Stretch: Rehab Therapy Education is designed to give you, the busy rehab therapist, a convenient way to listen and learn from clinical experts. Each episode is an hour-long, fully accredited course discussing evidence-based interventions. You can receive continuing education credit by completing the course exam through Relias. If you already have access to Relias and the Rehabilitation Therapy library through your employer, simply sign into the platform and search the course library for the title of the episode to take the exam. If your employer is not a Relias customer, you may purchase the course from Relias Academy (https://reliasacademy.com).
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Stretch: Rehab Therapy Education is designed to give you, the busy rehab therapist, a convenient way to listen and learn from clinical experts. Each episode is an hour-long, fully accredited course discussing evidence-based interventions. You can receive continuing education credit by completing the course exam through Relias. If you already have access to Relias and the Rehabilitation Therapy library through your employer, simply sign into the platform and search the course library for the title of the episode to take the exam. If your employer is not a Relias customer, you may purchase the course from Relias Academy (https://reliasacademy.com).
SLP – this podcast may help you meet your continuing education requirements. Access Relias Academy to review course certificate information.
Do your current formal and informal evaluation tools meet your patients’ clinical needs? Can you find useful assessment products on the market? This podcast will explore trends in assessment tools and processes for time-efficient and effective evaluations. In this episode, we talk with professor and ASHA Fellow Dr. Pamela Smith about assessment trends in speech-language pathology.
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(02:28) Key Takeaways(03:55) Building a Hypothesis with Medical Record Review(08:52) Preparing to Evaluate(12:24) Recommended Assessments and Current Shortcomings(18:13) Using Outcome Measures and Subtests(21:19) Clinical (Informal) Assessment(28:16) Limitations of Screening Tools(34:42) Evaluation Completion and Billing(39:17) Ethical Considerations(46:35) Impact of the Clinician’s Available Time(50:19) Impact of Ongoing Assessment(56:53) Impact on Value-Based Purchasing(59:53) Patient-Centered Interpretation and Goal Setting(01:05:58) Summary
The content for this course was created by Pamela A. Smith, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, ASHA Fellow, FNAP.
The content for this course was created by Susan Almon-Matangos, MS/CCC-SLP.
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Access your Relias Library offered by your employer to see course certificate information and exam; or Access the continuing education library for clinicians at Relias Academy. Review the course certificate information, and if eligible, you can purchase the course to access the course exam and receive your certificate.
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Resources
Lists of assessment tools:
Free cognitive assessment tools:https://eatspeakthink.com/online-assessment-cognition/
Aphasia: https://cehs.unl.edu/aac/aphasia-assessment-materials/
Brain injury: https://www.tbims.org/combi/list.html
Multiple purposes: https://nicespeechlady.com/listing-of-non-nicespeechlady-com-standardized-and-or-norm-referenced-measures/
Revised “Cookie Theft picture” (Berube et al., 2019): https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6437702/
Stretch: Relias Rehab Therapy Education
Stretch: Rehab Therapy Education is designed to give you, the busy rehab therapist, a convenient way to listen and learn from clinical experts. Each episode is an hour-long, fully accredited course discussing evidence-based interventions. You can receive continuing education credit by completing the course exam through Relias. If you already have access to Relias and the Rehabilitation Therapy library through your employer, simply sign into the platform and search the course library for the title of the episode to take the exam. If your employer is not a Relias customer, you may purchase the course from Relias Academy (https://reliasacademy.com).
