Speech Dude Tells All: Engaging Activities for Older Students of All Abilities

WEBINAR / COURSE DETAILS

Have you noticed your students’ engagement levels dropping? Keeping kids motivated to participate in their sessions has been a huge challenge for many therapists throughout this pandemic. Now more than ever, we need fun, motivating and engaging activities for our students. And we could all use a bit of humor in our lives to get us through these tough times. In this webinar, high school speech-language pathologist, Chris Wenger, better known on social media as “Speech Dude”, will share his unique ways to motivate and engage older students of all abilities. You will walk away inspired, with a ton of new ideas that will grab your students’ attention and make them eager to learn. Finding and preparing for fun activities doesn’t have to be so hard. If you feel like you’re spending more time prepping for sessions than providing therapy, then wait to see what Speech Dude has in store for you. He will be giving away several of his brand new, low-prep activities that you can use immediately in your therapy…...for free baby! So, are you ready to have some fun, learn some amazing new ideas and walk away with Speech Dude’s free activities? Then what in the world are you waiting for... register right now!

Speech Dude Tells All: Engaging Activities for Older Students of All Abilities

OFFERINGS

PRESENTER(S)

Chris Wenger

CCC-SLP

Chris Wenger is an enthusiastic school-based SLP and nationally-acclaimed presenter who loves to share his knowledge about current trends in technology and practical ways to infuse it into the school setting for older students. Chris’s experience in using confidence building strategies in his own speech therapy sessions has provided him a depth of knowledge for making effective connections between self-confidence and education. Chris is the author of Speech Language Technologists: What’s New in Technology to Save Time and Accelerate Therapy Outcomes, an extensive resource handbook. Chris is better known on social media as "Speech Dude." A prominent thought leader in the field of education, Chris motivates and entertains fellow clinicians through his humorous and inspiring posts and videos. You will walk away from Chris’s lively webinar with new ideas that will help foster student engagement and motivation from a variety of innovative therapy activities.

Disclosures

Speakers - Financial

Chris receives a salary from Chaffey Joint Union High School District and Wings Speech and Language Center. He earns revenue as a national speaker for Bureau of Education and Research. He receives compensation for his Boom Learning store and Teachers Pay Teachers materials.

Speakers - Nonfinancial

Chris is the CSHA Treasurer in California. He is the co-chair of the WESELPA SLP Council. He is part of the West End SELPA Special Education Technology Team (SETTS).

Course - Content

Materials that are available for purchase on Chris Wenger's Boom Learning and Teachers Pay Teachers store may be mentioned during the course of this presentation.

Course - Financial Support & In Kind

This webinar was funded by our sponsors, SLP Toolkit and SLP Now. We would also like to thank the presenter of this course who has provided his speaking services at no charge.

As a result of this activity, participants will be able to...

Describe new ideas to increase engagement for older students.
Identify 3 tech tools that can be used to motivate their students.
Explain the steps to maintain student motivation when engagement levels have dropped.

Agenda

5 mins	Introduction
15 mins	Increasing motivation
30 mins	Activities to level up engagement
10 mins	Closing and Q&A

Participation and completion requirements

Participants must provide course feedback and pass a course exam with a score of 80% or higher in order to receive a certificate of completion for certification maintenance hours (CMHs). Additionally, participants must complete a final opt in step for your completion to be submitted to the ASHA Continuing Education Board.

ASHA CEUs are awarded by the ASHA Continuing Education Board once eligibility requirements are met. The exam, course evaluation, and CE paperwork for this course must be completed by the date outlined for the course offering. If you do not correctly and completely finish all steps by the deadline, you will not be eligible to receive ASHA CEUs for this course. If you have questions about this process, email us at hello@bethebrightest.com.

To read more about CMHs vs. ASHA CEUs, click here.

This course is part of the SLP Summit conference