SLPA Foundations Course

Recorded in 2024 by Deanne Wayt, MA, CCC-SLP and Stacey Bryden, MS, CCC-SLP

On-Demand Recorded Training (5 Hours)

Tailored specifically for SLPAs, this series offers unparalleled opportunities for practical career development and confidence building. You’ll not only enhance your professional skills but also fulfill your continuing education requirements for licensure, all while bolstering your resume. This asynchronous 5-hour course provides flexible, on-demand access to high-quality instruction to help you strengthen your skills, confidence, and effectiveness in clinical practice.

What You’ll Get

• Unlimited on-demand access to the full 5-hour recorded course — watch anytime, at your own pace
• Practical strategies and real-world applications tailored to the SLPA role
• Content aligned with continuing education and professional growth needs
• Continuing Education Certificate for 5.0 Hours
• Tools and ideas applicable across clinical settings, including:
  • Therapy ideas for a variety of service delivery environments
  • Evidence-based strategies at your fingertips
  • Case-based learning to address common clinical questions

Course Content

The SLPA Foundations Course covers core areas essential to SLPA practice, including:

1. Professionalism for SLPAs — Navigating scope of practice, ethics, and collaborative relationships (1.0 Hour)
2. Building Therapeutic Relationships — Prioritizing connection for effective therapy (1.0 Hour)
3. Understanding Autism — Integrating regulation supports, sensory considerations, and trauma-informed practice (1.0 Hour)
4. Enhancing Therapy Effectiveness — Prompting, feedback, data collection, and documentation essentials (1.0 Hour)
5. Effective Therapy Planning — Selecting and implementing evidence-based interventions (1.0 Hour)

Who It’s For

• Practicing SLPAs seeking to strengthen clinical skills
• SLPA students or trainees preparing for fieldwork
• SLPA Professionals wanting structured, practical guidance for everyday therapy implementation

Course Benefits

• Gain tools and strategies you can apply immediately
• Build confidence in clinical decision-making
• Support ongoing professional development in a flexible learning format

Access Details

• 5 hours of recorded content
• On-demand, 24/7 access for a full year
• Learn at your own pace, from anywhere

Instructor Biographies at the time of his course recording (2024):

Stacey Bryden, M.S., CCC-SLP owns Chatter House Therapies, a private speech-language pathology practice in Los Angeles, California. Her areas of specialty include speech sound disorders, autism, trauma-informed practice, and early intervention. Stacey brings over two decades of experience as an SLP and has worked with and supervised speech-language pathology assistants for over ten years. She is also a frequent guest speaker, presenting on professional topics since 2015. Stacey has worked as a part-time lecturer at California State University, East Bay. Passionate about fostering learning and community, she has founded online support spaces for families and professionals since 2020. Her overarching goal is to empower caregivers and clinicians through education, connection, and improved accessibility. In 2023, Stacey piloted this course for SLPAs, focused on education, reflection, and connection.

Deanne Wayt, MA, CCC-SLP is a full-time lecturer and clinic director in the Department of Speech-Language Pathology at California State University, Long Beach. She has worked in Washington DC, Montana, Colorado, California, and Santiago, Chile across a variety of settings, including schools, hospitals, and private clinics. She has also owned an early-intervention private practice. Deanne served early childhood clients at the CSULB Speech and Language Clinic and supervises SLPA interns each semester. She is fluent in Spanish and conversational in French. Deanne is passionate about caregiver coaching, providing culturally and linguistically responsive and neurodiversity-affirming services, and engaging in reflective supervision with students and interns in clinical academic settings.

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