Game-Changing Tech Tools for Teenagers with Social-Emotional Learning Deficits

If you’re looking for new, highly effective ways to accelerate the impact of your teletherapy interventions for middle and high school students, then this is a webinar you won’t want to miss. This course will provide participants with timesaving ideas for using cutting-edge technology that will increase student motivation and accelerate therapy outcomes. Experienced speech-language pathologist and nationally-acclaimed technology specialist, Chris Wenger, will share innovative ways to effectively utilize technology in your teletherapy sessions. Whether you are just starting to make use of technology in your therapy program or have many years of experience doing so, you will walk away with dozens of timesaving tools to use in your online speech therapy sessions.

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Presenters

Chris Wenger
CCC-SLP
Chris Wenger is an enthusiastic school-based SLP and nationally-acclaimed presenter who loves to share his knowledge about technology and practical ways to infuse it into the SLP practice for middle and high school students. Chris’ extensive experience in using technology in his own speech therapy sessions has provided him a depth of knowledge for making effective connections between technology and speech pathology. Chris is the author of "Speech Language Technologists: What’s New in Technology to Save Time and Accelerate Therapy Outcomes", an extensive resource handbook. He has a passion for creating and sharing resources to make therapy for middle and high school students engaging and more effective.

Learning Objectives

List three engaging digital tools that target middle and high school students via teletherapy with a wide range of mild to severely impaired students
Discuss how to create more engaging lessons for middle and high school students using game-changing tech tools including interactive iPad apps, YouTube and other web-based resources
Describe how to easily search for no preparation, no print materials online for older students

Agenda

5 minutes	Introduction
15 minutes	Targeting a variety of vocabulary development and social emotional tools using iPad apps
15 minutes	Targeting multiple areas of language development, such as categories, compare/contrast, figurative language and social emotional learning using interactive websites
15 minutes	How to search for premade digital lessons without having to print materials
5 minutes	How to create your own content to best meet a student’s needs
5 minutes	Q&A / wrap-up

Disclosures

Speakers - Financial	Chris receives compensation for BoomLearning and TpT store. Chris is being compensated for this presentation by brIQht ideas.
Speakers - Nonfinancial	Chris is the director of the California Speech and Hearing Association District 10 and is currently the county chair for West End SELPA SLP Council. Chris travels as a national speaker for the Bureau of Education and Research (BER).

ASHA

This course is offered for 0.1 ASHA CEUs, Intermediate level, Professional Area, Professional Area