September 2026: 26 New Speech Therapy Courses
September brings 26 new courses to Speech Therapy PD, including 20 live and interactive courses and a total of 2.75 ASHA CEUs. This month, learn about gestalt language processing and echolalia, responsive feeding therapy, dynamic assessment, aphasia and apraxia of speech, AI for speech therapy and AI for SLPs, and much more.
September also brings opportunities to connect your learning with important areas of awareness across the profession. During NICU Awareness Month, strengthen your knowledge of infant feeding and swallowing through breast and bottle feeding case studies. And during National Rehabilitation Awareness Week, find courses addressing aphasia and apraxia of speech, communication access in healthcare, pill dysphagia, and other topics relevant to rehabilitation practice.
Full Course Lineup:
September 1
Circles of Communication with GLPs
Corinne Zmoos, MS, CCC-SLP, with Erin Forward, MSP, CCC-SLP, CLC, Expert DIR/Floortime® Provider, TBRI® Trained Practitioner
Live and Interactive Podcast • 0.10 ASHA CEUs
Learn how the DIR Floortime® approach can support gestalt language processors through functional emotional developmental capacities, circles of communication, and relationship-based interactions that foster authentic communication and language growth.
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September 2
Social-Emotional Needs of Students with Communication Disorders
Carolyn Dolby, MS, CCC-SLP, with Naomi Rodgers, PhD, CCC-SLP, Philip Combiths, PhD, CCC-SLP & Elizabeth Walker, PhD, CCC-A/SLP
Live and Interactive Podcast • 0.10 ASHA CEUs
Examine the connection between communication disorders and students’ social-emotional well-being, with strategies for creating supportive therapy environments, collaborating with educators and families, and helping students build confidence and participation.
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September 3
Self-Control and Motivation: Helping Children Work Toward Goals
Garrett Oyama, MS, CCC-SLP, with Kentaro Fujita, PhD
On-Demand Podcast • 0.10 ASHA CEUs
Look beyond willpower to understand the science of self-control and motivation, including how perspective, environment, and the way children think about their goals can influence persistence and engagement.
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September 4
Beyond the Echo: Honoring Autistic Communication Through Connection
Michelle Dawson, MS, CCC-SLP, CLC, BCS-S, FNAP, with Farwa Husain, MS, CCC-SLP
On-Demand Podcast • 0.10 ASHA CEUs
Consider echolalia as meaningful communication and learn relationship-based, neurodiversity-affirming approaches that use caregiver coaching, co-regulation, and everyday interactions to support autistic communicators.
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September 4
Infant Feeding in Practice: Breast & Bottle Feeding Case Studies
Melissa Davis, MS, CCC-SLP, CLC
Live and Interactive Webinar • 0.10 ASHA CEUs • 1.0 R-CERPs
Work through real-world breast and bottle feeding cases to strengthen clinical reasoning from assessment through intervention, with strategies for treatment planning, documentation, and interdisciplinary collaboration.
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September 7
Finding Your Voice: Advocacy and PFD in Schools
Michelle Dawson, MS, CCC-SLP, CLC, BCS-S, FNAP, with Mary Dooher, MA, CCC-SLP
On-Demand Podcast • 0.10 ASHA CEUs
Examine the realities of addressing pediatric feeding disorder and dysphagia in schools, including interprofessional collaboration, systems-level advocacy, and ways SLPs can help improve access to safe feeding and swallowing services.
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September 7
Keep Calm and Speech On: How to Work With Emotions
Stephanie Michele Sweigart, MS, CCC-SLP
On-Demand Podcast • 0.05 ASHA CEUs
Learn to view emotions as valuable sources of information and use emotional awareness, unmet needs, and the RAIN mindfulness framework to navigate challenging clinical interactions with greater intention.
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September 8
Making Sense of Responsive Feeding Therapy: Caregiver Involvement
Madi Metcalf, MS, CCC-SLP, with Stephanie Cohen, MA, CCC-SLP, CLC
Live and Interactive Podcast • 0.10 ASHA CEUs
Learn ways to meaningfully involve caregivers in responsive feeding therapy, from including families in sessions to coaching them on strategies they can confidently carry into everyday mealtimes.
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September 9
You Are the Intervention: The Work Before the Work
Treva Graves, MA, CCC-SLP
Live and Interactive Webinar • 0.10 ASHA CEUs
Explore “the work before the work” with The Unconventional Team Framework, focusing on self-awareness, nervous system regulation, communication, and confidence as foundations for stronger collaboration and sustainable school-based practice.
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September 9
Speech Sound Disorders and Adverse Educational Impact
Carolyn Dolby, MS, CCC-SLP, with Angie Neal, MS, CCC-SLP
Live and Interactive Podcast • 0.10 ASHA CEUs
Clarify what adverse educational impact means for students with speech sound disorders and learn ways to collect and document meaningful data that supports IDEA eligibility decisions and connects services to educational outcomes.
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September 10
Clinical Q&A With Char: Solving Frontal and Lateral Lisp Challenges
Char Boshart, MA, CCC-SLP
Live and Interactive Podcast • 0.10 ASHA CEUs
Bring your challenging frontal and lateral lisp cases to this clinical Q&A and learn strategies for troubleshooting persistent errors, inconsistent productions, treatment plateaus, and other common therapy roadblocks.
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September 11
Busting Concussion Myths: What SLPs Need to Know
Michelle Dawson, MS, CCC-SLP, CLC, BCS-S, FNAP, with Laura Wilson, PhD, CCC-SLP, CBIST, Rachel Hildebrand, PhD, LAT/ATC, CBIS & Jennifer Steward, PhD
On-Demand Podcast • 0.10 ASHA CEUs
Separate concussion myths from current evidence while examining how symptoms can differ across childhood and adolescence, current management practices, and the SLP’s role on an interprofessional concussion care team.
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September 13
Dynamic Assessment for CLD Learners: Word Learning & Narrative
Maria Chisolm, MS, CCC-SLP
Live and Interactive Webinar • 0.20 ASHA CEUs
Use dynamic assessment to help distinguish language difference from disorder in culturally and linguistically diverse learners, with a focus on test-teach-retest, mediated learning, word learning, narrative language, and modifiability.
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September 14
More Than Words: How Communication Disorders Affect Healthcare
Renee Garrett, MSEd, CCC-SLP, CBIS, with Hilary Sample, MA, CCC-SLP
Live and Interactive Podcast • 0.10 ASHA CEUs
Examine how communication disorders can affect patient safety, symptom reporting, decision-making, treatment adherence, and self-advocacy, with strategies for improving communication access and health literacy.
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September 15
Back to Basics on Gestalt Language Processing
Corinne Zmoos, MS, CCC-SLP, with Emily Byers Chaney, MS, CCC-SLP
Live and Interactive Podcast • 0.10 ASHA CEUs
Review the foundations of gestalt language processing, including echolalia, language modeling, play-based intervention, and the history of GLP discourse, with clinical examples for supporting language and reciprocal interactions.
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September 16
Differential Diagnosis: Aphasia and Apraxia of Speech
Brielle C. Stark, PhD
Live and Interactive Webinar • 0.10 ASHA CEUs
Strengthen your differential diagnosis of aphasia and apraxia of speech by examining error patterns, diagnostic markers, assessment tasks, and overlapping presentations across language and motor speech domains.
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September 16
Using Language Comprehension Curricula in Schools
Carolyn Dolby, MS, CCC-SLP, with Hannah Hudson, MS, CCC-SLP
Live and Interactive Podcast • 0.10 ASHA CEUs
Learn how language comprehension curricula can support elementary students with language and literacy difficulties, including considerations for choosing a curriculum, overcoming implementation barriers, and collaborating with educators.
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September 17
AI in Speech Pathology: Using It Effectively and Responsibly
Garrett Oyama, MS, CCC-SLP, with Matthew Guggemos, MS, CCC-SLP
Live and Interactive Podcast • 0.10 ASHA CEUs
Learn how AI for SLPs can support speech therapy practice while keeping clinical judgment at the center. Examine potential uses for AI in speech therapy along with concerns including inaccurate information, automation bias, privacy, and overreliance on generated recommendations.
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September 18
The Confident EI SLP: Feeding, Coaching, and Real-Life Care
Michelle Dawson, MS, CCC-SLP, CLC, BCS-S, FNAP, with Margaryta Kuzmin, MA, CCC-SLP, TSSLD-BE
On-Demand Podcast • 0.10 ASHA CEUs
Explore the many roles of the early intervention SLP, from feeding and communication to caregiver coaching and collaboration, using the C.O.N.F.I.D.E.N.T. EI SLP framework to support functional, family-centered care.
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September 21
Beyond Compliance: IEEs, Procedural Safeguards and Family Partnerships
Elizabeth Perry, MS, CCC-SLP
Live and Interactive Webinar • 0.20 ASHA CEUs
Understand Independent Educational Evaluations and procedural safeguards through the family’s perspective, with evidence-based strategies for strengthening trust, improving accessibility, reducing conflict, and supporting family-professional partnerships.
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September 22
Making Sense of Responsive Feeding Therapy: Responsive Feeding Therapy In Action
Madi Metcalf, MS, CCC-SLP, with Jenny McGlothlin, MS, CCC-SLP, CLC
Live and Interactive Podcast • 0.10 ASHA CEUs
See responsive feeding therapy principles in action, including how to honor a child’s autonomy, adapt the approach across populations, and meaningfully involve caregivers in feeding sessions and everyday routines.
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September 23
Executive Function in Younger Students
Margo Kinzer Courter, MBA, MA, CCC-SLP, BCS-CL
Live and Interactive Webinar • 0.10 ASHA CEUs
Use a kindergarten case study to examine how working memory, attention, flexible thinking, planning, organization, and self-monitoring can be supported within language intervention and reinforced through educator collaboration.
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September 24
Breathwork for Communication and Emotional Regulation
Angela Dupree, MA, CCC-SLP, RYT 200, Breathwork Facilitator
Live and Interactive Webinar • 0.10 ASHA CEUs
Examine the science and physiology of breathwork and learn how to determine when specific techniques may support clients with voice, fluency, communication, and nervous system regulation within the SLP’s scope of practice.
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September 28
Pill Dysphagia: The Overlooked Challenge of Medication Swallowing
Renee Garrett, MSEd, CCC-SLP, CBIS, with Katie Decker, MA, CCC-SLP
Live and Interactive Podcast • 0.10 ASHA CEUs
Take a closer look at pill dysphagia, including how medication characteristics, swallowing physiology, cognition, and neurologic conditions can affect medication swallowing, safety, and adherence.
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September 29
Beyond “Won’t”: Trauma, Regulation, and Collaborative Care
Michelle Dawson, MS, CCC-SLP, CLC, BCS-S, FNAP, with Lauren Thompson, MEd, CCC-SLP, CLC & Allissa Younan, MS, OTR/L
Live and Interactive Podcast • 0.10 ASHA CEUs
Reframe apparent refusal through a trauma-sensitive lens and learn how an OT-SLP approach to regulation, co-regulation, caregiver partnership, and therapeutic safety can support children with complex needs.
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September 30
Supervision in Practice: Tackling Professionalism
Justine Springs, MA, CCC-SLP, and Katherine Mendez, MA, CCC-SLP
Live and Interactive Webinar • 0.10 ASHA CEUs
Make professionalism concerns more concrete by identifying observable behaviors, connecting them to clear expectations, and considering how culture, language, age, generation, and other individual differences can influence perceptions of professionalism.
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Keep Learning This September
Whether you’re joining us for a live webinar, participating in an interactive podcast, or learning on your own schedule, we hope these new courses for SLPs give you more ways to learn about the topics that matter to your practice.
With the largest video course library for SLPs, Speech Therapy PD makes it easy to keep learning throughout your career. Choose from live and interactive courses, on-demand learning, and SLP podcasts covering topics across the lifespan, all while earning ASHA CEUs on your 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.
