Apraxia speech therapy

How to use sound effects, exclamatory words and symbolic sounds in speech therapy with late talkers and with children with apraxia of speech. Why we use symbolic sounds and exclamatory words and activities to incorporate them into your speech therapy activities.

Fresh speech and language activities and ideas for the busy Speech Language Pathologist

Our Apraxia & Articulation Cards includes print cards for practicing CVCV, CVCVCV, and CVCVCVCV words.These flashcards were designed to support your therapy plans for children with motor speech disorders such as Childhood Apraxia of Speech and articulation. Includes our prompting/cuing hierarchy for ways to support acquisition. Choose 7-10 words to target with the individual. Incorporate a “Motor Speech” approach using chosen targets.

Apraxia is when a child has difficulty making accurate movements when speaking. The brain struggles to develop plans for speech movement. Speech muscles don't perform normally because the brain struggles to direct or coordinate the movements. Read about 5 signs and symptoms of apraxia of speech in our blog post!

Is there such a thing as curriculum for teaching a child with apraxia of speech?

I recently attended the Colorado Speech, Language and Hearing Association Spring Conference and the speaker gave me a lot to think about. At the conference, Christina Gildersleeve-Neumann, Ph.D., from Portland State University discussed current theories of phonological development and various treatment approaches. What she said made a lot of sense and affirmed the approach I take in therapy for the young nonverbal child. It is very risky to diagnosis a young nonverbal child with childhood…

While it can be tempting to segment words in speech therapy, this may not be the best approach with students with childhood apraxia of speech. Apraxia therapy is all about movement and children with childhood apraxia of speech have difficulty moving from one sound to the next. So how do we work on helping children produce all the sounds in a word without segmenting? What strategies can SLPs use? Learn my favorite alternatives to segmenting and how to use them in Apraxia therapy here.

SLPs, do you have a client with Childhood Apraxia of Speech or Suspected Childhood Apraxia of Speech? Do you know how to use word repetition in a way that best benefits children with CAS? While word repetition is an important part of language based therapy and apraxia therapy, the approach is very different. Here you will learn how to best use word repetition in apraxia therapy and how it differs from strategies used in language based therapy.

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