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Motivation often declines as children reach adolescence. Poor motivation inhibits participation and engagement in language-based interventions. The purpose of this presentation is to demonstrate how intervention can be designed to increase client motivation to participate in therapy while improving language-based literacy skills. This session presents motivation and behavior change techniques based on self-determination theory. It also includes examples of how to integrate these techniques into interventions with adolescent clients to satisfy their need for autonomy, relatedness, and competence while simultaneously addressing language-based literacy deficits.

This course is a recorded session from the 2022 ASHA Convention Virtual Library (session 2116V).

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Learning Outcomes
You will be able to:

• Identify the three psychological needs that need to be satisfied for individuals to feel motivated to change and regulate their behaviors according to self-determination theory
• Describe ways in which satisfying these psychological needs promotes clients' intrinsic motivation
• Apply motivation and behavior change techniques in your own interventions

Presenter Information

Ginger Collins, PhD, CCC-SLP, is an Associate Professor at the University of Montana in the School of Speech, Language, Hearing, and Occupational Sciences. Dr. Collins’ research focuses on school-based interprofessional collaborative practices to promote language-literacy success and prevent academic failure, with an emphasis on morphology, postsecondary transition planning, and effective pedagogy in communication sciences and disorders.

Financial Disclosures:

• Full-time faculty member at the University of Montana

Nonfinancial Disclosures:

• None

Assessment Type

Self-assessment—Think about what you learned and report on the Completion Form how you will use your new knowledge.

To earn continuing education credit, you must complete the learning assessment by the end date below.

Program History and CE Information

Content origination date: November 2022
End date: April 18, 2029

This course is offered for 0.05 ASHA CEUs (Introductory level, Professional area).