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

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!

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

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.

ASHA

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