Welcome to the Advanced Learning Center!
How It Works
The ABCLLD Advanced Learning Center is designed to provide you with advanced professional development opportunities. You can choose and take courses designed to build your skills, further your expertise, and meet your intermediate or advanced continuing education needs at your leisure 24/7. The ABCLLD has partnered with SpeechPathology.com to offer these Advanced Learning Center courses.
Continuing education opportunities include both live and recorded webinars. All courses presented in partnership with ABCLLD are intermediate or advanced and are offered for ASHA CEUs. The ABCLLD provides courses in the Advanced Learning Center as a convenience, but these courses are NOT required for board certification or for maintaining specialty certification.
CEU Membership
Courses are offered for CEUs through the SpeechPathology.com membership program that provides unlimited CEU access for $99/year. For more information, visit SpeechPathology.com.
To access a bonus month, a 13-month membership, enter the promo code ABCLLD upon sign up. You do not need to be a Child Language Specialist to participate or use this code.
Language Therapy via Telepractice: Imagine the Possibilities
Tuesday, July 21, 2020 at 3 p.m. EDT
Presenter: Melissa Jakubowitz, MA, CCC-SLP, BCS-CL
Level: Intermediate
Live webinar, 1-hour
Kay Butler Language Symposium: Personal Narratives Across Diverse Cultures
Monday – Friday, August 3 – 7, 2020 at noon EDT
Level: Advanced
Live webinars
Monday: Carol Westby, PhD, CCC-SLP, BCS-CL, will present Telling Our Stories: Developing Cultural Identity
Carol Westby
Tuesday: Rena Lyons, PhD, will present Using Personal Narratives to Explore Well-being and Identity Construction in Children with Language Disorders
Rena Lyons
Marleen Westerveld
Tiffany Hutchins
Ashley Brien
Allyssa McCabe
Suggested SpeechPathology.com Courses
for Maintaining Specialty Certification
Some of these courses have been produced in partnership with the ABCLLD. Click each course title for more information and to register for the course. If you are not a member of SpeechPathology.com, you will be directed to the sign-up page.
2020
Principles Driving Effective Narrative-Based Language Intervention
Presenter: Doug Petersen, PhD, CCC-SLP
Level: Advanced, 1-hour
Evidence-Based Approaches for Treating the Grammatical Weaknesses of Children
Presenter: Lizbeth Finestack, PhD, CCC-SLP
Level: Advanced, 1-hour
Analysis of Spelling Errors: Developmental Patterns and the Need for Continued Instruction
Presenter: Ruth Huntley-Bahr, PhD, CCC-SLP, BCS-CL
Level: Advanced, 1-hour
2019
Do the Hard Things First: Treatment of Morphology
Presenter: Amanda Owen Van Horne, PhD, CCC-SLP
Level: Advanced, 1-hour
Caregiver and Child Interventions to Support Children with Adverse Childhood Experiences
Presenter: Carol Westby, PhD, CCC-SLP, BCS-CL
Level: Advanced, 1-hour
Language Literacy Learning for Diverse Students
Presenters: Carol Westby, PhD, CCC-SLP, BCS-CL; and Elizabeth Biersgreen, MS, CCC-SLP
Level: Advanced, 1 hour
Hide and Seek: Recognizing Girls on the Autism Spectrum
Presenter: Glenis Benson, PhD, CCC-SLP
Level: Advanced, 1 hour
Adverse Childhood Experiences: Effects on brain, behavior and clinical practice
Presenter: Angela Hein Ciccia, PhD, CCC-SLP
Level: Advanced, 1 hour
The Effects of Trauma on Communication in Forced Migrant Minors
Presenter: Helen Grech, PhD
Level: Advanced, 1 hour
The Effects of Stress and Trauma on Language Development
Presenter: Joy D. Osofsky, PhD
Level: Advanced, 1 hour
A Grassroots Framework to Address Adverse Childhood Experiences at the Community Level
Presenter: Megan Dunn Davison, PhD, CCC-SLP
Level: Advanced, 1 hour
2018
Self-Determination and Transition to Adulthood: Promoting Autonomy and Student Involvement
Presenter: Michael Wehmeyer, PhD
Level: Advanced, 1 hour
Phonological Assessment and Intervention of Bilingual Children with Highly Unintelligible Speech
Presenter: Raul Prezas, PhD, CCC-SLP
Level: Intermediate, 1-hour
Evidence-Based Parent Training Strategies for Young Children with ASD
Presenter: Patti Prelock, PhD, CCC-SLP, BCS-CL
Level: Advanced, 1 hour
Improving Expository Language through Intervention on Note-Taking and Verbal Rehearsal: A Researcher-Clinical Collaboration
Presenters: Teresa Ukrainetz, PhD, S-LP(C); Amy Peterson, MS, CCC-SLP; and RJ Risueno
Level: Advanced, 1.5 hours
Assessing Personal Constructs of Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Person-Centered Measure of Social Cognition
Presenters: Trisha Self, PhD, CCC-SLP, BCS-CL; and Sean Hess, PhD, CCC-SLP
Level: Advanced, 1 hour
Narrative Interventions for Learners with ASD
Presenter: Christina Carnahan, EdD; and Pamela Williamson, PhD
Level: Advanced, 1 hour
Building Skills in Inferring and Summarizing for Older Students with Social Communication Disorders
Presenter: Carol Westby, PhD, CCC-SLP
Level: Advanced, 1 hour
Camp Campus: A Guide to Facilitating Student Success in Higher Education
Presenter: Kay Hagedorn, MS, CCC-SLP
Level: Advanced, 1 hour
Evaluating Children’s Phonological Systems
Presenter: Barbara Hodson, PhD
Level: Intermediate, 1.5 hours
Improving Children’s Phonological Systems
Presenter: Barbara Hodson, PhD
Level: Intermediate, 1.5 hours
Evaluating and Enhancing Phonological Skills in Special Populations
Presenter: Lesley Magnus, PhD, CCC-SLP
Level: Intermediate, 1 hour
2017
Bridge of Vocabulary: Top Seven Strategies
Presenter: Judy Montgomery, PhD, CCC-SLP, BCS-CL
Level: Intermediate, 1-hour
Recent Intervention Research with Young Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders
Presenter: Patti Prelock, PhD, CCC-SLP, BCS-CL
Level: Intermediate, 1-hour
2016
Clinician Effectiveness: Attributes That Impact Treatment Outcomes
Presenter: Bob Buckendorf, PhD, CCC-SLP
Level: Intermediate
2015
Naturalistic Developmental Interventions in Autism
Presenter: Bob Buckendorf, PhD, CCC-SLP
Level: Intermediate