Like many adults, many kids are attached to their technology. While I’m not advocating that you encourage your students to text obsessively and spend hours on their portable devices, I do believe that it can be an effective way of getting them to make a conscious effort to monitor their speech in situations OUTSIDE the therapy setting. You would be amazed at the level of interest students take in getting a school-based assignment completed when it involves using their own personal devices!!
The following activities were created to help motivate older students to improve generalization of speech carryover and achieve their final goal of dismissal from the program. Remember to tell your students that they need to be mature and appropriate when carrying out this assignment. It will hopefully teach responsibility as well as help them realize that their device can be used as an important learning tool!