February may be the shortest month of the year, but it is packed with big conversations, meaningful learning, and opportunities to connect. This month’s lineup focuses on growth, from supporting ourselves as clinicians to strengthening our practice and showing up more intentionally for the communities we serve.
In honor of Black History Month, we are excited to partner with Black SLP Magic to offer a free conference celebrating leadership, advocacy, and excellence within the SLP community. While the conference is completely free to attend, we encourage participants to consider donating to Black SLP Magic to support their ongoing work and impact. More details on this conference can be found here!
Whether you are here to earn CEUs, recharge your motivation, or engage in conversations that move the field forward, February’s offerings are designed to meet you where you are and inspire what comes next.
Stephanie Michele Sweigart, MS, CCC-SLP | On-Demand Release (0.05 ASHA CEUs)
IEP meetings are essential, but they can be emotionally draining when tensions run high. This episode shares a simple three-phase framework (Before, During, After) along with practical strategies and scripts to help you stay grounded, focused, and collaborative throughout the meeting. You’ll leave with tools to run clearer, calmer IEP meetings while protecting your energy and confidence.
Corinne Zmoos, MS, CCC-SLP and Elizabeth (Biz) Freund, CCC-SLP | Live and Interactive (0.10 ASHA CEUs)
This episode explores how exploratory process art can support meaningful communication and flexible play for Gestalt language processors (GLPs). You’ll learn how shifting away from outcome-focused crafts toward child-directed, choice-driven art experiences can foster expression, autonomy, and deeper engagement. It offers a fresh perspective on following the child’s lead and recognizing communication opportunities in creative, sometimes messy moments.
Carolyn Dolby, MS, CCC-SLP and Emily Sweet, MS, CCC-SLP | Live and Interactive (0.10 ASHA CEUs)
This episode breaks down how to evaluate multilingual children with greater accuracy and confidence using a converging evidence approach. It walks through practical tools like ethnographic interviewing, language sampling, dynamic assessment, and nonword repetition tasks to build a more complete and ethical evaluation process. You’ll leave with clear strategies to distinguish language difference from language disorder, even when a bilingual clinician is not available.
Garrett Oyama, MS, CCC-SLP and Irena Lovčević, PhD | Live and Interactive (0.10 ASHA CEUs)
Early language development is deeply connected to movement, attention, social interaction, and everyday environments. This conversation explores how infants’ vocalizations, gestures, and motor actions evolve together over time, and how caregiving practices and environmental factors shape early communication. You’ll gain a more integrated view of language development as an embodied, social process with clear implications for assessment and early intervention.
Michelle Dawson, MS, CCC-SLP, CLC, BCS-S, AC Goldberg, PhD, CCC-SLP, Jordyn R. Montique, MS, CCC-SLP | Live and Interactive (0.10 ASHA CEUs)
This course meets ASHA’s DEI professional development requirement and moves the conversation from awareness to action. The discussion focuses on addressing systemic barriers impacting BIPOC professionals and offers practical, evidence-based strategies for advancing equity, inclusion, and representation within speech-language pathology. You’ll walk away with concrete tools for advocacy, allyship, and meaningful action to help create more supportive and inclusive professional environments.
Emma Justice, MS, CCC- SLP, CLC, NTMTC, Melissa Davis, MS, CCC-SLP, Kathryn C. R. Knudsen, PT, MPT, CNT, PCS, DCS, CLE, Courtney Richards, M.S., CCC-SLP, CLC, Alison DeSomma, OT, CLC, CIMI, Tracy Camille Johnson, MS, CCC-SLP, CLC, MSPA-CPSP | Live and Interactive (0.50 ASHA CEUs)
Supporting lactation and breastfeeding for medically fragile infants requires coordinated, infant-driven, and developmentally appropriate care across NICU and Early Intervention settings. This seminar reviews key aspects of neonatal feeding physiology and shares practical strategies for supporting safe, cue-based breastfeeding while honoring family priorities. Clinicians will gain insight into interdisciplinary collaboration and trauma-informed, culturally responsive approaches to provide more equitable, family-centered lactation support.
Stephanie Michele Sweigart, MS, CCC-SLP | On-Demand Release (0.05 ASHA CEUs)
School-based SLPs often navigate high-stakes conversations with teachers and families where emotions run high and expectations feel urgent. This discussion offers realistic strategies rooted in nonviolent communication to reduce defensiveness, set clear boundaries, and keep conversations focused on student-first decisions. You’ll gain concrete language, mindset shifts, and tools to approach challenging situations with greater clarity, confidence, and emotional steadiness.
Hannah Patten, MSP, CCC-SLP | Live and Interactive (0.15 ASHA CEUs)
Pediatric acquired brain injury can result in complex feeding, swallowing, and cognitive communication challenges that evolve across development. This course reviews evidence-based evaluation and treatment approaches for dysphagia, feeding difficulties, and cognitive communication impairment, using current research and real-world case examples. Clinicians will gain practical guidance to support safety, clinical reasoning, and functional outcomes when working with medically complex pediatric populations.
Carolyn Dolby, MS, CCC-SLP and Alisha B. Gandhi, MA, MS, CCC-SLP/TSSLD-BE | Live and Interactive (0.10 ASHA CEUs)
Supporting vocabulary development for multilingual learners requires more than teaching isolated words. This conversation explores how pedagogical translanguaging can strengthen evidence-based vocabulary instruction by leveraging a student’s full linguistic repertoire rather than separating languages. You’ll gain practical, collaborative strategies to support deeper word learning, academic success, and stronger advocacy for multilingual learners in school settings.
Char Boshart, MA, CCC-SLP and Carolyn Dolby, MS, CCC-SLP | Live and Interactive (0.10 ASHA CEUs)
Building strong, trust-based partnerships between families and school teams is essential for supporting students effectively across settings. This conversation shares practical, relationship-centered strategies for engaging families, navigating challenges, and aligning school, medical, and home-based supports. You’ll leave with actionable ideas to strengthen communication, reduce friction, and improve feeding and swallowing outcomes through collaboration.
Jessie Mewshaw, MS, CCC-SLP | Live and Interactive (0.15 ASHA CEUs)
Pathological Demand Avoidance (PDA) is a complex profile that can significantly impact communication, participation, and emotional regulation. This course explores what is currently known about PDA, how it differs from typical demand avoidance, and the role SLPs play in providing neuro-affirming, communication-centered support. You’ll gain practical strategies, accommodations, and goal examples to reduce distress, support autonomy, and create individualized interventions across home, school, and community settings.
Stephanie Michele Sweigart, MS, CCC-SLP | On-Demand Release (0.05 ASHA CEUs)
Caseload and workload overwhelm are common realities for school-based SLPs and can take a real toll on both clinicians and students. This conversation explores what burnout actually looks like in day-to-day practice and how conflict styles and nonviolent communication can support clearer, more professional advocacy. You’ll gain practical, student-centered strategies to set boundaries, communicate needs, and protect your well-being without burning out.
Margo Kinzer Courter, MA, CCC-SLP, BCS-CL | Live and Interactive (0.10 ASHA CEUs)
Morphological awareness difficulties can have wide-reaching effects on language and literacy, especially in the early elementary years. This case study follows a second grader whose challenges with inflectional morphemes impact phonological awareness, morphosyntax, semantics, and literacy skills across spoken and written language. You’ll gain practical, therapy-ready strategies and a clearer framework for assessment, intervention planning, and classroom collaboration when morphology is a core area of need.
Corinne Zmoos, MS, CCC-SLP and Salena Jacob, DPT | Live and Interactive (0.10 ASHA CEUs)
Supporting gestalt language processors (GLPs) extends beyond speech therapy and benefits from strong interdisciplinary collaboration. This conversation explores how GLP-informed strategies like following special interests, using musical language, rhythm, and familiar phrases can support regulation, engagement, and motor learning in physical therapy settings. You’ll gain insight into how coordinated approaches across disciplines can better support connection and development for GLP children.
Carolyn Dolby, MS, CCC-SLP and Jacqueline Brown, EdD, CCC-SLP | Live and Interactive (0.10 ASHA CEUs)
Understanding how special education law intersects with supervision and evaluation is essential for school-based SLPs. This conversation explores how legal and administrative frameworks can be leveraged beyond compliance to support effective service delivery, professional growth, and stronger student outcomes. You will gain practical strategies to advocate for resources, protected time, and collaborative partnerships that support long-term success in school settings.
Garrett Oyama, MS, CCC-SLP and Sam Wass, PhD | Live and Interactive (0.10 ASHA CEUs)
Attention, regulation, and language development are deeply interconnected in infancy and early childhood. This conversation explores how caregiver interaction, co-regulation, and shared attention shape a child’s moment-to-moment attentional capacity and support early language growth. You’ll gain practical insight into creating more attuned, responsive intervention strategies that align with how developing brains actually function in natural settings.
Michelle Dawson, MS, CCC-SLP, CLC, BCS-S and Tracy Camille Johnson, MS, CCC-SLP, CLC, MSPA-CPSP | On Demand (0.10 ASHA CEUs)
A new season of First Bite opens with a thoughtful conversation centered on allyship, advocacy, and equity in pediatric feeding. The discussion examines barriers faced by BIPOC clinicians, the role of Adverse Childhood Experiences in service delivery, and how to identify community-based resources that genuinely support caregivers. You will leave with a strengthened advocacy lens and renewed clarity on how to show up more intentionally in feeding practice.
Maurice Goodwin, MS, CCC-SLP; Jackie Rodríguez, MS, CCC-SLP; Amanda Pericles, MS, CCC-SLP, CBS; Tricia Ross, SLPD, CCC-SLP, TSSLD, M.S.Ed., SBL | Live and Interactive (0.40 ASHA CEUs)
This conference meets ASHA’s DEI professional development requirement and centers culturally responsive, equity-driven practices in speech-language pathology. Sessions explore how culture, identity, and systemic factors influence assessment and intervention across the lifespan, with topics spanning language, voice, feeding, and disability justice. Clinicians will leave with practical, trauma-informed strategies to support more equitable, family-centered care across practice settings.
If you don’t see what you need in our February 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.
