, but...more+

This course provides the practicing clinician with the most up-to-date tools and methods, starting from the initial assessment, to establishing goals, to selecting an evidence-based treatment plan. The focus throughout the course is on...more+

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. ...more+

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+

In this course, you will learn the science behind stress, how it shows up in the day of an SLP, and how to manage...more+

This presentation will focus on assessment and treatment techniques to reduce aspiration risk at the breast and will highlight how to overcome obstacles to...more+

This course covers evaluation and treatment of apraxia of speech in adults.  The emphasis throughout is on practice. The first section covers evaluation with a focus on the perceptual ...more+

Fulfill your ASHA Mentoring and Supervisory course requirements. This 10.5 hour course includes all 10 learning modules of this course series, "Topics on Supervision for Speech-Language Pathologists". Specifically, this course will cover ...more+

Fulfill your ASHA Mentoring and Supervisory course requirements. This 2-hour course considers supervision across settings including 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+

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+

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+

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 to and leading conferences with supervisees....more+

Fulfill your ASHA Mentoring and Supervisory course requirements. This 2-hour course will address understanding roles & communicating expectations, and also discuss individualizing styles & levels of supervision. By reviewing evidence-based research on supervision, we discovered that students’ perceptions...more+

This course introduces Dr. Patrick Rydell’s Learning Style Profile©. It includes evidence-based interventions uniquely designed to help children with ASD prepare for natural, reciprocal social interactions and conversation. Participants will learn to identify...more+

Which is a better predictor for an individual to develop pneumonia: a diagnosis of dysphagia, or poor oral hygiene? The answer to this question may surprise you. This course reviews current oral care practices and the evidence-based research supporting the need for improved oral care in the at-risk patient. ...more+

This course explains how to reduce or eliminate the need for constant monitoring to maintain communication and swallowing goals. At the highest level, athletes have stored procedural memories ready to use in their sport. They can adjust these movements in the context of the game with consideration of fatigue, situation, environmental conditions and opponent. Can your patients do this with more basic activities in life, such as find the right word, count, swallow,...more+

This course is intended to educate SLPs about GERD and LPR as it affects both swallowing and voice disorders in adults. Learn how anatomy and physiology relate to the genesis of reflux for a more complete understanding of the syndromes. Understand the role SLPs can play in assessment, as well as behavioral and medical treatment....more+

This course teaches clinicians effective and practical strategies to manage challenging and defiant behavior in their young clients. Children with difficult temperaments and those with developmental delays may have...more+

Sixty-four percent of shaken babies can demonstrate speech and language deficits with life-long consequencies. This course covers essential information about moderate to severe TBI in infants (e.g., shaken baby syndrome), children and adolescents that is based on the latest research from medical, rehabilitation, and speech-language pathology literature. ...more+

This is possibly the most comprehensive online training program for speech-language pathologists on the types, causes and management of Mild Traumatic Brain Injury (mTBI) in children and adolescents.  Participants will increase their knowledge base regarding the...more+

When working with children who have oropharyngeal dysphagia, the speech-language pathologist will need to be aware of all possible signs and symptoms of swallowing difficulties. Once a diagnosis is made, we need to develop an appropriate therapy plan that addresses...more+

Many children have difficulties with an over-reactive or under-reactive sensory system. These reactions can have a negative impact on the child's ability to manage food. Therapy techniques that are used to assist with bolus management can be developed to help children be more successful eaters. This course includes video...more+

Oral motor feeding disorders are quite common in the world of pediatric feeding disorders. It is important that the speech-language pathologist who is working with this population understand the sensory innervation and muscle movements that contribute to such areas of deficits. The exercises that we use with children to improve their overall...more+

This course includes over 80 vocabulary intervention activities, including 20 "ready-to-use" activities for preschool through adolescent students. Participants will learn two approaches for selecting vocabulary words and nine techniques for teaching vocabulary....more+

This course is designed as an introduction to teletherapy evaluation and treatment for speech-language pathologists working with either children or adults. The course will cover client factors, privacy concerns,...more+

This course explores what research says about the perceptions of children in speech therapy from the lens of administrators, teachers, other adults and peers. The impacts of these perceptions...more+

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...more+

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...more+

This course is designed to help SLPs make phonetic placement strategies accessible to students and teachers for target sounds frequently in error. The strategies are presented in a way that...more+

This course introduces and reviews FEES as a tool for visualizing, monitoring and treating swallowing function. Guidelines for selecting FEES or videofluoroscopic instrumentation are presented. The learner will understand the equipment used to complete the exam and the steps necessary to gain competency in performance of the exam....more+

This online course highlights functional AAC assessment and intervention strategies that have been found to be highly useful in fostering communication, educational, and related skills in individuals with severe disabilities, including those described as beginning communicators....more+

This course presents an overview of the specialty area of orofacial myology and its relationship to the field of speech-language pathology. Also covered are the procedures involved...more+

This course explores integrating into the clinical swallow exam the concepts of esophageal physiology evaluation as well as screening for signs and symptoms of pathology in the lower GI tract. ...more+

This course is designed to provide a wide-focus view on the various areas of Executive Functioning from age 3 to 18. It reviews all the...more+

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....more+

This course will cover disorders of cognition commonly associated with right hemisphere strokes in adults, including attention, executive function, awareness, and memory....more+

This presentation will provide participants with a framework for developing goals based on the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) and activities using children's literature as the context for intervention for students with communication impairments in Kindergarten through Fifth grades. Specific Phonemic Awareness...more+

In this course, we will review ways that dysphagia management, cognitive management, and communication enhancement differ in End of Life care in comparison to our other scope of practice. We will address early decision making and...more+

This course reviews and updates clinical research on speech sound disorders, language and reading disorders, and cognitive disorders in children. Briefly looking back at the views of significant contributors to our field, the course provides historical perspective for understanding some of the differences in...more+

This course will discuss the role of the speech-language pathologist in the evaluation and treatment of Esophageal Dysphagia. Learn to identify common disorders and diseases of the esophagus during assessment, and treatment options to improve swallowing function in patients with esophageal dysphagia. ...more+

This session will briefly review the history of the Common Core State Standards and present a method for analysis of standards to plan for intervention for students with autism spectrum disorders (ASD)....more+

In this complete therapy program, learn evaluation of stuttering and step-by-step instructions in treatment as well as specific instruction for at home carryover....more+

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. Includes over 40 innovative lessons!...more+

This is an introduction to the philosophy and brief history of NDT. Course includes the problem solving analysis using the International Classification of Functions that is a hallmark of NDT....more+

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. Specific strategies are presented...more+

This online course will examine factors that affect communication and swallowing performance for adult patients with tracheostomy tubes with and without mechanical ventilation....more+