Renew Your LSLS Certification with ALL FREE CEUs!

After an extremely extended hiatus (!), I am returning to my long-lost blog!  I have lots of ideas for posts, so hopefully I can keep with it!

Are you in the midst of continuing education to renew or obtain your LSLS Certification?  If so, you’re in luck with lots of opportunities for FREE CEUs.  Taking the online courses below, you will have more than enough hours to renew!  (Taking all the courses below will give you 17 LSLS credits.  You need 15 LSLS credits to renew certification.)

1.  The first course—which you need to put at the top of your list due availability—is the National Center for Hearing Assessment and Management’s course, “Parent Training and Support” course.  It is only available through October 22, 2014.  This free course, presented in four portions, offers 5 hours or .5 LSLS CEUs of credit!  You can access it at

http://www.infanthearing.org/elearning/index.html#webinars

Scroll down to “Workshops in Session” to find “Parent Training and Support.”  You will sign up using the first link, Parent Training and Support Workshop With CEUs and Certificate of Completion.”  Following completion of the online training, they’ll send you a LSLS CEU form and certificate of completion.  Note:  They’ll also give you ASHA or AAA, too!

2.  The second set of courses is an online series, offered by ESC 11 out of Texas.  You don’t have to be a Texas professional to take advantage of these courses!  You can find these at

https://mis.esc11.net/ 

At the top right side, you’ll see a “search” option.  Type in “Listening” and click search.  (There might be an easier way to find them, but this is the easies way for me!)  The first 8 courses you see compromise the LSL Series.  Each module is 1 hour, so a total of 8 hours or .8 LSLS CEUs are offered for completing the entire series.   Again, all FREE!  The topics are:

Module 1:  Auditory-Verbal Practices in the Educational Setting

Module 2:  Developing Listening Skills in Children with Hearing Loss

Module 3:  Creating an Acoustic Environment for Children with Hearing Loss

Module 4:  Developing Language in Children with Hearing Loss

Module 5:  Developing Speech in Children with Hearing Loss

Module 6:  Developing Early Emergent Literacy in Children with Hearing Loss

Module 7:  Developing Vocabulary Skills in Children with Hearing Loss

Module 8:  Working with Parents and Infants with Hearing Loss

You will need to sign up for a free account with ESC 11.  After creating your account, you can enroll in the courses and take them at your convenience.  Upon completion, you can find the certificates of completion under “My Profile” à “My Transcripts.” You will send those to Susie Tiggs, Statewide Lead for Deaf/Hard of Hearing Services, at stiggs@esc11.net.

These modules are a great review…or could be great in preparation for the LSLS exam. 

3.  The last set of courses are webinars offered by the Clarke Schools for Hearing and Speech.  There are a total of four workshops, which award 1 hour or .1 LSLS CEU each.  Three are available in the archives and the fourth will be offered live on November 5, 2014 at noon.  (If you can’t watch that live, it will be available in the archives by mid-November.)  These webinars can be found at

http://www.clarkeschools.org/webinars

The topics are of the archived webinars (available now) are:

Webinar 1: Brick by Brick: Building a Thriving Network of Listening and Spoken Language Professionals

Webinar 2: Authentic Engagement: Empowering Parents to Participate During the Preschool Years

Webinar 3: Back to school: Supporting Students with Hearing Loss in Mainstream Classrooms

The November 5^th webinar is Partners in Learning: Supporting Parents of Infants and Toddlers who are Deaf and Hard of Hearing,

At the completion of each webinar, you’ll fill out a brief questionnaire, asking your information, how you heard about the course, what you learned and what you’ll use.  They’ll also ask if you want them to email you a certificate or a LSLS CEU form.  Within a couple of days, they will!

Good luck with the above courses!  Again, if you complete all of the above, you will have 17 hours or 1.7 LSLS CEUs, more than you need to renew!  I have taken all of them and found that I was able to take away good info from each.  I love the option of taking them in my home at my convenience…and the fact that they’re all free is the cherry on top!