2116V - Motivating Adolescents to Participate in Literacy Intervention: A Case Example From Telepractice

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. Motivation and behavior change techniques (Teixeira, 2020) based on self-determination theory will be presented, as will 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.