5 WAYS TO INSPIRE AND MOTIVATE CHILDREN WITH ARTICULATION DISORDERS

Course overview

Have you ever thought that YOU want your speech-kids to improve more than THEY do? In this information-packed one-hour course, we'll delve into techniques and strategies we can do to turn this around. Basically, there has to be emotional buy-in (on the kids part), especially if we want them to follow-through on their speech homework. We'll cover motivational techniques, including how to do leverage strategies, how to use encouragement words rather than just praise words, and one critical component you'll always want to include in your therapy.... Objective Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to: Describe, compare, and contrast intrinsic motivators and extrinsic motivators List and briefly explain the two leverage questions that generates emotional buy-in List several ¿Praise¿ words and list several ¿Encouragement¿ words to use in therapy Itemize the elements that create a beneficial Reinforcement System Additional Information This course is offered for 0.1 ASHA CEUs (Intermediate Level, Professional area) Course Timeline: 15 minutes: Discuss and demonstrate intrinsic motivators and extrinsic motivators 15 minutes: Discuss and demonstrate the concept of Leverage and how to generate it via questions and video 15 minutes: Discuss and demonstrate ¿Praise¿ words and ¿Encouragement¿ words and why the latter is more effective 15 minutes: Discuss and demonstrate the qualities of a beneficial Reinforcement System