kaufman kit? please advise...

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Hi everyone... I have a question that I hope you can help with, but

I think you'll need a little background on Hannah first. Hannah is

a young three (thirty-eight months) who was diagnosed in March with

nonverbal autism, verbal apraxia, and general apraxia. We started

an ABA program in mid-March, and once we conquered the concept of

imitation, she has just taken off! By mid June, she was starting to

make open mouth noises and signing a lot. We switched tracks with

therapy a month ago to Verbal Behavior therapy and she has switched

her signs (over one hundred) to words in just the last month. The

apraxia, however, definitely affects her ability to articulate

clearly. We are interested in using the Kaufman Kit for apraxia,

but the school is saying she is too young for it bc it breaks the

words up into sounds which is difficult for autistic kids bc of the

concept of parts/whole relationships. But, they've just started

working with Hannah and don't understand her mind. They seem to

think autism = retarded while Hannah actually borders on the

savant. We homeschool our others and she does phonics with her

kindergarten age brother and she already knows the sounds of all of

the letters, short and long vowels, blends, and about 50 sight

words. So their thinking that she won't understand that letters

have individual sounds is not right, she's already sounding out

words, and she can make sounds for letters, like T and J that she

cannot say in a word. Would the Kaufman Kit be benificial to her?

Has anyone actually used it? It's expensive enough that I don't

want to buy it " just to see " if you understand what I mean. If you

have used it, is it really better for apraxia than other

articulation programs? Thanks for your input... I appreciate it!

Laurie

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hi laurie,

I looooove the kauffman. I and my son's SLP use it. I also use it with my

client who is PDD. I also use relaxed version of ABA. He's doing well with the

kauffman words. what great about is that it will give approx of words. they

don't need to say it perfect but understandable. I'm asking my client's speech

teacher to give me more to work on.

I waiting to save some money to get a kit myself. My SLP said I should get it

since my son and my clients use it.

in short I think it would be great compliment to her ABA. you could ask her SLP

if she has the kit and just photocopy the words (or pics of the words) that is

what my slp does for me

hopes this helps

chris

rcrouchfamily <rcrouchfamily@...> wrote:

Hi everyone... I have a question that I hope you can help with, but

I think you'll need a little background on Hannah first. Hannah is

a young three (thirty-eight months) who was diagnosed in March with

nonverbal autism, verbal apraxia, and general apraxia. We started

an ABA program in mid-March, and once we conquered the concept of

imitation, she has just taken off! By mid June, she was starting to

make open mouth noises and signing a lot. We switched tracks with

therapy a month ago to Verbal Behavior therapy and she has switched

her signs (over one hundred) to words in just the last month. The

apraxia, however, definitely affects her ability to articulate

clearly. We are interested in using the Kaufman Kit for apraxia,

but the school is saying she is too young for it bc it breaks the

words up into sounds which is difficult for autistic kids bc of the

concept of parts/whole relationships. But, they've just started

working with Hannah and don't understand her mind. They seem to

think autism = retarded while Hannah actually borders on the

savant. We homeschool our others and she does phonics with her

kindergarten age brother and she already knows the sounds of all of

the letters, short and long vowels, blends, and about 50 sight

words. So their thinking that she won't understand that letters

have individual sounds is not right, she's already sounding out

words, and she can make sounds for letters, like T and J that she

cannot say in a word. Would the Kaufman Kit be benificial to her?

Has anyone actually used it? It's expensive enough that I don't

want to buy it " just to see " if you understand what I mean. If you

have used it, is it really better for apraxia than other

articulation programs? Thanks for your input... I appreciate it!

Laurie