Play, Pause, Partner: Coaching Social Communication in Early Intervention

1 EI/CPSE CEs

Thursday, January 15th, 2026

7:00pm - 8:00pm EST |
Price: $15
Online

Satisfactory completion of the course requires active participation in all journal club discussions, completion of a post-course quiz/survey with reflective responses to questions such as “What did you learn?”, “How can you use what you learned in the clinical setting?”, and “What were the study’s limitations?”. These requirements include providing thoughtful, evidence-based answers to these questions and demonstrating an understanding of the material presented.

Play (follow the child’s lead + set up communication temptations), Pause (intentional wait time to invite initiations/turns), and Partner (model, expand, and reinforce). This workshop will map these moves to pragmatic targets (joint attention, turn-taking, initiation, repair) and write measurable, routines-based goals. We’ll cover brief coaching cycles (model → practice → feedback) with data-light probes to track caregiver carryover at home.

Hosted By: 
Michelle Altamura, MS CCC-SLP TSSLD CAS

Michelle Altamura is an employee of Achieve Beyond dba Bilinguals Inc. No relevant financial relationship exists. No relevant nonfinancial relationship exists.