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📚 Need last-minute CEUs before the year ends? Two easy options.
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Happy holidays! ✨ If you're a procrastinator like me, you might need a few extra hours of continuing education before the calendar flips to 2026 next week. Here are some ways to earn those credits: 1) Watch us on the Learning Lab➡️ Check out this 1-hour course on YouTube all about the Tactus Virtual Rehab Center. Learn the theory behind the design and how it can help patients in three theoretical case studies! The Tactus presentation starts 4 hours and 30 minutes in.
2) Sign up for Medbridge and saveMedbridge is a popular platform for earning CEUs, and you'll get a deal when you sign up using our affiliate code. Here's how:
But I'll let you in on a little secret... Medbridge is raising its prices in January, so now is the last chance for this year's prices. On January 2, the base price increases from $270 to $405. So even with our code, you'll still pay $130 more than this week. 😱 I have no say in this, but don't say I didn't warn you! Wishing you and yours lots of love and a bright 2026 ahead! 🥂 -Megan P.S. No CEUs here, but lots of practical learning: check out our free “What SLPs Need to Know” blog series, with new posts coming in 2026! |
Megan @ Tactus Therapy
I'm a speech-language pathologist & co-founder of Tactus. Tactus offers evidence-based apps for aphasia therapy and lots of free resources, articles, and education - like this newsletter. Sign up to get my updates 1-2 times a month.
About six years ago, I published a short e-book called Setting Goals in Aphasia Therapy. This 11-page PDF has been downloaded more than 11,500 times. 🤯 Apparently, lots of SLPs want help writing goals! 🙋♀️ One page of the e-book is a template for writing SMART goals, the kind payors want to see. Goals need to be specific, measurable, relevant, and time-bound so we know when they’ve been achieved. ✅ The template asks you helpful questions… but sometimes what you really need are ideas for what...
I saw this post recently from an SLP who described feeling so “on” all day: back-to-back patients, constant talking, cueing, thinking, modeling. By the time she got home, she couldn’t even bring herself to speak. 😩 If that sounds familiar, you’re not alone. In a 2024 survey, 62% of SLPs reported symptoms of burnout. In medical settings, we can see 8, 9, 10 patients a day. There’s no built-in quiet time. No pause between sessions. Being fully “on” for hours straight takes a toll. We were...
After an acquired brain injury, subtraction often breaks down before addition. Not because it’s “harder math," but because it tends to place greater demands on working memory and executive function (Dehaene et al., 2003). Try this in your head: Most people get this quickly. 5 tens plus 7 ones = 57. Let's do another: This time, you have to hold 40 in your mind, subtract 10, then subtract 7 - mentally tracking each step to get 23. Same numbers. Different cognitive load. That extra mental...