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
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
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
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
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!
