CEU Challenge: 15 Free CEU's in 7 Weeks

Background

Let's look back in time to December 29-30, 2012. That was the weekend after Christmas. You were all having quality time with your families right? You'd think I would have been doing the same, but no. Instead, I was sitting at my computer while my husband had quality time with the children. I had left my ASHA and state licence renewals to the last minute and still needed 5 more CEUs before I could ethically renew my licences. I logged on to the Linguisystems Free CEU page and dug in. I did get it all done. All CEU requirements are met and licences are current. However, I really do need a plan that doesn't involve frantic, last minute sacrifices of quality family time during the holidays.

The CEU Challenge

I'm going to sit down and earn CEUs every week (all of the LinguiSystems CEU courses are worth more than one) until I get the 15 I need this calendar year. You are welcome to join me. Here's my syllabus:

• Week 1: Counseling Theories and Skills for SLPs - 0.2 CEUs
• Week 2: Evidence Based Practice - 0.2 CEUs
• Week 3: Intervention Programming for Nonverbal Children - 0.2 CEUs
• Week 4: Introduction to Ethical Decision Making in Speech-Language Pathology - 0.2 CEUs
• Week 5: HFA, AS, & NVLD: Differential Diagnosis by the SLP - 0.3 CEUs
• Week 6: Reading Comprehension in Secondary Students: Assessment - 0.2 CEUs
• Week 7: Reading Comprehension in Secondary Students: Intervention - 0.2 CEUs

What You Need to Do

1. Get a free account with Linguisystems. If you're a member of the ASHA CEU Registry, have your ASHA account number handy. If you give them your account number when you register they will automatically report your CEU credits to ASHA each time you complete a course.
2. Enroll in the course of the week. I'll be doing Week 1: Counseling Theories and Skills for SLPs this week and reporting back next Friday (January 25). If you don't like that course, pick an alternate. I was somewhat limited in the courses I could put on the syllabus because I took several of their courses last year.
3. Read the course materials and take the quiz. Come back each Friday to hear what I thought about the course and give your own opinions.

That's it. In two months we'll all be done with our annual CEU requirements.

Just Released and Coming Soon at the Testy Shop

As you probably noticed, I just released a new /ɑ/ speech therapy kit in the Testy Shop. I wanted to specifically mention that this is not new content. Everything included in the new kit is included in the larger Simple Vowels speech therapy kit. So if you already own the Vowels kit you have no reason to buy this new one.

I had a request from a reader who needed just the /ɑ/ materials from the Vowels kit for her student and couldn't afford to buy the entire vowels kit right now. I'm offering the mini-kit for only $4.95 so if you've been thinking about trying a premium kit, but wanted to check one out at a lower price point, here is your opportunity.

I have started working on the next kit. It will be an /f/ Speech Therapy Kit and will include materials designed to let you teach /f/ in Initial, Medial, Final, and Mixed positions from a motor-speech articulation approach. I'm hoping to get it done in the next couple of weeks and make it available in the shop in early February.

Speech Therapy Kit: /ɑ/ Card Sets and Resources

/ɑ/ $4.95

• Check out additional speech kits in the store!
• Automatic discounts of 20-30% apply when buying 2 or more sets.

Need to teach a child to make an /ɑ/?

• Tired of buying card sets and resource books that don't work for your students?
• Need the convenience of printing resources from your own computer?
• Want to find a wide variety of therapy resources in a single, instantly downloadable, source?

Motor-Speech Articulation Method:
/ɑ/ Card Sets and Resources

Note: All of the contents in this therapy kit are included in the larger Simple Vowels kit. If you already own the Simple Vowels kit you do not need to purchase this item.

This comprehensive therapy kit and manual has been designed from the ground up to take a motor-speech approach to speech therapy. Target words are simple in syllable shape and avoid consonant blends and vocalic /r/ sounds. They are sortable by increasing difficulty of phonemic complexity. Begin with the easiest cards and work your way up to harder ones. Every set includes phonemic variety in order to practice with different coarticulation effects and maximize carryover and generalization.

All therapy cards are illustrated in color. The resource is written to be accessible to both speech therapists and parents working with children at home. This therapy kit is ideal for targeting productions of the /ɑ/ sound when working with children with Childhood Apraxia of Speech, Phonological Disorders, Simple Articulation Disorders, Hearing-Impairment, and any other population that needs work to remediate speech.

Printable /ɑ/ Resources Included:

• CV and VC Syllable Worksheets
• 44 One-Syllable Picture Cards sortable by vowel, difficulty, syllable shape, and phonological process
• 8 sets of Minimal Pairs
• Homework Sheets (Levels 1-3)
• Story Booklet
• Race to the Top Speech Game

Additional Resources Included:

• 13 Games and Activity Suggestions
• Sample Therapy Sequence from Isolation to Generalization
• Overview of Speech Disorders
• Guides to Understanding Simple Vowels and Consonants
• Gestural Prompt for /ɑ/
• Word Lists
• Modifiable Therapy Variables Chart
• Multisensory Cues Chart
• Glossary of Terms

Sample Pages

/ɑ/ $4.95

• Check out additional speech kits in the store!
• Automatic discounts of 20-30% apply when buying 2 or more sets.