Getting started in teletherapy

If you're like me, you've been working in a brick and mortar setting your entire career and are now being asked to do teletherapy with no knowledge of how to do so. Luckily, we have a lot of talented SLPs and educators out there who have been doing teletherapy for a while now and are putting together some awesome resources to help the rest of us out! Here is a compilation of some of the helpful resources that I have found.

Teletherapy

This blog post from Stacy Crouse contains a TON of resources for getting started with teletherapy including information on preparing for teletherapy, must haves for teletherapy, resources for annotating PDFs, screen share/mouse control, ideas for specific goals/groups, FREE website activities, resources for parents, Facebook groups, and much MORE!

Boom Cards

New to Boom Cards? Here are some things you need to know:

Boom Cards live in the cloud and cannot be printed.
You can download the Boom Learning App for free on Androids, iPads, iPhones, and Kindle Fires or play on most modern browsers
You will have to open a Boom Learning account in order to use the cards. If you are a new customer, you will receive a FREE 90 day trial of their premium account. When your trial ends, you can choose to renew the premium account (which has advanced features including assignment tools and individual and whole class performance tracking) or move to a FREE account. You can upgrade, downgrade, or cancel at any time. Free accounts use purchased Boom Cards with Fast Play pins.

This blog post from Sweet Home Speech includes a description of Boom Cards, where to purchase Boom Cards, how to find your decks after your purchase, how to use the cards with students, and how to assign/send decks to your students.

This video from the BVG SLP discusses how to assign your purchased Boom Cards to your students.

This TpT product from Speech Your Mind contains instructions for parents to log into Boom Learning.

This blog post/video from the BVG SLP discusses how to use Boom Cards on a teletherapy platform.

Are you ready to try out Boom Cards? Check out my FREE Ninja Themed Directions Boom Cards OR my Animal Themed Boom Card Bundle that contains 6 decks to target temporal & sequential directions, spatial directions, quantitative directions, WH questions, and listening comprehension!

Google

This video series by Control Alt Achieve provides several tutorials for using Google Meet including how to start a meeting, how to invite people to meetings, how to join a meeting, how to record, how to keep students from starting or recording a meet, how to see students when presenting a screen, and MORE.

This YouTube video from Speech is Beautiful covers all of the features of Google Meet.

This YouTube video from Speech is Beautiful walks you through setting up a Google Classroom.

Zoom

This YouTube video from Speech is Beautiful walks you through three lessons plus a whiteboard tutorial using the Zoom platform.

This YouTube video from Speech is Beautiful covers the Zoom control panel, how to share the whiteboard, how to use the whiteboard in your sessions, how to share websites, and how to share an interactive PDF!