SLP Learning Hour

Guest: Judith Likavec Davis - MS, SLP - In the final and sixth episode of Ease Into AAC, Kate Thomson and her guest Judith Likavec Davis will delve into what a life with AAC as a primary communication method at home can look like. They’ll discuss some myths and misconceptions that parents may have, and provide effective strategies for parents to implement AAC at home.

Guests: Darren Trentephol, Jeff Stephan & Amy Goldman - In the fifth episode of Ease into AAC, Kate Thomson is joined by Darren Trentephol, a Certified Practicing Speech Pathologist and the President of AGOSCI from Queensland, Australia, Jeff Stepan, a Speech Language Pathologist from America, and Amy Goldman, the President of the US Society for Augmentative and Alternative Communication (USSA...

Guest: Cheri Dodge Chin, ClinScD, CCC-SLP - In the fourth episode of Ease into AAC, Kate Thomson and her guest Dr. Cheri Dodge Chin explore the use of AAC in a classroom setting. For clients to achieve their communication goals and integrate into a classroom setting, having access to a communication method like AAC is essential. Encouraging AAC use in a school setting requires collaboration betwee...

Guests: Sheree Brisbane, Hayley Hobson & Christa Wessels - In the third episode of Ease into AAC, Kate speaks with three Speech Pathologists about the different aspects of implementing AAC with clients. From getting familiar with AAC through speech therapy sessions to using it at home and in life, speech pathologists need to know how to best support their clients in using it every day. Kate, C...

In the second episode of Ease into AAC, Kate Thomson dives deep into the different assessment considerations for Speech Pathologists to identify their client’s AAC needs. Assessment is one of the most critical aspects of client care as a speech pathologist, so it makes sense to dedicate an entire episode of this series to explore this topic in depth. Discover how to determine which AAC method will...

In the first episode of the 6-part Ease into AAC Podcast mini-series, Kate Thomson explores the foundations of Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) and what makes this communication method so essential and valuable. During this episode, Kate introduces you to the differences between low-tech and high-tech AAC options and lifts the lid on common misconceptions about using AAC. This epis...

Guest: Terlenda Lassiter, MA, CCC-SLP - This course explores dysphagia concerns that may be associated with concussion and head injury. The presenter discusses the symptoms of dysphagia and provides case studies of athletes with dysphagia following concussion/TBI.

Guest: Alicia Smalls, MPH, MA, CF-SLP, CBIS - This course explores the role of speech-language pathologists in public health, including increasing their knowledge of the incidence and prevalence based on risk factors, identifying and addressing disparities in access to healthcare and speech-language pathology referrals, and strategies to tackle the silent epidemic by contributing to sports-related...

Guest: Jay Lucker, Ed. D., CCC-A/SLP, FAAA - This course explores several topics on sports concussions and hidden hearing loss. Dr. Lucker highlights how hearing loss and auditory processing disorders impact student-athletes with sports concussions, in addition to the steps to take to check to see if an athlete may have an auditory processing disorder after a concussion.

Guest: Tiffany C. Gurley-Nettles, Ph. D., CCC-SLP - This course explores neuropsychology to understand behavior as it relates to the brain and the influences of illnesses or brain injuries on behavior and cognitive functions. Dr. Gurley-Nettles discusses how brain injury and behavioral and emotional changes emerge from the injury itself, the distress from adapting to the changes following the TBI,...

Guest: Shawnee Harle, MA - This course explores mental toughness and emotional intelligence as it relates to athletes and sports concussion management, however, these strategies are also for SLPs and AuDs to help them ignite the leader within. Helping student-athletes manage the fear behind concussions, which may lead to reducing the stigma, increased reporting of signs and symptoms, and decreased...

Guest: Danielle Hyde, MA, SLP-CCC, Reg. CASLPO - This course explores helping athletes who have sustained sports-related concussions develop their communication and cognitive skills to gain independence, reduce their frustrations, successfully return to work or school, and return to the activities and social interactions that are important to them. Danielle discusses skilled assessment and treatme...

*** This episode is not available for ASHA CEUs.**** Guest: Dr. Arlene Carney, Ph. D., CCC-A - This podcast provides listeners with scenarios and answers to questions about ethical issues related to the supervision of audiology assistants, avoiding conflicts of interest in working with device manufacturers, ethical issues that can arise when managing instrumentations, and the relation between ASHA...

*** This episode is not available for ASHA CEUs.**** Guest: Lynne Brady Wagner, MA, CCC-SLP - This podcast provides listeners with scenarios and answers to questions about ethical issues regarding potential conflicts between autonomy and beneficence in providing services to cognitively communicatively impaired adults, ethical issues related to informed consent in providing services for patients wi...

*** This episode is not available for ASHA CEUs.**** Guest: Pamela Wiley, PhD, CCC-SLP - This podcast will introduce listeners to the importance of ethical decision-making in private practice, how ethics influences hiring and personnel supervision, the role of ethics in building business relationships, how ethics influences the growth and development of private practice, and the relationship of et...

*** This episode is not available for ASHA CEUs.**** Guest: Lynn Williams, PhD, CCC-SLP - This podcast will introduce listeners to strategies for developing interprofessional teams, the requirements for ethical interprofessional practice, strategies for addressing and negotiating conflicts and competition in interprofessional practice, developing successful interprofessional teams in school practi...

*** This episode is not available for ASHA CEUs.**** Guest: Yvette Hyter, PhD, CCC-SLP - This podcast will introduce listeners to the role of ethics in international practice, the types of unintended outcomes that can occur when practicing overseas, the use of culturally responsive approaches to assessment and intervention, the international guidelines and policies to be aware of in the developmen...

*** This episode is not available for ASHA CEUs.**** Guest: Lauren Calendruccio, Ph. D., CCC-A - This podcast will provide listeners with information about the ethical requirements for research participants’ informed consent, ethical issues related to publication of research findings, culturally appropriate approaches to research design and implementation, confidentiality and security of research...

*** This episode is not available for ASHA CEUs.**** Guest: Lynne Brady Wagner, MA, CCC-SLP - This podcast will provide listeners with information about the foundational principles of ASHA’s Code of Ethics, ethical issues surrounding palliative care and patient safety, the relationship between ethics and cultural competence and cultural sensitivity in medical speech-language pathology practice, an...

Guest: Melissa Jakubowitz, MA, CCC-SLP - This podcast will introduce listeners to the required ethical considerations in developing and establishing a telepractice, requirements for selecting telepractice platforms, the confidentiality of client information, licensure for international telepractice services, client safety during telepractice sessions, and ASHA Code of Ethics principles and rules t...

Guest: Theresa Rodgers, MA, CCC-SLP, ASHA-F, EdS (LD) - This podcast introduces listeners to scenarios that explore ethical violations that can occur in school practice related to overly large caseloads, student confidentiality issues, telepractice, client abandonment, ethical issues that can arise when a school clinician has a private practice and issues related to clinicians’ lack of understandi...

Guest: Melanie Hudson, CCC-SLP, ASHA Fellow - This podcast provides listeners with scenarios and answers to questions about ethical issues related to initiation and termination of supervision, the ethics requirements for supervisor client/clinical fellow communication, financial compensation for supervisors, and the principals and rules in ASHA’s Code of Ethics that provide guidance on the conduct...