Good continuing education courses are an efficient way to keep abreast of new developments. The presenter saves you hours by reading the literature and distilling the most important information. This allows you to learn what you need to know in a short period of time.
Subscription services are great, because you pay one yearly fee and then you can take as many of their courses as you want. But many excellent courses are only available on a pay-as-you-go model.
In addition to courses, we can also learn a lot from podcasts, books, and other publications.
Outline:
- ASHA requirements and resources.
- Earning an ACE award.
- Medbridge discount.
- Medical SLP Collective.
- SpeechPathology.com.
- 40+ places to find continuing education for SLPs.
- Learning from podcasts.
- Read to learn.
- Related Eat, Speak, & Think posts.
ASHA requirements and resources
ASHA requires that speech-language pathologists earn 30 Certification Maintenance Hours during each 3-year period in order to maintain their CCCs.
Starting with the 1/1/2020 – 12/31/2022 interval, at least one hour must be in the area of ethics. And two hours in the area of supervision or clinical instruction is required once for anyone who supervises a student or Clinical Fellow. Here are two free supervision courses that expire 7/26/2021.
Search ASHA’s CEFind to find ASHA-approved continuing education courses.
Earning an ACE award
If you complete 70 Certification Maintenance Hours (7.0 CEUs) within a 36-month period and you participate in the ASHA CE Registry, then you will automatically earn an ACE award.
Medbridge discount
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Medical SLP Collective
The Medical SLP Collective* is a subscription-based membership group. The Collective helps SLPs practice at the top of their license by providing high-quality training, resources, and access to experts.
* This is not an affiliate link. If you mention my name (Lisa Young) when you sign up, we will both get a free month! I’ve been a member of the Medical SLP Collective since the beginning and have found it to be tremendously helpful.
There are many perks, including free access to SLP experts, excellent CE courses, demos, and simulations. The free downloads include ready-to-use inservices, patient education handouts, exercise handouts, and provider handouts.
Expert clinicians and researchers vet the CE courses and downloadable resources.
The resources fall under these categories:
- Adult language
- Aphasia
- Audiology
- AAC
- Burn
- Cognitive-Communication
- DEI
- Disorders of Consciousness
- Dysphagia
- Education and Training Issues
- Ethics
- Head & Neck Cancer
- Health Literacy
- Leadership
- Motor Speech
- Myofunctional Therapy
- Pediatrics
- Public Policy
- Service Delivery
- Upper Airway
- Voice/Resonance
Members of the Collective can ask patient-specific questions in a private forum and receive same-day answers by expert clinicians. I’ve found this to be useful when I’m preparing to evaluate someone with a problem I have little experience with.
You can listen to some of the continuing education courses for free on The MedSLP Collective podcast!
SpeechPathology.com
SpeechPathology.com offers unlimited access to 500+ courses for $129/year (affiliate link). I’ve earned at least 3 ACE awards listening to courses while driving from patient to patient. I highly recommend these informative and convenient courses.
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40+ places to find continuing education for SLPs
I’ve compiled a list of 43 providers of ASHA-registered CE courses, from the AAC Institute to the University of Wisconsin Voice and Swallow Lecture Series.
For each CE provider, I’ve included:
- Cost.
- Location.
- Time-frame.
- Format.
- Additional Information.
Learning from podcasts
We now have access to well over 20 podcasts specifically related to the field of speech-language pathology.
- ASHA Voices.
- Down the Hatch – The Swallowing Podcast.
- SLPs of Color podcast.
- Speech Uncensored podcast (can earn CEUs).
- Swallow Your Pride podcast.
If you’re looking for more podcasts, check out my post describing more than 24 podcasts (see comments for more).
Read to learn
There are so many journals and books that we can learn from that I couldn’t possibly begin to list them. Some offer the opportunity to earn CEUs, and others don’t. Here are a few resources and examples.
- ASHA SIG Perspectives.
- Dysphagia (journal).
- Journals published by ASHA.
- speechBITE monthly newsletter.
- The Informed SLP.
Related Eat, Speak, & Think posts
- 40+ places to find ASHA CEUs.
- Top 10 AT and AAC research sources.
- 24 podcasts for adult medical speech-language pathologists.
- Free course to improve conversation skills in aphasia.
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