Georgia Speech Language Pathologists Continuing Education

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Georgia-licensed speech language pathologists have a license renewal every two years with a March 31st deadline, odd years.

Twenty (20) hours of continuing education are required to renew a license (40 if dual licensed). There are no limits for online continuing education courses, and there must be a post-test. Pre-approval is not required, and courses must meet board requirements and have a certificate.

===>Online Continuing Education Courses for SLPs

Georgia Board of SLP/A
CE Required: 20 hours every 2 years (40 if dual licensed)
Online CE Allowed: No limit (must have post-test)
License Expiration: 3/31, odd years
National Accreditation Accepted: Pre-approval not required
Notes: Must meet board requirements and have certificate
Date of Info: 12/14/2016

Georgia SLPs can earn all 20 hours required for renewal through online courses offered on the speech-language pathology page @PDResources.org.

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Speech Language Pathologists Online Continuing Education Courses

 

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Improving Social Skills in Children & Adolescents is a 4-hour online continuing education (CE/CEU) course that discusses the social skills children and adolescents will need to develop to be successful in school and beyond. It will demonstrate the challenges and difficulties that arise from a deficit of these crucial skills, as well as the benefits and advantages that can come about with well-developed social skills.

This course will also provide practical tools that teachers and therapists can employ to guide children to overcome their difficulties in the social realm and gain social competence. While there are hundreds of important social skills for students to learn, we can organize them into skill areas to make it easier to identify and determine appropriate interventions. This course is divided into 10 chapters, each detailing various aspects of social skills that children, teens, and adults must master to have normative, healthy relationships with the people they encounter every day. This course provides tools and suggestions that, with practice and support, can assist them in managing their social skills deficits to function in society and nurture relationships with the peers and adults in their lives.

 

What is aging? Can we live long and live well—and are they the same thing? Is aging in our genes? How does our metabolism relate to aging? Can your immune system still defend you as you age? Since the National Institute on Aging was established in 1974, scientists asking just such questions have learned a great deal about the processes associated with the biology of aging. Technology today supports research that years ago would have seemed possible only in a science fiction novel. This course introduces some key areas of research into the biology of aging. Each area is a part of a larger field of scientific inquiry. You can look at each topic individually, or you can step back to see how they fit together, interwoven to help us better understand aging processes. Research on aging is dynamic, constantly evolving based on new discoveries, and so this course also looks ahead to the future, as today’s research provides the strongest hints of things to come.

 

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Professional Development Resources is a nonprofit educational corporation 501(c)(3) organized in 1992. Our purpose is to provide high quality online continuing education (CE) courses on topics relevant to members of the healthcare professions we serve. We strive to keep our carbon footprint small by being completely paperless, allowing telecommuting, recycling, using energy-efficient lights and powering off electronics when not in use. We provide online CE courses to allow our colleagues to earn credits from the comfort of their own home or office so we can all be as green as possible (no paper, no shipping or handling, no travel expenses, etc.). Sustainability isn’t part of our work – it’s a guiding influence for all of our work.

 

Georgia Speech Language Pathologists Continuing Education and License Renewals

georgia speech language pathologistsGeorgia Speech Language Pathologists have a biennial license renewal with a March 31st deadline, odd years. Twenty (20) hours of continuing education are required to renew a license. If dual-licensed, forty (40) hours of continuing education are required. All required hours are allowed from home study, and a post test is required. Pre-approval is not required, and continuing education must meet board requirements and provide a certificate.

The main goal of continuing education is to assure the highest possible standards for the speech language pathologists profession. All licensees are required to participate in continuing education as a requirement of licensure.

Continuing Education Requirements

Georgia-licensed speech language pathologists are required as a condition of licensure to complete a minimum of twenty (20) continuing education hours every two years with a March 31st deadline, odd years. If dual licensed, forty (40) hours is required. All hours can be earned through home study.