Cutting-Edge Tech Tools for the Middle and High School SLP

Have you noticed your students’ engagement levels continue to drop? Keeping teens motivated to participate in their sessions has been a big challenge for many therapists. In this presentation high school speech-language pathologist, Chris Wenger, will share cutting-edge tech tools that you can use immediately in your sessions to accelerate therapy outcomes. You will walk away inspired, with a ton of new ideas that can easily be differentiated to meet the unique needs of all learners. that will grab your students’ attention and make them eager to learn. Finding and preparing fun activities doesn’t have to be so hard. If you feel like you’re spending more time prepping than providing therapy, then wait to see what this presentation has in store for you!

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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

Describe three effective strategies to meet the needs of middle and high school students on IEPs.
Discuss three practical ways to use technology in order to support the needs of students with social and emotional learning needs.
Identify three resources to easily search for no print, no prep lessons that are appropriate for older students.

Agenda

5 minutes	Introduction
20 minutes	Hands-On Activities
20 minutes	Engagement Slides
10 minutes	Social Video Clips / Activities
5 minutes	Wrap Up

Disclosures

Speakers - Financial	Chris receives a salary from Chaffey Joint Union High School District and Wings Speech and Language Center. He is a paid national speaker for Bureau of Education and Research. Chris receives compensation for his Boom Learning & TpT stores. Chris is received compensation for this presentation/course.
Speakers - Nonfinancial	Chris is the CSHA State Secretary-Treasurer. He also serves as chair on the WESELPA SLP Council.
Course - Financial Support & In Kind	This webinar was funded by our sponsor, SLP Toolkit.

ASHA

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