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Extend The Connection

Mentored progression into advanced practice.

$1,3002.0 ASHA CEUs3 days live
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At a glanceUp to 2Level: Advanced3 days live
Overview

What this course is

Extend The Connection is the bridge between your first OMD course and confident, independent advanced practice. It's smaller, more mentored, and built around your real caseload.

Bring the cases that are challenging you. We refine assessment protocols, progress treatment hierarchies together with direct feedback, and map out how you grow a specialty practice from here.

By the end, you'll be able to:

  • Refine assessment protocols for advanced cases
  • Progress treatment hierarchies with mentor feedback
  • Plan your specialty practice growth
The curriculum

Day by day

Review the published course outline below.

Day 1

Refine & progress

  • Refining your assessment protocol
  • Progressing treatment hierarchies with mentor feedback
  • Bring-your-own-case workshop
  • Supervised lab time
Day 2

Grow your practice

  • Planning your specialty practice growth
  • Marketing and referral relationships
  • Documentation and outcomes tracking
  • Mentored Q&A and forward planning
The details

Everything that comes with it

What's included

  • Three days of in-person instruction
  • Up to 2.0 ASHA CEUs (20 contact hours)

Prerequisites

Completion of Make The Connection. Designed as your next step toward advanced practice.

CEU credit

Up to 2.0 ASHA CEUs (20 contact hours). Advanced level, Professional area.

Who it's for

Make The Connection graduates ready for mentored progression into advanced, independent practice.

Policies & disclosures

Before you register

ASHA notice: ASHA CE Provider approval and use of the Brand Block does not imply endorsement of course content, specific products, or clinical procedures.

Cancellation policy: For cancellations 10 or more days before the seminar, the published policy applies a $50 fee for course materials and supplies, plus merchant charges. Within 10 days, funds may be credited toward future FunctionFocus products at the instructors' discretion.

Financial disclosures: Mary Billings is the owner of Billings Speech Pathology Services, LLC and receives compensation as a course instructor. Patricia Fisher receives compensation as a course contributor or instructor.

Nonfinancial disclosures: The published course disclosures identify Mary Billings with the Oral Motor Institute Board of Directors and state that Patricia Fisher has no relevant nonfinancial disclosure.

Accommodations and complaints: Email info@function-focus.com to request an accommodation or describe a concern about purchasing, website use, course quality, or an examination. The published complaint process states that a response will follow within seven days of receipt.

Upcoming dates

Published dates

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1101 NW Innovation Parkway, Lee's Summit, MO 64086

Your instructors

Taught by

Portrait of Mary Billings

Mary Billings

MS, CCC-SLP

Founder & Lead Instructor

A speech-language pathologist who has shaped orofacial myology education since 2007. Mary chaired the IAOM's first Mentoring Committee, launched Make The Connection in 2012, and has trained thousands of clinicians across the globe with her interdisciplinary, function-first approach.

Portrait of Patricia Fisher

Patricia Fisher

MA, CCC-SLP

Co-Instructor

Co-instructor and private-practice owner in Ohio, Pat brings decades of clinical depth in proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation and hands-on therapy techniques to every course.

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