Many young
adults with mild-to-moderate communication disorders struggle to achieve their
postsecondary goals. This webinar will equip SLPs working in private practice,
health care, or school settings to utilize language-based social-emotional coping
strategies to help young adults with language impairments improve their
self-efficacy, career readiness, and employability. The presenter will address
how SLPs can use their expertise and existing evidence-based strategies to help
mitigate the adverse effects of young adults' disabilities in the workplace and
other postsecondary settings. The webinar will include simple, practical,
time-efficient, transferable, and billable strategies that SLPs can teach to
help young adults function in predictable but challenging situations on the job
and in other educational or community settings.
Learning
Outcomes
You will
be able to:
- List at least three risk factors
associated with social-emotional communication disorders that predict
difficulties for young adults in the workplace or other postsecondary
settings
- Identify at least three
social-emotional communication skill deficits and match appropriate
intervention techniques to help prepare young adults to cope effectively with
daily workplace stressors
- Draft a treatment goal that
complies with your state’s Medicaid guidelines
Contents
- Introduction to the Problem,
Research, and SLP Expertise/Skill Set (20
min.)
- Poll (5 min.)
- Employer Reports, Risk Factors,
Assessments, and Case Studies (30 min.)
- Caseload Reflection (5
min.)
- Common Challenges and
Strategies (45 min.)
- Draft Treatment Goal and
Q&A (15 min.)
Presenter
Information
Phyllis
R. Scott, PhD, CCC-SLP (she/her/hers) is an ASHA-certified
speech-language
pathologist with a doctorate in social psychology.
Phyllis has 33 years
of experience working in the field. She served as the
state
coordinator/supervisor for Speech-Language, Dyslexia, and Section 504
services at the
Louisiana Department of Education, where she also monitored
Section 504 and IDEA
services statewide. She served several years on the ASHA
School Finance
Committee, ASHA Schools Issues Ad Hoc Committee and Advisory
Board, and State
Education Agencies Communication Disabilities Council. Phyllis
recently retired
from Louisiana Schools and is employed in Texas as the SLP at
a Cypress-Fairbanks
Independent School District high school. Phyllis's research
and current passion
are focused on the SLP's role in teaching social and
emotional
communication (SEC) skills to improve college/career readiness and
employability for
students with mild-to-moderate disabilities. Phyllis is the
CEO of Thrival
Communication Plus, LLC, a business focused on speech-language
and social-emotional
communication strategies to improve quality-of-life
outcomes for adults
with neurodiversity, hidden illnesses, disabilities, and
other conditions
that impose barriers in the workplace.
Financial
Disclosures:
- Financial compensation from ASHA
for this presentation
Nonfinancial
Disclosures:
Assessment
Type
Self-assessment—Think
about what you learned and report on the Completion Form how you will use your
new
knowledge.
To earn
continuing education credit, you must complete and submit the learning
assessment by the end date below.
Program
History and CE
Information
Live
webinar date: September 28, 2023
End date: September 30, 2028
This course is offered for 0.2 ASHA CEUs (Intermediate level, Professional area).
