Focusing on Strengths to Build Student Communication and Engagement: Best Buy

This Best Buy includes four courses designed to introduce learners to a practical skill – and related tool(s) – and then guide them through applying it and evaluating the results. Each course is worth 0.05 ASHA CEUs (0.5 professional development hours) and consists of six 5-minute blocks. The four courses in this Best Buy demonstrate the value of focusing on students’ strengths when working to strengthen social communication and engagement.

The four 30-minute courses in this Best Buy are:

• Identifying Student Strengths (WEB18260)
• Building on Student Strengths (WEB18261)
• Writing Strengths-Based Goals for Students (WEB18262)
• Empowering Paraeducators (WEB18263)

What is a micro course?
Designed to fit your busy schedule, micro courses are 30-minute courses that are broken into six 5-minute blocks, two of which are speaker-led and four of which guide you through practicing a new strategy with a client on your current caseload.

What is a Best Buy?
A Best Buy is a collection of related courses. In one transaction, you get access to four related micro courses. You can complete each micro course and complete the learning assessment to earn CE credit at your leisure.

Learning Assessment
Self-assessment