Live Chats at Improving Outcomes in Schools: Building on Student Strengths

June 18–30, 2025 | Online Conference

At online conferences, you get the convenience of at-home learning combined with real-time access to speakers. Add these dates and times to your schedule!

All times listed are Eastern time.

This online conference will utilize live video chats, where presenters will address your questions. We encourage you to attend live if at all possible, but if you have a schedule conflict, you can watch a recording of the chat on demand before the last day of the conference. You may report for CE credit for either the live chat or the recording, but not both.

Friday, June 20, 2025
2 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. ET Seijra Toogood, SLPD, CCC-SLP
Topic: Utilizing a Strengths-Based Approach to Writing Goals for Multilingual Students
Monday, June 23, 2025
12:30 p.m. – 1 p.m. ET Victoria Bondurant, MS, CCC-SLP, and Joseph Walsh, MS, MEd, CCC-SLP
Topic: Reframe, Reflect, Rehearse: An Executive Functioning & Strengths-Based Approach to Changing Student Behavior
2 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. ET Amy Donaldson, PhD, CCC-SLP, and endever* corbin
Topic: Promoting Autistic Students’ Strengths and Authenticity
3:30 p.m. – 4 p.m. ET Lauren Enders Gonzales, MA, CCC-SLP
Topic: Blooming With AAC: Cultivating Communication Through Strengths-Based Approaches
Tuesday, June 24, 2025
12:30 p.m. – 1 p.m. ET Shannon Hall-Mills, PhD, CCC-SLP
Topic: Maximizing Impact: Leveraging Your Strengths as a School-Based SLP
2 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. ET  Geralyn Timler, PhD, CCC-SLP
Topic: Strengths- and Person-Informed Social Communication Assessment and Supports
3:30 p.m. – 4 p.m. ET  Kim Murza, PhD, CCC-SLP
Topic: A Strengths-Based Approach: What Is It, and Why Now? and A Strengths-Based Approach to the IEP Process
Wednesday, June 25, 2025
12:30 p.m. – 1 p.m. ET Melissa Edrich, EdD, CCC-SLP, and Erin Beasley, MS, CCC-SLP
Topic: Using Your Strengths for Supervision
2 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. ET J. Scott Yaruss, PhD, CCC-SLP, BCS-F, and Nina Reeves, MS, CCC-SLP, BCS-F
Topic: Stuttering Intervention: Shifting Perspectives and Building Communication Strength
Thursday, June 26, 2025
2 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. ET  Stephanie Hubbell, MS, CCC-SLP
Topic: Empowering SLPs: Navigating Teacher Coaching and Consultation
"This conference was outstanding! It came full circle and gave a strong overview of using a strength-based approach [while] also providing details and plenty of take-home value."
Elizabeth R., CCC-SLP
"The importance of a strength-based approach cannot be underestimated and is so important, especially for school-based SLPs who are governed by the deficit-driven IEP process."
Jennifer O., CCC-SLP

Preparation

  • Live video chats last for 30 minutes.
  • Chat times are preset; clear your schedule now so you can participate in each one.
  • Listen to the recorded sessions before participating.
  • Have your questions ready so you can get the answers you need!

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