Kansas City, MO November, 2026
Open — seats available Register Advanced · 2 days live
Extend The Connection
Mentored progression into advanced practice.
Pricing on request ASHA CEUs available 2 days live
2 -day intensive
of learning
of learning
At a glance ASHA CEUs available proportional to the 2-day course hours Level: Advanced 2 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
Theory comes home on video. Time together is hands-on.
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
- Two days of small-group, mentored instruction
- ASHA CEUs, documented and submitted for you
- Practice-growth planning materials
- Lunch and refreshments both days
- Continued access to the graduate community
Prerequisites
Completion of Make The Connection. Designed as your next step toward advanced practice.
CEU credit
ASHA CEUs available proportional to the 2-day course hours. Advanced level, Professional area.
Who it's for
Make The Connection graduates ready for mentored progression into advanced, independent practice.
Upcoming dates
Pick your city
Every cohort, with live seat status. Your Register button carries your choice straight to the form.
Kansas City: Union Station–area hotel with on-site labs and a reserved room block. Fly into Kansas City International (MCI).
Your instructors
Taught by
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.
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.
Register
Register for Extend The Connection
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- Ask about a payment plan — many attendees split tuition into installments.
- Flexible cancellation — full refund minus $500 fee up to 30 days out.
- Questions? hello@function-focus.com — answered within a day.
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