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Continued provides high-quality education to thousands of professionals annually in the fields of athletic training, audiology, early childhood education, occupational therapy, physical therapy, respiratory therapy, social work, and speech-language pathology. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________
As 2021 comes to a close, the editors of Continued's family of continuing education websites have rounded up their top course picks for the year.
Over the past year, Continued has fulfilled more than 1 million course completions and added a new professional area—respiratory therapy—to its family of professions.
“Continued offers meaningful, relevant content to professionals in the fields we serve,” said Carolyn Smaka, AuD, editor in chief of Continued.“Continued's courses offer a balance of emerging topics and trends while also covering the basics, best practices, and subject areas that professionals want and need to serve them in their daily, life-changing work.”
2021 EDITOR PICKS:
From Christy Huynh, AuD, managing editor of AudiologyOnline:
- 20Q: Remote Hearing Aid Programming - Getting Started
- Hearing, Concussion, and Sound Processing in the Brain
- Yes, Real-Ear Measures Matter to Your Patients
- Don’t Miss the Point! The Importance of Detecting Hidden Audiogram Notches
- The Expanding Use Cases of Today’s Hearing Aids
From Jessica Lewis, MEd, ECSE, managing editor of Early Childhood Education:
- Caring for Yourself While Caring for Others
- Young Children Making Stories: Playful Literacy Magic
- Teaching Children with Autism: Critical Skills, Writing Goals, and Monitoring Progress
- Kids in the Kitchen: Supersize Their Learning
- Social-Emotional Development Theories and the Early Childhood Classroom
From Fawn Carson, OTD, OTR/L, ATP, senior managing editor of OccupationalTherapy.com:
- Creating Functional Homes for Dementia
- Understanding Primitive Reflexes: How They Impact Child Development and Intervention Strategies for Integration
- How To Fix Common Handwriting Challenges In Pediatric Therapy
- A Sensory Approach to Home
- Finding the Person Within: Utilizing Occupational Therapy to Promote Person-Centered Care in Treatment of Individuals with Dementia
From Calista Kelly, PT, DPT, ACEEAA, Cert. MDT, senior managing editor of PhysicalTherapy.com:
- Justifying Medical Necessity in Documentation: Screens to Skilled Services
- High-Alert Medications in Home Health
- Rehab Professionals Guide to Diaphragm Rehabilitation After Mechanical Ventilation
- Whole Body Treatment and Considerations for the Precrawling Infant
- Gait Training in SCI: A Review Current Research and Clinical Interventions
From Farzana Chowdhury, MS, CCC-SLP, BSRC, RRT-NPS, managing editor of Respiratory Therapy:
- Imaging (CXR) Diagnostics: Interpretation and Case Studies
- What’s Anesthesia Got To Do With It?
- Acute Non-Invasive Ventilation
- Preparing Complex Medical Patients for Successful Community Integration
- Surviving Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) From Patient to Patient Engagement
From Katrinna Matthews, DSW, MEd, LAPSW, managing editor of Social Work:
- Boundary Issues and Dual Relationships in Social Work
- Animal-Assisted Interventions to Enhance Social Work Practice
- Co-Occurring Substance Use and Mental Disorders: Best Practices and Evidence-Based Treatments
- Common Anxiety Disorders and Interventions to Manage Them
- The Ethics of Harm Reduction: Approaches in Social Work Practice
From Amy Hansen, MA, CCC-SLP, senior managing editor of SpeechPathology.com:
- ApPARENTly This Is Not Going Well: Difficult Conversations with Parents
- Ethics in Social Media
- Assessment of Childhood Apraxia of Speech
- The Forest or the Trees: Functional Goal-Setting for Adult Rehabilitation
- Cranial Nerve Anatomy and Physiology for the Speech-Language Pathologist
“Continued offers meaningful, relevant content to professionals in the fields we serve.” — Carolyn Smaka, AuD, editor in chief