Speech-language pathologists in the school setting frequently encounter challenging conversations and/or conversational partners – including parents, colleagues, and administrators. In this webinar, the speaker discusses strategies for conversing with confidence and introduces a template tool SLPs can use when preparing for a difficult conversation. Finally, the webinar presents various scenarios and offer suggestions for engaging in different types of difficult discussions.

Learning Objectives:
You will be able to:

• implement strategies to more confidently interact with professional colleagues in difficult situations
• use a template for scripting comments to minimize defensive confrontational digressions in conversations
• use examples for interaction in specific difficult situations

What is a webinar?

Webinars are slide-based presentation and question-and-answer sessions that you can watch live at a pre-scheduled date and time or on-demand at your leisure after the live event occurs.

Learning assessment

Self-assessment

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This course is part of the Professional Issues in Schools learning path. What is a learning path? A learning path is a curated set of courses on an essential topic, designed for you to take in order—or in whatever order you wish—as you have time in your schedule. Our learning paths identify sets of key courses so you can get on your way to mastering particular areas of practice according to your needs, priorities, and interests.