Who’s Down with OPP? Outcomes & Positive Progress Using Curriculum-Based Therapy

Did you know the average speech student spends only 3% of their school week with the SLP? This is why it’s advantageous for SLPs to use classroom created content to enhance their speech and language goals. Nobody wants to feel like an exhausted pigeon who spends their entire day creating lesson plans anyway! You may not realize how much content is available at our fingertips...and the best part is, it’s free. Join us for this presentation where high school SLP Chris Wenger, widely known on social media as “Speech Dude”, will discuss how to effectively pair your speech and language goals with curriculum-relevant activities for older students. Plus, you’ll learn cutting-edge technology tools that provide endless opportunities for you to target their goals with classroom content. Are you ready to tap into what teachers have already created and use your amazing SLP skills to make your sessions meaningful for students? If so, then just wait to see what this presentation has in store for you!

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

Describe three effective strategies to enhance a student’s communication skills using curriculum-relevant therapy
Discuss three practical ways to add speech and language goals to classroom content in order to support the needs of older students
Identify three resources to easily search for no print, no prep curriculum-based activities that are appropriate for older students

Agenda

5 minutes	Introduction
15 minutes	The why behind Curriculum-Relevant Therapy
30 minutes	Activities to support Curriculum-Relevant Therapy
10 minutes	Wrap up

Disclosures

Speakers - Financial	Chris Wenger represents the product Dynamic Assessment of Social Emotional Learning and recieves compensation for Boom Learning store and Teachers Pay Teachers. Chris Wenger is receiving an honorarium for leading this workshop.
Speakers - Nonfinancial	Chris Wenger has no relevant non-financial relationship to disclose. Chris Wenger is the CoChair of WESELPA SLP Council and works with West End SELPA: Special Education Technology Team (SETTS).
Course - Content	Chris Wenger has no relevant course content information to disclose.
Course - Financial Support & In Kind	This course is sponsored by SLP Toolkit.

ASHA

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

Who’s Down with OPP? Outcomes & Positive Progress Using Curriculum-Based Therapy