April is a great time to reset, refocus, and invest in learning that supports both your clinical work and your long-term sustainability as an SLP. This month’s lineup brings together a wide range of topics, from autism, ADHD, and DLD to feeding, neurorehab, and school-based practice, all designed to help you feel more confident and supported in your day-to-day work.
You’ll find courses that challenge traditional perspectives, like rethinking autistic communication, understanding the deeper impacts of ADHD, and exploring neurodiversity-affirming approaches to care. There’s also a strong focus on practical application, with strategies you can use right away for supporting executive functioning, improving feeding therapy, navigating workload demands, and strengthening communication across settings.
A highlight this month is the Autism Conference on April 26, which brings together neurodiversity-affirming approaches with real-world clinical application. Conferences like this emphasize practical strategies, collaboration, and strengths-based care, helping clinicians better support communication, regulation, and meaningful participation across settings.
April also highlights the importance of collaboration and perspective, whether that’s working across disciplines in autism evaluations, partnering with medical teams in feeding, or learning directly from individuals with lived experience. Alongside that, you’ll find conversations around burnout, professional alignment, and supervision, offering space to reflect on not just how you work, but how you sustain your work over time.
Whether you’re looking to build new skills, refine your clinical approach, or reconnect with your purpose, this month’s courses are here to support you.
Carolyn Dolby, MS, CCC-SLP, Barbara Moore, EdD, CCC-SLP, BCS-SL | Live and Interactive (0.10 ASHA CEUs)
Feeling stuck in a reactive role? This episode breaks down how school-based SLPs can build greater professional autonomy, even within the realities of large caseloads and compliance demands. Walk away with practical strategies and a leadership mindset that helps you take a more active role in shaping your work and better supporting your students.
Garrett Oyama, MS, CCC-SLP, Rhiannon Luyster, PhD | Live and Interactive (0.10 ASHA CEUs)
Rethink what it means to “understand” language in autism. This episode challenges deficit-based perspectives and introduces the idea of autistic “linguatypes,” reframing communication differences as meaningful and functional. Walk away with a more grounded approach to assessment, including how to interpret language within tools like the ADOS and support each child’s unique communication style.
Michelle Dawson, MS, CCC-SLP, CLC, BCS-S, FNAP, Britt Frisk Pados, PhD, RN, NNP-BC, IBCLC, FAHA | On-Demand Release (0.10 ASHA CEUs)
Infant feeding is more complex than it seems. This episode breaks down bottle flow rates, reflux, and GI health, and how each can impact feeding success. Walk away with practical insights and tools to better support infants and collaborate with medical teams when feeding concerns arise.
Stephanie Michele Sweigart, MS, CCC-SLP | On-Demand Release (0.05 ASHA CEUs)
Burnout often builds through small, everyday habits. This episode highlights three common patterns that increase stress and shares simple mindset shifts to help you respond with more clarity and control. Walk away with practical tools, including grounding strategies and the R.A.I.N. technique, to stay present and navigate challenges with confidence.
Renee Garrett, MSEd, CCC-SLP, CBIS, Angelyn Franks, SLPD, CCC-SLP | Live and Interactive (0.10 ASHA CEUs)
Burnout isn’t always about workload. This episode explores how misalignment between your values, strengths, and work environment can drive stress just as much as volume. Walk away with practical ways to assess your alignment and make more intentional decisions about your role and career.
Corinne Zmoos, MS, CCC-SLP. Liz Watson, MS, CCC-SLP | Live and Interactive (0.10 ASHA CEUs)
Hyperlexia isn’t something to work around, it can be something to build from. This episode reframes a child’s interest in letters, numbers, and symbols as a meaningful entry point for language development. Walk away with practical ways to turn these “human codes” into opportunities for connection, play, and communication.
Carolyn Dolby, MS, CCC-SLP, Janine Benner, MA, CCC-SLP, BCS-CL, ASDCS, Abbie Keibler, MA, CCC-SLP | Live and Interactive (0.10 ASHA CEUs)
Overwhelmed by your caseload? This episode breaks down why student counts alone miss the full scope of school-based work and how a workload approach better reflects reality. Walk away with practical strategies and talking points to support more flexible, sustainable service delivery.
Char Boshart, MA, CCC-SLP, Jennifer Gray, MS, CCC-SLP | Live and Interactive (0.10 ASHA CEUs)
Speech practice plays a key role in language development for individuals with Down syndrome. This episode explores how repetition supports grammar, clarity, and overall communication while building independence and confidence. Walk away with practical ways to incorporate intentional speech practice into your therapy.
Michelle Dawson, MS, CCC-SLP, CLC, BCS-S, FNAP, Lauren Thompson, M.Ed., CCC-SLP, CLC | On-Demand Release (0.10 ASHA CEUs)
Trauma can shape every part of the feeding experience. This episode focuses on trauma-sensitive PFD evaluations and how to support both the child and caregiver during assessment and intervention. Walk away with practical strategies to create safer, more supportive feeding therapy.
Damaris Sanchez Rivera, MS, CCC-SLP, Nydia Bou, EdD, MS, CCC-SLP | Live and Interactive (0.10 ASHA CEUs)
Este podcast en español explora el rol de los SLP más allá de la terapia, con un enfoque en la mentoría, el liderazgo y la preparación de la próxima generación de profesionales. Llévate una perspectiva más amplia sobre cómo la colaboración y la enseñanza pueden fortalecer la profesión y ampliar tu impacto.
This Spanish-language podcast explores the role of SLPs beyond the therapy room, with a focus on mentorship, leadership, and preparing the next generation of clinicians. Walk away with a broader perspective on how collaboration and teaching can strengthen the profession and expand your impact.
Letizia S. Hendrickson, MS CCC-SLP, ADHD-RSP | Live and Interactive (0.15 ASHA CEUs)
ADHD impacts more than attention. This course explores how it shapes communication, language, and executive functioning across the lifespan. Walk away with practical, strength-based strategies to support individuals with ADHD in school, home, and workplace settings.
Carolyn Dolby, MS, CCC-SLP, Wendy Morgan, MS, CCC-SLP, Diane Ogiela, PhD, CCC-SLP | Live and Interactive (0.10 ASHA CEUs)
DLD is more common than many realize, yet often misunderstood in schools. This episode breaks down what it is, why it matters, and how it impacts language, literacy, and academic success. Walk away with practical ways to identify DLD and advocate for the right supports in school settings.
Renee Garrett, MSEd, CCC-SLP, CBIS, Samantha Elandary, MA, CCC-SLP | On-Demand Release (0.10 ASHA CEUs)
This episode explores how neurological changes impact communication, sensory processing, and engagement. Walk away with a deeper understanding of these often-overlooked challenges and how to better support connection and participation.
Michelle Dawson, MS, CCC-SLP, CLC, BCS-S, FNAP, Leena Sayed, BS | On-Demand Release (0.10 ASHA CEUs)
GI challenges can play a major role in feeding for autistic individuals. This episode explores how gastrointestinal health connects to feeding, behavior, and participation at mealtimes. Walk away with practical insight to better identify GI-related concerns and support the whole child in feeding therapy.
Margo Kinzer Courter, MA, CCC-SLP, BCS-CL | Live and Interactive (0.30 ASHA CEUs)
The transition from early intervention to preschool is more connected than it seems. This course reframes Part C to Part B as a continuum, showing how early skills build toward school success. Walk away with practical ways to support children and guide families through this transition with intention.
Renee Garrett, MSEd, CCC-SLP, CBIS, Jesse Aron, Ken Bernson, Melissa Capo, MS, CCC-SLP | Live and Interactive (0.10 ASHA CEUs)
Recovery doesn’t always happen quietly. This episode features brain injury survivors sharing how storytelling, connection, and advocacy shape life after injury. Walk away with a deeper appreciation for survivor perspectives and how they can inform more meaningful, collaborative care.
Corinne Zmoos, MS, CCC-SLP, Rachel Terrell, MS., CCC-SLP, CBIS | Live and Interactive (0.10 ASHA CEUs)
This episode explores how different GLP play styles can reveal underlying executive functioning needs, including regulation, flexibility, and organization. You’ll walk away with practical ways to use parallel, pretend, and narrative play to support both executive functioning and language development across settings.
Margo Kinzer Courter, MA, CCC-SLP, BCS-CL | Live and Interactive (0.10 ASHA CEUs)
This case study highlights how foundational vocabulary challenges can impact multiple areas of language development, including syntax, morphology, and classroom participation. You’ll walk away with targeted strategies to support early vocabulary growth and practical ways to collaborate with educators to improve carryover in the classroom.
Garrett Oyama, MS, CCC-SLP, Martin Zettersten, PhD | Live and Interactive (0.10 ASHA CEUs)
This episode explores how infants actively learn language through curiosity, attention, and everyday experiences. You’ll gain a research-informed perspective on early word learning and how attention shapes vocabulary development, along with insight into how large-scale collaborative research is advancing what we know about early language.
Michelle Dawson, MS, CCC-SLP, CLC, BCS-S, FNAP, Alice L. Williams, BA., SLPA | On-Demand Release (0.10 ASHA CEUs)
This course reframes supervision as more than a requirement, highlighting how it can build clinician confidence and strengthen outcomes. You’ll gain practical insight into navigating supervision across settings, along with mindset shifts to approach mentorship with greater clarity, intention, and sustainability.
Live and Interactive (0.60 ASHA CEUs)
This conference offers a neurodiversity-affirming approach to autism, focusing on executive function, communication, and strengths-based support across settings. You’ll gain practical strategies and frameworks to support regulation, connection, and meaningful participation, along with guidance for making thoughtful, individualized clinical decisions.
Damaris Sanchez Rivera, MS, CCC-SLP, Kennia A. Reyes Sanabria, MS, SLP, Linna D. Reyes Sanabria, MS, SLP | Live and Interactive (0.10 ASHA CEUs)
Este episodio explora la importancia de la evaluación transdisciplinaria en el autismo y cómo la colaboración entre disciplinas permite una comprensión más completa del paciente. Te llevarás estrategias prácticas para fomentar el trabajo en equipo y fortalecer tanto el diagnóstico como la intervención en tu práctica diaria.
This episode explores the importance of transdisciplinary autism evaluations and how collaboration across disciplines leads to a more complete understanding of the patient. You’ll walk away with practical strategies to strengthen teamwork and improve both diagnosis and intervention in your daily practice.
Christina Bradburn, PhD, CCC-SLP | Live and Interactive (0.20 ASHA CEUs)
This course breaks down the difference between caseload and workload and why that distinction matters for both clinicians and students. You’ll gain practical strategies to better define your workload, explore more flexible service delivery models, and advocate for changes that support more effective and sustainable school-based practice.
If you don’t see what you need in our April lineup, you can always explore all upcoming courses or search our growing library of more than 1,400 on-demand courses—the largest online library of on-demand continuing education for SLPs and related professionals. Speech Therapy PD adds new courses every month, so you’ll always find fresh content to fit your interests, licensure, certifications, and schedule.
Please note: Course schedules, presenters, and details are subject to change due to unforeseen circumstances such as presenter illness or other scheduling conflicts. We will notify registered participants as soon as possible of any changes. For the most up-to-date information, please check our website.
