AI Empowered: Innovations in Preschool Language Assessment and Intervention
This course explores integrating AI into clinical practice with preschool-aged children. Learn how AI enhances language sampling, materials creation, and intervention efficiency through practical examples. Discover specific platforms and applications with video demonstrations, plus strategies for adapting these tools across diverse clinical populations.
Presented by
Caroline Brinkert, MS CCC-SLP is a Speech-Language and Hearing Sciences clinical faculty member at Boston University where she supervises graduate students, teaches Stuttering and Related Disorders, and is the Director of BU's Center for Stuttering Therapy. She is a specialist in stuttering and related disorders and maintains a small clinical practice evaluating and treating clients across the lifespan, using holistic and stutter-affirming practices. Boston University Future of Learning AI Grant prompted the project, but did not influence discoveries in any way.
Built for you
Who this course is for
Every minute is written for working clinicians, educators, and families. You walk away with real-world tools to try with your next learner, not abstract theory.
Speech-Language Pathologists
Early Intervention Specialists
Parents & Caregivers
Pediatricians
After this course
What you’ll walk away with.
You leave with concrete skills and frameworks you can apply in your next session, classroom, or family visit, not just ideas to think about later.
Earn your CEUs
Attend the full course and pass the post-session assessment at 80% or higher. Your 0.1 ASHA CEUs are reported to ASHA when you opt in on the assessment.
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You’ll be able to
Describe at least 2 ways to use AI for assessment within various clinical populations.
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You’ll be able to
Describe at least 2 ways to use AI for intervention within various clinical populations.
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You’ll be able to
Describe 2 ways to evaluate AI performance within clinical contexts.
The full 1 hour
Your learning path.
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Introduction, overview, and terminology
10 minutes - 2
Introduction to AI tools and principals
10 minutes - 3
Comparison of use of AI tools to support assessment and intervention to more traditional methods, with video examples and discussion of metrics for evaluating AI performance
30 minutes - 4
Questions
10 minutes
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Pass the assessment
Complete the short post-course assessment with 80% or higher to confirm mastery.
CEUs reported to ASHA
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