CEU Courses for SLPs

After the wheelchair seating assessment is complete, specific client needs must be matched to seating product interventions. Various categories of seating systems, their clinical indicators and constituents, including primary support surfaces, secondary support components, and materials, are discussed in this course. This course is intended to help the learner prepare for the Assistive Technology Professional (ATP) exam.

Electronic Aids to Daily Living (EADLs), which provide an alternative means of controlling devices primarily within the home environment, are discussed in this course to prepare the learner for the Assistive Technology Professional (ATP) exam. Topics include examples of EADLs, potential limitations of consumer technologies for those with disabilities, and situations where disability-specific aids may be needed.

This course covers assistive technology (AT) Assessment and Service Delivery in the context of preparing for the Assistive Technology Professional (ATP) examination. AT assessment components and service delivery models, as well as AT team members, outcomes, ethics, and standards of practice are discussed.

This course presents sensory technologies in the context of preparing for the Assistive Technology Professional (ATP) examination. Sensory impairments (hearing loss and deafness, low vision and blindness, and deaf-blindness), as well as various assistive technologies to augment or replace an individual’s sensory loss, are discussed in this course.

Dependent mobility devices, which are not intended for self-propulsion, are discussed in this course. These devices include adaptive strollers, which may be used to meet small children’s positional and dependent mobility needs, as well as transport chairs and tilt in space, reclining and standard manual wheelchairs, which may be used for quick trips or a temporary back-up to a power wheelchair. This course is intended to help the learner prepare for the Assistive Technology Professional (ATP) exam.

This course provides speech-language pathologists with the basics needed to get started with stuttering intervention. The importance of acceptance of stuttering is discussed, and service recommendations, including treatment protocols and specific activities, are described for preschool-aged, school-aged, and adult clients.

The rationale and methodology for assessing six core areas in school-aged stuttering children are described in this course. These areas include stuttering-related background information; speech, language, and temperament; speech fluency and stuttering behavior; reactions of the speaker and of people in the environment to stuttering; and adverse impact of stuttering.

A comprehensive look at tracheostomies from the patient's point of view is provided in this course. Tracheostomy tube and speaking valve characteristics are described, and ways to improve interactions between the provider and patient, particularly those who use augmentative/alternative communication (AAC), are discussed.

A framework for better understanding challenging behavior is described in this course. Reasons behind behaviors, as well as strategies to prevent or reduce challenging behaviors and specific techniques for teaching replacement skills, are discussed.

School-based SLPs must sometimes deal with contentious or litigious parents and attend Individualized Education Program (IEP) meetings that include advocates or lawyers. Topics that may cause conflict, tactics that advocates and lawyers may use to control meetings, and strategies for pre-meeting preparation and confident participation in difficult meetings are described in this course.