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# Communication & Language Resources to Help During COVID-19

## You’re rising to the occasion. We’re here to help.

With the COVID-19 pandemic still ongoing—and school and program closures continuing to affect daily life—SLPs and reading specialists are facing tough questions. What are the best ways to stay connected with children and families? How can you make the most of telepractice and remote instruction? How are other practitioners making this work?

We’ve compiled some helpful free resources to support you during the pandemic. From blog posts to webinars, these expert resources will help you meet the needs of the students and families you serve and continue your own learning while you stay safe at home.

## Recommended Resources

A roundup of articles, posts, fact sheets, and other resources packed with helpful tips and guidance.

**Resources from Brookes:**

- [6 Quick, Expert-Led Video Chats You Can Watch at Home for Free](https://brookespublishing.com/newsletters/k-12-education-newsletter/professional-development-spotlight-6-quick-expert-led-video-chats-can-watch-home-free)
- [6 Brookes Authors on Keeping Parents Engaged This Fall](https://brookespublishing.com/newsletters/k-12-education-newsletter/tips-keeping-parents-engaged-in-fall/)
- [SLPs in Inclusive Classrooms: 9 Questions Answered!](https://blog.brookespublishing.com/slps-in-inclusive-classrooms-9-questions-answered/)
- [Remote Learning Roundup: 6 Things for Teachers to Do and Remember During School Closures](https://blog.brookespublishing.com/remote-learning-roundup-6-things-for-teachers-to-do-and-remember-during-school-closures/)
- [Teaching and Parenting in Troubled Times: 6 Brookes Authors Share Their Best Advice](https://blog.brookespublishing.com/teaching-and-parenting-in-troubled-times-6-brookes-authors-share-their-best-advice/)
- [Reassuring Connections: 4 Brookes Authors Share Tips for Supporting Stressed-Out Students](https://blog.brookespublishing.com/reassuring-connections-4-brookes-authors-share-tips-for-supporting-stressed-out-students/)
- [15 Ways to Avoid Teacher Burnout](https://blog.brookespublishing.com/15-ways-to-avoid-teacher-burnout/)
- [10 Musts for Teaching Literacy Skills to Students with Significant Disabilities](https://blog.brookespublishing.com/10-musts-for-teaching-literacy-skills-to-students-with-significant-disabilities/)
- [How to use the Quick Interactive Language Screener ™ (QUILS ™) remotely](https://quilscreener.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/QUILS-Remote-Testing-Guidance-2.pdf "")

### Looking for a new professional development opportunity?

Tune in to this series of free video chats with Brookes authors, renowned experts on inclusive education, early childhood, and communication and language development.

[Watch for free](https://brookespublishing.com/coffee-chats-brookes/)

**Resources from other organizations:**

- ASHA: [Resuming Services in Schools During COVID-19](https://www.asha.org/Practice/Resuming-Services-in-Schools-During-COVID-19/)
- ASHA: [ASHA Offers Tips for Keeping Mask Use From Hindering Communication](https://www.asha.org/News/2020/ASHA-Offers-Tips-for-Keeping-Mask-Use-From-Hindering-Communication/)
- ASHA: [Communicating Effectively While Wearing Masks and Physical Distancing](https://www.asha.org/public/communicating-effectively-while-wearing-masks-and-physical-distancing/)
- Edutopia: [Starting the Year With Adaptable Literacy Preassessments](https://www.edutopia.org/article/starting-year-adaptable-literacy-preassessments)
- Edutopia: [How to Set Up a Virtual Book Club for Students](https://www.edutopia.org/article/how-set-virtual-book-club-students)
- TLC Talk Shop: [10 Back to School Freebies for Speech and Language Therapy](https://www.tlctalkshop.com/2020/08/10-back-to-school-freebies-for-speech.html)
- IDA: [Supporting Reading Comprehension: Free Resources for Remote, Hybrid, and In-Person Teaching (webinar)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jeYt54fRNEA)
- The SLP Solution: [The Future of Speech-Language Pathology: Flexible-Location Therapy](https://www.slpsolution.com/the-future-of-our-profession-flexible-location-therapy/)
- SmartBrief: [Dyslexia education in the age of COVID-19](https://www.smartbrief.com/original/2020/06/dyslexia-education-age-covid-19)
- ASHA: [Telepractice Resources During COVID-19](https://www.asha.org/About/Telepractice-Resources-During-COVID-19/)
- ASHA Leader Live: [ASHA Voices: How COVID-19 is Changing Our Work Lives](https://blog.asha.org/2020/03/26/asha-voices-how-covid-19-is-changing-our-work-lives/)
- ASHA Leader Live: [5 Steps to Get Started in Telepractice](https://blog.asha.org/2020/03/18/5-few-steps-to-get-started-in-telepractice/)
- IDA: [Discounted Membership and Access to Video Library During COVID-19 Pandemic](https://dyslexiaida.org/helpful-resources-during-difficult-times/)
- IDA: [Helpful Resources During Difficult Times (fact sheets)](https://dyslexiaida.org/ida-offering-discounted-membership-rates-during-covid-19-pandemic/)
- The SLP Solution: [Crash Course in Teletherapy for Speech-Language Professionals (video)](https://www.slpsolution.com/crash-course-in-teletherapy-for-speech-language-professionals/)
- Bookshare: [Free online library that offers access to over 800,000 ebooks in easy-to-read formats for students with dyslexia and other reading barriers](https://www.bookshare.org/cms/help-center/learning-center/school-closure)
- National Student Speech Language Hearing Association: [COVID-19: Guidance for Graduate Student Clinicians and Clinical Fellows](https://blog.nsslha.org/2020/03/31/covid-19-guidance-for-graduate-student-clinicians-and-clinical-fellows/)
- Understood: [Online Assignments: Best Practices for Teachers to Use With Students](https://www.understood.org/en/school-learning/for-educators/partnering-with-families/online-assignments-best-practices)
- Edutopia: [Teaching Through a Pandemic: A Mindset for This Moment](https://www.edutopia.org/article/teaching-through-pandemic-mindset-moment)
- Psychology Today: [How to Talk to Kids and Teens About the Coronavirus](https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/smart-parenting-smarter-kids/202003/how-talk-kids-and-teens-about-the-coronavirus)
- KQED Mind/Shift: [14 Tips For Helping Students With Limited Internet Have Distance Learning](https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/55608/14-tips-for-helping-students-with-limited-internet-have-distance-learning)
- Understood: [Providing Speech Teletherapy: How I’m Getting Ready](https://www.understood.org/en/school-learning/for-educators/empathy/providing-speech-teletherapy-how-im-getting-ready)

## Now Available!

Reliably administer TILLS virtually with the newly published Tele-TILLS.

[Access Tele-TILLS](https://products.brookespublishing.com/Test-of-Integrated-Language-and-Literacy-Skills-for-Telepractice-Tele-TILLS-P1239.aspx)

## Professional Development Webinars

Now’s a great time for you to pick up a new strategy, dive deep into a topic relevant to your work, and (in some cases) earn a CTE certificate. Here are some of our most popular webinars.

**Speech to Print: Language Essentials for Teaching Reading**

Louisa Moats, Ed.D.

[Watch here »](https://home.edweb.net/webinar/inclusiveeducation20200331/)

**Strategies for Encouraging Reading Readiness in Young Children**

Howard Goldstein, Ph.D., CCC-SLP & Elizabeth Spencer Kelley, Ph.D., CCC-SLP

[Watch here »](https://brookespublishing.com/resource-library/strategies-encouraging-reading-readiness-young-children/)

**Identify Dyslexia Using TILLS**

Nickola Nelson, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, BCS-CL

[Watch here »](https://brookespublishing.com/resource-library/identify-dyslexia-using-tills/)

**Using the TILLS Practice Kit to Support Your Instruction in Language/Literacy Assessment**

Michele A. Anderson, Ph.D., CCC-SLP

[Watch here »](https://brookespublishing.com/resource-library/using-tills-practice-kit-support-instruction-languageliteracy-assessment/)

**Teaching Students with Literacy Problems—Including Dyslexia**

Nickola Nelson, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, BCS-CL

[Watch here »](https://home.edweb.net/webinar/teaching-students-literacy-problems-including-dyslexia/)

**Other TILLS webinars on demand**

- How to get the most out of TILLS
- How to Screen for Language/Literacy Disorders—Including Dyslexia—with the SLS
- Using the TILLS Practice Kit to Support Your Instruction in Language/Literacy Assessment
- …and many more!

[Get access »](https://tillstest.com/watch-a-tills-webinar/)

**From IDA: Free Webinar Series**

[Watch here »](https://dyslexiaida.org/ida-providing-free-webinar-series-begins-4-13/)

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