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Trauma-Informed Therapy for Autistic People

Instructors: Sharon Hammer, LPC and Lisa Hoeme, LPC
In this self-paced continuing education course, you'll learn how to approach your work with Autistic clients using a supporting, affirming, trauma-informed lens. This course offers deeply thoughtful and concrete ways that you can support your Autistic clients' sense of safety and acceptance. Trauma-Informed Therapy for Autistic People is designed for mental health professionals, OTs, SLPs, and other professionals who support Autistic clients.

Registered for .75 AOTA CEUs (7.5 contact hours), .75 ASHA CEUs, 7.5 NASP CEUs, and 7.5 ASWB ACE credits. Now open for pre-registration at the lowest price we'll offer with one year's enrollment! The course launches March 13th.
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Therapy Bundle

Instructors: Meg Ferrell, Rachel Dorsey, Kate McLaughlin
If you’ve never purchased a 5+ hour course from LPT, it’s time to FILL YOUR TOOL BOX. You can get 2 or more of our in-depth courses with one year’s access at a 15% discount! New customers only.  

- The Learn Play Thrive Approach to Autism
- Authentic AAC
- Goal Writing for Autistic Students
- Let's UNMASC
- Trauma Informed Therapy for Autistic People
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Let’s UNMASC

Instructors: Rachel Dorsey, MS, CCC-SLP and V Tisi, M.A., CCC-SLP
In this self-paced continuing education course, Autistic SLPs Rachel Dorsey and V Tisi teach you a concrete system to guide clinical reasoning for Autistic social communication that centers authenticity and acceptance while considering the real demands and nuance of our clinical practices and an Autistic child’s daily life.

This course is registered for .575 AOTA CEUS (5.75 contact hours), .55 ASHA CEUs, 5.75 ASWB ACE credits.
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Goal Writing for Autistic Students: A Neurodiversity-Affirming Approach

Instructor: Rachel Dorsey, MS, CCC-SLP
In this course, Autistic SLP Rachel Dorsey teaches you how to set your therapy on the right track with strengths-based goals and a neurodiversity-affirming approach. This comprehensive guide will allow you to tackle goal setting with confidence and enthusiasm so that you can make a greater impact on your autistic students’ lives.
   
Registered for 1.05 AOTA CEUs and 1.05 ASHA CEUs (10.5 contact hours).
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Authentic AAC: Implementing Communication Systems for Autonomy & Connection

Instructor: Kate McLaughlin, CCC-SLP
In this course, Kate McLaughlin, CCC-SLP gives you the tools you need to support your emergent communicators in a way that fosters their autonomy, self-determination, and connection to those around them. This course is 12 contact hours and will transform YOU into the AAC expert you've been waiting for.
   
Registered for 1.2 AOTA CEUs and 1.2 ASHA CEUs (12 contact hours).
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Trauma-Informed Therapy for Autistic People

Instructors: Sharon Hammer, LPC and Lisa Hoeme, LPC
In this self-paced continuing education course, you'll learn how to approach your work with Autistic clients using a supporting, affirming, trauma-informed lens. This course offers deeply thoughtful and concrete ways that you can support your Autistic clients' sense of safety and acceptance. Trauma-Informed Therapy for Autistic People is designed for mental health professionals, OTs, SLPs, and other professionals who support Autistic clients.

Registered for .75 AOTA CEUs (7.5 contact hours), .75 ASHA CEUs, 7.5 NASP CEUs, and 7.5 ASWB ACE credits. Now open for pre-registration at the lowest price we'll offer with one year's enrollment! The course launches March 13th.
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A Strengths Based Approach to Supporting Autistic Kids (On-Demand)

Instructor: Meg Ferrell, MS, OTR/L
In this on demand version of our popular live training, discover how to interpret behavior and generate interventions using a deep understanding of how Autistic people think and learn. You’ll learn a process that helps you create more effective and relevant interventions every time based on Autistic learning styles and your individual client's strengths.
   
This course is registered for .25 AOTA CEUS (2.5 contact hours), .25 ASHA CEUs, 2.50 ASWB ACE credits.
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Ethics & Neurodiversity: Let’s Talk About Sex

Sarah Selvaggio-Hernandez,
In this one-hour self-study ethics course, Autistic OT Sarah Selvaggi-Hernandez highlights the importance of OTs, SLPs, psychologists, and mental health practitioners addressing sexual health, reproductive rights, and consent with our neurodivergent clients. She ties together our professional codes of ethics and the neurodiversity model to teach concrete ways to support the development of positive sexual identity and practice harm reduction for our clients of all ages. This course will be registered for .1 AOTA & ASHA CEUs (one contact hour).
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The Learn Play Thrive Approach to Autism

Instructor: Meg Ferrell, MS, OTR/L
Without training in autism-specific interventions, you can feel ineffective and discouraged in your work. In this 6 contact hour, self-paced CEU course, I’ll teach you the concrete skills you need to be confident that your work is making the greatest possible impact.
   
Registered for .6 AOTA CEUs, .6 ASHA CEUs (6 contact hours) and .6 ASWB ACE credits.
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Let’s UNMASC

Instructors: Rachel Dorsey, MS, CCC-SLP and V Tisi, M.A., CCC-SLP
In this self-paced continuing education course, Autistic SLPs Rachel Dorsey and V Tisi teach you a concrete system to guide clinical reasoning for Autistic social communication that centers authenticity and acceptance while considering the real demands and nuance of our clinical practices and an Autistic child’s daily life.

This course is registered for .575 AOTA CEUS (5.75 contact hours), .55 ASHA CEUs, 5.75 ASWB ACE credits.
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Goal Writing for Autistic Students: A Neurodiversity-Affirming Approach

Instructor: Rachel Dorsey, MS, CCC-SLP
In this course, Autistic SLP Rachel Dorsey teaches you how to set your therapy on the right track with strengths-based goals and a neurodiversity-affirming approach. This comprehensive guide will allow you to tackle goal setting with confidence and enthusiasm so that you can make a greater impact on your autistic students’ lives.
   
Registered for 1.05 AOTA CEUs and 1.05 ASHA CEUs (10.5 contact hours).
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Live and Recorded Trainings

In-depth virtual workshops to get you more confident and effective in your work.

International
Scholarships

Full scholarships to The Learn Play Thrive Approach to Autism are available to OTs and other professionals working in under-resourced countries. Scholarships are issued in late July and early January.

To apply, please fill out this short application.

Past Recipients

Princess Yvette Gutierrez

The Philippines

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Andrea Beatriz Zurita Valle

Peru

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Jillian Eborde

The Philippines

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Watch our Free Masterclass

Our free masterclass, 4 Essential Steps Towards a Strengths-Based Approach to Autism, is a 50-minute deep dive into why so many SLPs and OTs are using the wrong lens in their autism interventions, why it matters way more than we may realize, and much more.

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Autism Best Practices Quiz

Is your work with kids on the spectrum truly aligned with your core values? Does it reflect best practices, and demonstrate your commitment to respecting the strengths of kids who think and learn differently?

Take this simple 2 minute quiz to find out. You may be surprised by the answer!

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