Upcoming Events
April
Leadership Through Systems: Scaling ABA Services Without Sacrificing Quality
As demand for Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) services grows, many organizations face the challenge of expanding access while maintaining the clinical integrity and quality that clients deserve. Scaling services without the proper systems in place can introduce significant risks including breakdowns in communication, inconsistent documentation, gaps in supervision, and reduced treatment fidelity. This webinar explores how effective leadership and well-designed organizational systems work together to support sustainable growth. Participants will examine common risks that emerge when organizations expand faster than their infrastructure can support and learn how leaders can proactively address these challenges through thoughtful planning and operational design. Attendees will also explore key leadership responsibilities that ensure quality remains central during periods of growth. The session will highlight how leaders can use organizational data to guide decisions, monitor service quality, and identify operational risks before they affect outcomes. In addition, participants will learn how technology, standardized workflows, and operational systems can strengthen ethical service delivery, improve consistency, and support program effectiveness across growing teams. By the end of the webinar, participants will gain practical insights into building the leadership structures, data practices, and operational systems necessary to scale ABA services responsibly while preserving high-quality care.
- Identify organizational risks when scaling occurs without the needed infrastructure (clinical, operational, documentation workflows, quality monitoring)
- Describe four leadership responsibilities required to maintain quality while scaling services.
- Identify organizational data that supports leadership decision, including indicators of service quality, operational risk, and program effectiveness.
- Describe how technology, workflows and operational systems can be leveraged to support ethical and high-quality service delivery
Using Transdisciplinary Collaboration to Implement Theme-Based Collaborative Language Groups for Learners with Complex Communication Needs
Designing meaningful group learning experiences for students with complex communication needs is essential and achievable. Creating theme-based collaborative language groups that effectively support diverse communication profiles. Through an outcomes-focused approach, attendees will learn how to integrate relevant vocabulary, age-appropriate activities, differentiated materials, flexible group structures, scaffolded supports, multiple response modalities, and visual aids. Educators and team members will be equipped with practical strategies for fostering engagement, enhancing communication opportunities, and increasing student participation within group learning environments.
- Participants will describe key considerations to surmount potential barriers when implementing group instruction for learners with complex communication needs
- Participants will demonstrate understanding of collaborative group planning used to integrate multiple disciplines into theme-based language groups for learners
with CCN - Participants will explain how to structure an engaging theme-based language group and possible activities to incorporate for learners with CCN
ASHA Only
May
Selective Mutism, Anxiety and Communication
The characteristics of selective mutism will be discussed, as well as strategies that can be used during therapy sessions to support communication.
● Participants will be able to list at least three characteristics of Selective Mutism 2.
● Participants will be able to define the differences between Selective Mutism & Autism
● Participants will be able state why speech can be difficult due to high anxiety
● Participants will be able to list three ways to therapeutically support a person with Selective Mutism
ASHA and ACE Course
The Power of Joint Attention
In this course participants will learn about the importance of joint attention. Participants will learn about many specific actionable strategies that they can use to embed work on joint attention in their therapy sessions. This is an ASHA and ACE approved course
- You should feel prepared in this skill so you can truly support your early learners who struggle with engagement.
- Learn practical strategies, including using books, music, and play to develop essential joint attention skills with your students.
- Get actionable tools and resources so that therapy with non-speaking learners doesn’t feel overwhelming or frustrating.
ASHA and ACE Approved Course
June
Are You Designing for Communication Access or Just Choosing a Device?
In this course we will discuss why communication access matters, how to select a communication modality and the exploration of multiple modality communication.
- Differentiate between AAC as a high-tech device-selection exercise and AAC as a comprehensive, multimodal communication access methodology grounded in evidence-based practice.
- Identify and describe diverse forms of communication, including sign, gesture, picture selection / exchange, voice, gaze, movement, rhythm, facial expression, technology, silence, and shared space, and explain how these can function in personalized communication supports.
- Analyze how marginalized communities, including the (D)eaf Community, model rich, linguistically valid communication that challenge normalization-based and pathology-driven intervention frameworks.
ASHA and ACE Event