Continuing Education - American Board of Child Language and Language Disorders

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.

New Event

Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE): The Effects of Childhood Trauma on Communication

August 5 – 9 at noon EDT

Weeklong, advanced-level – This five-day virtual conference will focus on how adverse experiences (e.g., abuse, neglect, deprivation, unstable living environments, violence) can affect children’s development, their communication skills, the family system, and the communities in which they live.

Monday, Aug. 5: Angela Ciccia, PhD, CCC-SLP – “Adverse childhood experiences: Effects on brain, behavior, and clinical practice”

Tuesday, Aug. 6: Helen Grech, MEd, PhD – “The effects of trauma on communication in forced migrant minors”

Wednesday, Aug. 7: Carol Westby, PhD, CCC-SLP, BCS-CL – “Supporting children with adverse childhood experiences: Caregiver and child interventions”

Thursday, Aug. 8: Joy Osofsky, PhD, Professor of Pediatrics, Psychiatry, and Public Health – “The effects of trauma on young children: Impact on the development of communication”

Friday, Aug. 9: Megan Dunn Davison, PhD, CCC-SLP/L – “A grassroots framework to address adverse childhood experiences at the community level”

Calendar of Upcoming Events

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.