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Ain’t Misbehavin’: Nobody Taught Me About That

January 22, 2022 by Megan Berg.
SLPs face many challenges, including unexpected behaviors and how to deal with them. This course will give information to pediatric SLPs on behaviors you might encounter in your practice and tools for responding well.
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Jumpstart your Knowledge: Dysphagia Education and Training in the Digital Age

January 22, 2022 by Megan Berg.
This course explores new avenues of dysphagia education. Participants will be able to summarize insufficiencies in traditional SLP training in normal and disordered swallowing, describe current SLP practice patterns and trends related to dysphagia management, and describe proposed learning solutions for improving dysphagia education and training for students and clinicians in the digital age.
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A Call into the Wild: How Therapy Can and Should Move Outdoors

January 19, 2022 by Megan Berg.
This course will make the case for implementing traditional evidence-based language therapies within the context of nature. Reviewing his own experience developing nature-based intervention and translating nature-based pedagogy into speech-language pathology, the presenter provides recommendations for clinicians and researchers for bringing children and families we serve outdoors.
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Taking the Burden Out of Sleep in Dementia

January 19, 2022 by Megan Berg.
Therapists are informed of the impact of sleep disturbances on persons with dementia and their caregivers. Current evidence supporting non-pharmacological interventions and research supporting non-pharmacological interventions for sleep and how those may be incorporated into occupational therapy treatment planning for community-dwelling persons with dementia and their caregivers will be provided.
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Weasilience: Traumatic Brain Injury and Resilience

January 19, 2022 by Megan Berg.
This course teaches speech, occupational, and physical therapists how to define resilience, list three resilience lessons that relate to overcoming adversity, and list three strategies to increase resilience in the context of brain injury recovery. Using her 20+ years of brain injury recovery and research insights, Carole Starr shows how to move forward after a […]
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Addressing Sexuality and Intimacy with Clients 101: What to Do and How to Do It

January 19, 2022 by Megan Berg.
Sexuality and intimacy are meaningful life occupations and humans are sexual beings womb to tomb. Despite the importance of sexuality and intimacy, healthcare providers are often unprepared to address sexuality in clinical practice. Participants will build their personal comfort level discussing sex and intimacy with clients and enhance competency addressing common challenges and goals.
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Differences Between Picky Eaters and Problem Feeders

January 19, 2022 by Megan Berg.
This course will define the differences between picky eaters and problem feeders. We will review seven characteristics that can assist in differentiating between the two groups. Basic strategies will be discussed that may help parents and therapists treat picky eaters.
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Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome: Strategies and Supports in Birth-10yo

January 19, 2022 by Megan Berg.
This course will explore the presentation of NAS in newborns all the way to school age. From feeding issues that arise soon after birth, to language delays in toddlerhood, and then behavioral challenges in a structured school setting, this population is frequently seen on a speech-language pathologist’s caseload. This course provides immediately applicable ideas and […]
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