There are four ways to earn CEU credits.  You can attend sessions at professional meetings, such as NCSHLA, attend workshops, participate in ASHA offerings, or enroll in college credit courses.  Perhaps you will want to consider or reevaluate these options as we approach the impending ASHA requirements for continuing education that begins in 2005.

Often SLPs leave professional presentations and workshops feeling like they merely scratched the surface of a topic they find interesting and consider valuable.  A major advantage of full semester college credit courses is the opportunity to study a topic in depth.  There may also be advantages to adding course credits to one's graduate transcripts.

Is the pressure to really learn in depth material in order to meet the requirements of a college credit course an advantage or disadvantage?  Some SLPs know they will gain more from the experience if they have the incentive of a course grade to "inspire" them to greater efforts.

Perhaps one or more of the advantages of college credit courses for continuing education purposes appeals to you.  If the major reason you have not enrolled in such courses is that attending on-campus classes is problematic for you, the Consortium may be able to offer courses of interest to you via distance education.  You may be able to receive videotapes or CD-ROM's of the classes in a course while keeping up with the assignments and student-student, as well as student-instructor, interactions on your home computer.

There are certain computer requirements that are essential to participating in the distance education courses offered by the Consortium.  If you can meet those requirements, and you have or are willing to learn basic computer skills, one or more of our distance courses may interest you.

Perhaps you are one of the SLPs who responded to a 2001 survey and expressed your interest in college credit courses.  If so, your interests have been recorded in a database and we will contact you when the courses you identified become available.  Of course, we can only contact you if we have the correct contact information, so please advise us of address, email, name, etc. changes.