Updated technology tools for the speech-language pathologist.

1. Speech-Language Pathologists:
What’s NEW in Technology to
Save Time and Accelerate
Therapy Outcomes
By Chris Wenger CCC-CLP
Instagram @speechdude

2. Utilize the BEST online
resources to support your IEP
goals

3. • Daily News in all subject areas
• Build reading comprehension
• Every article at 5 reading levels
• High interest topics
• Target variety of speech/language skills

4. • Easily target a variety of IEP goals, including
categorization, compare/contrast, figurative
language, inference, and much more.
• Social/emotional learning
• Question sets included (easy to track for IEP goals)
• Easily select by lexile, grade level, or the type of text

5. • Instant access to 15k books (FREE!)
• Read anytime, any device
• High quality, visually stimulating
• High Interest, Low Readability (easy to target students
interests)
• Works great w/ AAC users (target CORE vocab)

6. ClassHook
● Hook your students in with short
video clips. Highly engaging!
● Increase student retention to
concepts
● High interest TV shows and movies to
keep therapy fun!
● Eliminates having to spend hours
searching YouTube

7. ● FREE featured movie every day
● Ties in to educational standards
● Pull vocabulary out from context
● Quiz provided to target
comprehension
● Activity/worksheet that can be
aligned w/ speech goals.
● Keeps therapy fresh and fun!

8. • Discover (other lessons)
• Customize
• Turns passive content into active content
• Track comprehension
• Time-embedded activities

10. Kahoot Interactive + engaging
Quizzes, discussions and surveys
Tailor to own needs
Insert your own videos and pictures
Any device with internet (computer, tablet, phone,
laptop)
Don’t need login, just pin
Kids create own Kahoot

11. ● FREE!!!!
● Student-paced: great for small therapy groups
● BYOD: Any device!
● Thousands of public quizzes: Search functional
vocabulary, compare/contrast, figurative lang., etc.
● Easy to collect data/track for IEP goals.
● Great to show progress at IEP meetings.

12. Active Learning

13. PearDeck
● Free version
● Target vocabulary goals with Flashcard Factory
● Great for small groups (emphasizes higher-order
thinking): target pragmatic goals
● Fosters discussions w/ a variety of activities
● Ties in to Google Slides (and already made Powerpoint
presentations)

14. How do we decide which ones are best? Refer to page 22 in resource handbook.

15. • Digital flashcards!
• Easy to use and create
sets
• Pre-made flashcards
available (less
planning!)
• Variety of study skills
and games to engage
all

16. • Board and activity creator
• 11k built in symbols
• 126 templates
(Devices/switches,
worksheets/labels, activities,
Visual schedules
• Very easy to use (air print, share
templates)
Custom Boards

17. • 15k built in symbols
• Easy text/keyboard mode
• Be Social! Share on
Twitter/Facebook/Email
• Word Prediction
• Instant Search
• No active internet
connection required

18. Strip Designer
• Comic strip templates
• Add photos, drawings,
balloons
• Export to pdf
• Target several
speech/language needs

19. Bitsboard
• Create your own lessons
EASILY!!!
• Track student progress
• Dozens of mini games
• Download thousands of
lessons for free
• Targets a wide variety of
speech/language needs
• Access for ALL (*even
switch accessible)

20. Pic Collage
• Create multimedia collages
• Visually summarize
• Associations
• Expansion of categories
• Engagement!!
• User-friendly

21. Voice Dream Reader
• Advanced text-to-speech
• Reads all PDF and word
docs…SHUT UP!
• It’s integrated with
Bookshare, Dropbox, etc.
• Synchronized word and line
highlighting
• Change voice and reading
speed

22. CO:Writer
• Topic based dictionary
• Grammar support
• Built-in text to speech
• Aids with
phonetic/inventive
spelling, grammar, and
topic-related vocabulary
Example:
Before - The blk jargon fluw
over
the lfnt.
After: The black dragon flew
over the elephant.

23. Google Drive
Free!
Cloud Storage (eliminate need
for USB thumb drive)
Google Docs
Google Photos
Google Search

25. Screen Castify
● Google Extension (Used in Google Chrome browser)
● Records screen and allows students to open up creativity
● Hidden talents of expressive language flow naturally
● Annotation tools
● Save to your cloud storage such as Google Drive, or
harddrive.
**Live demo of how it can be used.

26. christopher.wenger@cjuhsd.net
Instagram: @speechdude