Active Listening: New ASHA CEU Course

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Active Listening is a new 3-hour online ASHA CEU course for Speech-Language Pathologists (SLPs):

Active Listening

Active Listening: Techniques that Work for Children and Parents is a 3-hour online continuing education (CE/CEU) course that offers a valuable compilation of practical and ready-to-use strategies and techniques for achieving more effective communication through active listening. One of the fundamental tools of clinicians who work effectively with children and adolescents is the art of listening. Without this set of skills, clinicians are likely to miss essential pieces of information their clients are trying to communicate to them, whether with words or with behavior. When the word “active” is added to “listening” it alters and amplifies the communication process to include a dynamic feedback loop in which the speaker and the listener validate that each party has been accurately heard.

Appropriate use of listening skills by a clinician can increase self-esteem in young clients and motivate them to learn. Using active listening skills, clinicians become more confident and manage their therapy and counseling sessions with a broader and mutually respectful dialogue. This course will teach clinicians how to employ innovative and practical communication and conversational skills in their individual and group therapy sessions with clients and their families, as well as in their working relationships with other professionals. These techniques can be applied to a wide variety of clinical, classroom and home situations, and case examples are included. Also included are sections on positive thinking and resilience, problem-solving skills, and the communication of emotion. Course #30-90 | 2017 | 70 pages | 20 posttest questions

This online course provides instant access to the course materials (PDF download) and CE test. After enrolling, click on My Account and scroll down to My Active Courses. From here you’ll see links to download/print the course materials and take the CE test (you can print the test to mark your answers on it while reading the course document).

Successful completion of the online CE test (80% required to pass, 3 chances to take) and course evaluation are required to earn a certificate of completion.

This course is offered by Professional Development Resources, 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.

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Building Resilience

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We are approved to offer continuing education by the American Psychological Association (APA); the National Board of Certified Counselors (NBCC); the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB); the American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA); the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA); the Commission on Dietetic Registration (CDR); the Alabama State Board of Occupational Therapy; the Florida Boards of Social Work, Mental Health Counseling and Marriage and Family Therapy, Psychology & School Psychology, Dietetics & Nutrition, Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology, and Occupational Therapy Practice; the Ohio Counselor, Social Worker & MFT Board and Board of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology; the South Carolina Board of Professional Counselors & MFTs; the Texas Board of Examiners of Marriage & Family Therapists and State Board of Social Worker Examiners; and are CE Broker compliant (all courses are reported within one week of completion).

Contact Hour or CEU?

By Gina Ulery @pdresources

Contact Hour or CEU?

Contact Hour or CEU?The definitions of contact hour and continuing education unit, or CEU – and the difference between the two – are often misunderstood.

Some professions (such as Occupational Therapy and Speech-Language Pathology) prefer the term CEU. Most mental health professions (Psychology, Social Work, Marriage & Family Therapy, etc.), however, use CE contact hour or credit hour.

Although the terms seem interchangeable, they have different meanings. One CE contact hour is equal to 50-60 minutes of a learning activity, depending on jurisdictional requirements. One CEU is equal to 10 contact hours – meaning that one contact hour is equal to .1 (1/10 or one tenth) of a CEU.

So if your particular licensing board requires that you complete 3 CEUs per renewal cycle, that can be interpreted as 30 contact hours required.

It would be much simpler if all accrediting bodies and licensing boards could agree upon one standard term, but what fun would that be? 🙂

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.

We are approved to offer continuing education by the American Psychological Association (APA); the National Board of Certified Counselors (NBCC); the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB); the American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA); the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA); the Commission on Dietetic Registration (CDR); the Alabama State Board of Occupational Therapy; the Florida Boards of Social Work, Mental Health Counseling and Marriage and Family Therapy, Psychology & School Psychology, Dietetics & Nutrition, Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology, and Occupational Therapy Practice; the Ohio Counselor, Social Worker & MFT Board and Board of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology; the South Carolina Board of Professional Counselors & MFTs; the Texas Board of Examiners of Marriage & Family Therapists and State Board of Social Worker Examiners; and are CE Broker compliant (all courses are reported within one week of completion).

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Successful completion of the online CE test (80% required to pass, 3 chances to take) and course evaluation are required to earn a certificate of completion. Click here to learn more.

Professional Development Resources is approved to offer continuing education by the American Psychological Association (APA); the National Board of Certified Counselors (NBCC); the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB); the American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA); the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA); the Commission on Dietetic Registration (CDR); the CaliforniaBoard of Behavioral Sciences; the Florida Boards of Social Work, Mental Health Counseling and Marriage and Family Therapy, Psychology & School Psychology, Dietetics & Nutrition, Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology, and Occupational Therapy Practice; the Ohio Counselor, Social Worker & MFT Board; the South Carolina Board of Professional Counselors & MFTs; and by the Texas Board of Examiners of Marriage & Family Therapists and State Board of Social Worker Examiners.

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Professional Development Resources is approved to offer continuing education by the American Psychological Association (APA); the National Board of Certified Counselors (NBCC); the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB); the American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA); the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA); the Commission on Dietetic Registration (CDR); the CaliforniaBoard of Behavioral Sciences; the Florida Boards of Social Work, Mental Health Counseling and Marriage and Family Therapy, Psychology & School Psychology, Dietetics & Nutrition, Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology, and Occupational Therapy Practice; the Ohio Counselor, Social Worker & MFT Board; the South Carolina Board of Professional Counselors & MFTs; and by the Texas Board of Examiners of Marriage & Family Therapists and State Board of Social Worker Examiners.

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Q: What is CE Broker and why was it developed?
A: CE Broker is the name of an electronic tracking system developed for the Florida Department of Health to help track and facilitate audits of continuing education (CE) credits earned by Florida’s health care practitioners. The Department of Health was mandated by law to implement an electronic tracking system.

Q: How does CE Broker affect my license renewal?
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Q: If I, as a licensee, do not have the necessary CE credits reported in CE Broker to meet the CE requirements, will I be disciplined?
A: If an audit (electronic) indicates you failed to meet your CE requirements, you will be referred for possible action against your license. This process includes an opportunity for you to submit, manually or electronically, proof of your compliance with the CE requirements and thus avoid further action against your license. Only if you cannot prove compliance with your CE requirements will you be subject to further action against your license. Discipline will be conducted according to the licensure rules which govern your profession.

Q: Will my license be renewed if at time of renewal any or all of my required CE course credits have not been reported to CE Broker?
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Q: What advantages would I, as a licensee, gain by subscribing to CE Broker and paying the subscription fee?
A: A subscription with CE Broker gives you 24/7 online access to view your CE transcript and compliance determination, view your chronological course history, search for courses that fulfill the CE requirements for your profession including times and locations, view how a course will count towards meeting your CE requirements, provide notices and reminders for your CE requirements, and provide you access to frequently asked questions about your specific CE requirements. Please visit the CE Broker website at www.cebroker.com for more information on the advantages of subscribing.

Q: Do you (PDResources) report my course completions to CE Broker?
A: Yes, as long as we know you are licensed in Florida (must be listed in your account profile). We are required to report your course completions within 30 days – but do so much more frequently. Please email us at [email protected] with specific questions. Please note: We DO NOT report course completions to CE Broker for SLPs/Audiologists. ASHA is responsible for reporting your course completions to CE Broker. If you do not report your hours to ASHA, you will need to self-submit to CE Broker.

Adolescent Literacy – Change in Credit Hours

We recently released a new continuing education course on Adolescent Literacy with a credit value of 1-hour. Upon further examination of the course we realized the word count was closer to a 2-hour credit course. So we added four more test questions and upgraded the credit (and the cost, of course :)).

Adolescent LiteracyThis is a web-based course requiring an internet connection to access the required online reading materials. Course instructions provide a direct link to the free, public-access online document on which the CE test is based. This course presents evidence-based advice for improving adolescent reading and writing skills in content-area classes. Topics covered include decoding, morphology, fluency, vocabulary, text comprehension, reading assessment, writing, motivation, and the needs of diverse learners. Chapters in this document present information on the practices of good readers, challenges faced by adolescent readers, instruction techniques to improve skills, and areas for future research. This class is relevant to educators, school psychologists, counselors, speech-language pathologists, and instructional coaches. Course #20-54 | 2010 | 14 posttest questions | 4 page course download includes links to online documents and posttest questions

Kentucky SLP License Renewal Requirements

Some Kentucky Speech-Language Pathologists & Audiologists have an upcoming license renewal deadline. Effective January 1, 2009, the renewal deadline for Kentucky-licensed SLPs/As changed from an annual renewal to a biennial renewal.

The license renewal deadline is January 31st, every 2 years. If the license number is odd, the renewal deadline is January 31, 2011. If the license number is even, the renewal deadline is January 31, 2012.

  • 30 hours of continuing education (CE) are required every 2 years for renewal (50 if dual-licensed).
  • There is no limit on hours earned from online or home study coursework that is ASHA-approved – but online coursework shall not exceed 10 hours per day.
  • Mamimum of 4 hours allowed from related courses.

Please visit The Kentucky Board of Speech-Language Pathology & Audiology website for more information, and to renew.

Professional Development Resources is an ASHA-approved provider of online and mail order home study continuing education for SLPs and Audiologists.