Must-Have Courses for New School SLPs

I am a subscriber and a lover of SpeechPathology.com. I recently talked about why I subscribed to this site in another post. For only $99, you can get unlimited CEUs for the entire year-- which is especially useful if you are just starting out or switching settings! If this is something you've been considering, take the leap and join using my affiliate link using code KAYLASLP to get a free month-- because I'm about to show you a ton of good information that's waiting for you on their site!

GETTING STARTED WITH ANY AGE 

These are the top priority courses I would recommend to anyone who is going to work in a school setting. Whether you are a newly graduated CF (congrats!) or a veteran SLP who is changing settings, these are the courses that lay a nice foundation for working in schools. Here, you will learn the acronyms associated with working in schools, the general framework of the IEP, how to collect data, how to write school-approved SMART goals, how to use AAC in the classroom, and when it is time to dismiss students.

• Back to Basics: IEP and IFSP - Everything You Need to Know from Planning to Implementation
• Back to Basics: Let's Talk Data Collection
• Back to Basics: Goal Writing for School-based SLPs
• Back to Basics: Low-tech AAC Options and Strategies for Use in the Classroom
• Dismissal Decisions And Student Motivation: When is dismissal the answer?

 

PRESCHOOL/ELEMENTARY

If you plan to work with younger children, these are some helpful courses that will prove useful in the school setting. Topics include how to use books to target language and literacy with younger students, how to analyze and treat phonological processes in young children, how to target grammar difficulties, and how to make language sampling work for you.

• Journey from Preschool to Elementary School: Language and Literacy Toolkit for SLPs
• Updates in Phonological Process Analysis in Preschoolers
• Evidence-Based Approaches for Treating the Grammatical Weaknesses of Children
• Language Sampling Made Practical

MIDDLE/HIGH SCHOOL

If you will be working with older students, these are some helpful courses that will prove useful in the school setting. Topics include how to use books to target language and literacy with older students, how to work on social language with adolescents, how to be a partner in collaborative therapy, how to target grammar difficulties, and how to target those tricky lingering sounds with older students.

• Collaborative Therapy Isn't Pushy
• Helping Adolescents with ASD Access the Curriculum Using Social Thinking Strategies
• Journey from Middle to High School: Language and Literacy Toolkit for SLPs
• Sleuthing for /s/ and /r/: Facilitating strategies for residual sound errors

TELETHERAPY

Whether you have intentionally planned on going into school-based teletherapy, or you were thrown into it post COVID-19, these are some nice courses that teach the basics of getting started and how to get creative with using teletherapy with children.

• Language Therapy via Telepractice: Imagine the Possibilities
• Forced Into Telepractice With No Idea What To Do Next! The Ins & Outs to Becoming a Teletherapist
• Telepractice: What You Need to Know for Practical Application in Pediatrics
• Telepractice: Using Distance Technology to Connect, Communicate, & Enhance Language Learning in Young Children with Hearing Loss
• Connecting to Communicate: Defining Telepractice (3 Part Series)

PROFESSIONAL ISSUES

Working in schools will present a fair share of issues (just as in any other setting). Here are some courses that will show you how to advocate effectively for yourself, your treatment/service delivery choices, your caseload/workload, and your students.

• How to Advocate for Students with IEPs through Professional Role Empowerment Strategies
• 20Q: Education Standards: Is There a Role for Speech-Language Pathologists?
• Why Nonspeech Oral Motor Exercises are Not Effective for Changing Speech Sound Production
• Promoting the 3:1 Caseload Model Effectively
• Service Delivery: Thinking Outside the Box!

So again, if you think these courses might be useful to you (and I'm telling you, as a school-based SLP-- they will be VERY useful), consider joining their subscription service! You can use my affiliate link with code KAYLASLP to join now by clicking here!

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