webinars
Speech & Language Developmental Milestones
Numerous research studies indicate the importance of early identification and treatment of speech-language disorders as such yields better outcomes in the overall communication skills of children. Participants will be able to identify typical versus atypical speech, language, and hearing development in children aged birth to 5-years-old. This practical course will prepare participants for recognizing when children are not attaining developmental milestones in the areas of speech, language, and hearing.
Let's Talk: Technology Tools for Students with Speech Delays
Learn about technology tools for PreK-5 students with expressive language delays. Examine the prevalence of speech delays, signs to look for, seeking assistance, and technology tools that can help. Explore a variety of interactive technology devices, Augmented Reality, and apps that inspire students to do the talking. All technology skill levels are encouraged to attend.
Tech Talk for Tots: Enhancing Communication in Young Children
Learn about enhancing overall communicative abilities in young children through the effective incorporation of technological tools in everyday activities. This interactive course will allow you hands-on experience with a variety of interactive technology devices, Augmented Reality, and apps that encourage receptive and expressive language development in PreK-5 students. All technology skill levels are encouraged to attend.
Attention Building Tech Tools You Can Use Today!
Do you have a child/student who experiences difficulty paying attention in class, focusing on the lesson, raising their hand to answer questions, or visibly engaging in seat work? If so, then your student may be demonstrating a deficit in the executive skill of sustained attention. Sustained attention provides the capacity to maintain attention to a situation or task in spite of distractibility, fatigue, or boredom. It is a critical skill for doing well in school.
Parents and teachers play an integral role in being able to address deficits relating to sustained attention in students. Learn how to enhance sustained attention through tools like My Class Schedule, Studious, Remember the Milk, GoClock, and more!
Digitally Supporting Diverse Learners
Technology can enhance cognitive, communicative, and socio-emotional development in students with diverse needs. In this session, learn how to use apps to address expressive communication, verbal reasoning, social interactions, executive function skills, safety awareness, escape, and more! This session will deliver research-based practical information about tech tools that assist students with cognitive, communicative, and socio-emotional differences. Apps that will be discussed include: Tell About This, My Play Home, Time 2: Beat Procrastination, and Ido. Participants will leave with information that they can immediately use in their schools and districts.
Digital Storytelling on the iPad
Discover and explore technological applications that can be used for digital storytelling with primary and secondary grade level students. Digital storytelling helps students with time management, problem-solving, and communication skills. Digital stories contain some mixture of computer-based images, text, recorded audio narration, video clips, and/or music. All technology skill levels are encouraged to attend.
Engaging Clients with Augmented Reality
Augmented reality (AR) is a type of virtual reality that aims to duplicate the world's environment on a digital device, such as an iPad. AR applications allow users enhanced interactions with their environments by transforming real-life objects into computer-generated 3-D images. This fun and interactive class will allow participants to explore AR flashcards, Zoo AR, LEGO connect, Earth AR, Our Discovery Island: Phonic Tricksters, and so much more!
Tech Tools: Dyslexia - the Hidden Superpower
1 in 5 students have a hidden superpower called Dyslexia! Reading should not be their kryptonite; they need our H-E-L-P! Technology tools can be as awesome of a sidekick as “Robin” is for “Batman”. Come learn about and experiment with Microsoft’s Immersive Reader, Text-to-Speech, Learning Ally, Speech-to-Text, an OCR pen and many other emerging tools that can assist dyslexic students in accessing written text. Additionally, participate in a mission (brief simulation) of what it is like to be dyslexic. Employ technology to increase students’ confidence to become the superheroes they are!
There’s an App For That? Enhancing Executive Function with Apps
Executive functions are essential life-long skills that we begin to develop as children through our intrapersonal and interpersonal interactions. Executive functions consist of working memory, planning and prioritization, organization, time management, metacognition, response inhibition, emotional control, sustained attention, task initiation, goal directed persistence, and mental flexibility.
Executive function impairments may express themselves in inattention, incompletion of assignments in a timely manner, difficulty following multi-step directions, inappropriate social behavior(s), anti-social behavior, inability to foresee consequences, recalling information, or getting started on a task.
This session will provide digital solutions for enhancing executive function skills in students across all age ranges.
Reading for Meaning with Read Naturally Live
Learn how Read Naturally Live uses motivational curriculum on a powerful web technology platform that supports fluency, vocabulary, comprehension, and phonics for struggling readers. This interactive program provides guidance to primary and secondary grade level students through visual and auditory cues, and allows caregivers, teachers, and speech-language pathologists the ability to track the progress of students. All technology skill levels are encouraged to attend.
Introduction to Executive Function Skills
Discover how children and adolescents with diagnoses of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, learning disabilities, and problems in social, emotional, and behavioral functioning, often display impairments in their use of executive functions. Children may display difficulties in getting started on tasks, sustaining attention and effort levels, following multi-step directions, staying organized, and managing time effectively. Learn about how executive functioning difficulties are often undiagnosed in many children, but their problems are usually identifiable through school.
Enhancing Executive Skills Through Mindfulness
Mental health disorders in children are a serious epidemic impacting approximately 4.5 children in the United States. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, disorders are characterized by serious changes in the way children typically learn, behave, or handle their emotions, causing distress and problems through the day. Considerably, children spend a significant portion of their day in school.
In response, parents and teachers have the opportunity to address these given weaknesses by teaching mindfulness techniques to enhance the executive function skills of students presenting with deficits in attention, impulse control, working memory, cognitive flexibility, and emotional regulation. Attendees will be introduced to apps, such as, Stress Tolerance Tools, Take a Chill, SimplyNoise, and more!
Creating your Personal Learning Network
Personal learning networks (PLNs) offer parents, caregivers, educators, and therapists the opportunity to develop a customized network supporting meaningful and relevant learning for users. PLNs can be a rich source of learning that fosters connections that become a part of personal or professional development. This course will allow participants to develop their own PLNs through exploration of Twitter, AllMyFaves, Education Technology & Media, plus more.