Participants will have the opportunity to fill their instructional toolkit with an exciting array of innovative technologies that can easily be integrated into the classroom, bringing excitement to the learning process for students with special needs and other diverse learners. Participants will be provided with ideas for integrating these tools into Common Core instruction so that student’s learning experience is truly transformed.

1. It’s All About Engagement!!!
By Chris Wenger CCC-SLP

2. SandTimer
•Increases on-task behavior
•On screen or on one desk
•Keeps teacher on schedule
•Focuses ADHD students
For free online timers, visit
http://www.online-stopwatch.com/
Chrome extensions:
-Task Time
-Dayboard

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. • Dozens of templates targeting
different areas of curriculum
• Add images/audio/hyperlinks
• Organize thoughts and topics
for writing
• Understand cause + effect
• Helps plan, organize and build
thinking skills
• Can export into writing app
(Pages)
Custom
Boards

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

6. Adobe Acrobat Reader:
App
• Annotate on PDFs: sticky notes and
drawing tools
• Use highlights to bring in attention
• Markup any screenshot (great to
app smash)
• Scan: Use device camera to
capture ANYTHING (e.g.
whiteboard, form, picture, note
• Easy to export (Dropbox, iCloud,
Google Drive)

7. • 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)
• *Offers Apple TV app w/ new generation

8. 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
• The list is too long!!!

9. Kahoot
Easy display
Records video AND audio
Insert your own backgrounds and
pictures

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

11. Twitter: @speechdude
Email: christopher.wenger@cjuhsd.net
www.speechdude.com