Florida Speech Therapists Continuing Education and License Renewals

July 1, 2015 - PRLog -- Florida SLP License Renewal & CE Info

By Gina Ulery

Florida-licensed Speech-Language Pathologists (SLPs) and Audiologists have an upcoming license renewal deadline of December 31, 2015.

Continuing Education (CE) Required:

30 hours of continuing education are required every 2 years to renew (50 hours if dual-licensed), of which:

2 hours on the prevention of medical errors are required each renewal.

1 hour on HIV/AIDS is required for the first renewal only.

Online CE Allowed: No limit if ASHA-approved

Note: There is a 10-hour limit on non-clinical courses.

Professional Development Resources is approved by ASHA and the Florida Board of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology to provide online CEUs for Florida SLPs. Florida SLPs may earn all 30 hours required for renewal through online courses offered on the Speech-Language Pathology page of our site. Click here to view ASHA-approved online CEU courses.

We report to CE Broker for you – so you don’t have to! All courses are reported within one week of completion.

Visuals for Autism: Beyond the Basic Symbols is a 2-hour online video CE course. It is well-established by research that many learners on the autism spectrum benefit from the use of visuals. How can we go beyond a basic use of symbols to create and implement individualized visuals that will help our students learn and communicate more comprehensively? Participants will learn about considerations and strategies to take into account in order to put more effective visuals in place for their students on the autism spectrum. Topics covered include: broadening symbol selection, adding layers and additional components to visuals in order to make them more motivating and meaningful, providing visuals for a wide variety of expressive communicative functions, and using visuals for comprehension and organization as well as expression.

Helping Your Young Client Persevere in the Face of Learning Differences is a 3-hour online video CE course. Clinicians and teachers working with students struggling at grade level are committed to raising their students’ achievement potential by creating opportunities to learn. In order to accomplish this, they need to learn new techniques that can help encourage discouraged students – particularly those who have different ways of learning – by supporting and motivating them without enabling self-defeating habits. This course will provide strategies and techniques for helping students minimize the patterns of “learned helplessness” they have adopted, appreciate and maximize their strengths, develop a growth mindset, value effort and persistence over success, view mistakes as opportunities to learn, and develop a love of learning that will help them take personal responsibility for their school work. The course video is split into 3 parts for your convenience.

Early Childhood Music Therapy and Autism Spectrum Disorders is a 6-hour test-only course. This CE test is based on the book "Early Childhood Music Therapy and Autism Spectrum Disorders: Developing Potential in Young Children and their Families" (2012, 304 pages). This text includes the work of many researchers and practitioners from music therapy and related disciplines brought together to provide a comprehensive overview of music therapy practice with young children who present with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). The authors present an overview of ASD including core characteristics, early warning signs, prevalence rates, research and theories, screening and evaluation.  The book explores treatment approaches and strategies as applied in music therapy to the treatment of ASD.  The authors present a wealth of practical applications and strategies for implementation of music therapy within multi-disciplinary teams, school environments and in family-centered practice.

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