5 Evidence-Based Strategies for Effective Vocabulary Intervention

In this course, participants will learn how to implement vocabulary intervention, with a focus on facilitating meaningful and functional outcomes for our students. Participants will be presented with strategies to gather relevant vocabulary targets from the curriculum and effectively use these targets in therapy. Participants will review the relevant evidence and will be provided with practical demonstrations of how to implement evidence-based strategies when targeting vocabulary goals.

Presenters

Marisha McGrorty
M.S. CCC-SLP
Marisha earned her Master's degree in Speech-Language Pathology from the University of Washington. She has worked as a school-based SLP and shares therapy ideas and resources on her blog (SLP Now). Marisha also developed a membership for SLPs that includes digital tools and resources to streamline evidence-based therapy.

Learning Objectives

List three benefits of using vocabulary from the curriculum in therapy
Identify three strategies to identify curriculum-based vocabulary targets to use in therapy
Describe three evidence-based strategies that can be used to target students' individualized vocabulary goals

Agenda

5 minutes	Why target vocabulary?
5 minutes	A framework for being therapeutic in context
5 minutes	How to select treatment targets
35 minutes	Review of five evidence-based strategies when targeting vocabulary goals (including practical demonstrations for a variety of ages)
5 minutes	How to maintain student engagement
5 minutes	Q & A

Disclosures

Content Disclosure	This presentation will focus primarily on materials from the SLP Now software application and will not include a comprehensive review of all possible materials.
Financial Disclosure	This webinar was funded by our sponsors, SLP Toolkit and SLP Now. Sponsors are not responsible for the content of this course nor does brIQht ideas endorse their products or services.
In-Kind Disclosure	brIQht ideas would like to thank the presenter of this course who has provided her speaking services at no charge.

ASHA

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

5 Evidence-Based Strategies for Effective Vocabulary Intervention