Teletherapy: Tips to Keep Young Children Engaged

With the unpredictability of the next few months, what we do know is we will need to be creative in finding ways to continue services for young children. Teletherapy has quickly become a hot topic. But, what about our younger population that rely on a hands-on, close contact, wiggly therapy approach? This course will provide therapists with ideas for keeping young children engaged remotely. We will discuss how to continue a play-based approach, empowering and partnering with caregivers, fun therapy ideas to retain attention, ways we can change it up and how our prep may look different than in the therapy room. Join me as we dive into the unknown.

Presenters

Jennie Bjorem
M.A. CCC-SLP
Jennie received her bachelor’s degree in Communication Sciences and Disorders from Saint Louis University and graduated from Truman State University with her master’s degree in Communication Sciences and Disorders in May 1999. She has a great understanding from a parent perspective as she has a young child with special needs. She is the owner of Children’s Therapy Services in Leawood, Kansas. Jennie’s area of expertise is in early intervention birth through 5, parent education and childhood apraxia of speech. She currently provides 22 speech therapy sessions a week to children with CAS. Jennie is recognized for her advanced training and expertise in Childhood Apraxia of Speech by Apraxia Kids. She presented at the Apraxia Kids national conference, had over 75 hours of CAS training in 2018 and was awarded the ASHA ACE Award for Continuing Education. Jennie travels the country speaking on the topic of CAS in her spare time. Jennie is the creator of the Bjorem Speech Sound Cues for acquisition of speech and literacy.

Learning Objectives

Participants will be able to discuss ways to partner with caregivers to help support therapy for young children remotely.
Participants will be able to use different play-based activities via Teletherapy to help keep young children engaged.
Participants will be able to describe how preparation for remote therapy impact the success of the session as well as list tools to be prepared.

Agenda

15 minutes	Preparation and Parent Participation
15 minutes	Play-Based Ideas
15 minutes	Changing it up - where we need to get creative
10 minutes	Apps and Other Tools
5 minutes	Questions

Disclosures

Speakers - Financial	Jennie is the owner of Bjorem Speech Publications and receives a salary from her sales on her website and through TPT.
Speakers - Nonfinancial	Jennie has no has no non-financial relationships related to the content of course to disclose.
Course - Content	This presentation will demonstrate use of the Bjorem Speech Sound Cues as examples in the teletherapy (but any cue can be used and will be stated in the presentation).
Course - Financial Support & In Kind	This webinar was funded by our sponsors, SLP Toolkit, The Informed SLP, and Bjorem Speech Publications. Sponsors are not responsible for the content of this course nor does brIQht ideas endorse their products or services.We would also like to thank the presenter(s) of this course who have provided their speaking services at no charge.

ASHA

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

Teletherapy: Tips to Keep Young Children Engaged