Guest guest Posted June 30, 2006 Report Share Posted June 30, 2006 can anyone tell me about this particular therapy? and if i get an augmentive device for my child, will the school give up on my child speech ? also, where can i get one of those devices ? Sorry for all the questions .. but am not sure about alot of things and feeling down and worried. thanks. tina Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 30, 2006 Report Share Posted June 30, 2006 http://www.promptinstitute.com/ It's a speech therapy technique where tactile cues are given through gentle touch of the outside of the mouth (jaw, chin, lips and throat) to help train a person to know where to place their tongue and other speech producing structures. For my son it is a Godsend! He is making very very slow progress, but he is making progress and it has been fairly steady and the only thing that has helped him. Miche At 09:58 AM 6/30/2006, you wrote: >can anyone tell me about this particular therapy? > >and if i get an augmentive device for my child, will the school give >up on my child speech ? > >also, where can i get one of those devices ? Sorry for all the >questions .. but am not sure about alot of things and feeling down and >worried. > >thanks. > >tina > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 20, 2007 Report Share Posted June 20, 2007 Hey Dana, Good Afternoon. PROMPT stands for PROMPTs for Restructuring Oral Muscular Targets. Here is a good summary on what PROMPT is: What is PROMPT therapy? " Is a tactile based treatment method for reshaping individual and connected articulatory phonemes (sounds) and sequences. The system uses a different prompt for each English phoneme. " This type of therapy approach is used with children who have motor based speech disorders such as Developmental Apraxia of Speech. Visit the PROMPT Institute <http://www.promptinstitute.com/> for more information. This description is from the following URL: http://www.speechlanguagefeeding.com/faqs.html#5 you can find more information at the PROMPT institute: http://promptinstitute.com/ You can also get a list of therapists from the PROMPT institute: http://promptinstitute.com/parent.html it takes a couple of days to get a response, and they send you a list of therapists that have completed PROMPT training. Unfortunately, we did not find a good one through this route. We requested our early intervention group include PROMPT therapy after reading the Late Talkers book and researching on the web, they gave us a couple of options and we found a good therapist after phone interviewing a few. We have only had her engaged a little over a month, but we have already noticed much greater improvements over traditional speech therapy alone. I would advise against reducing regular speech and language therapy though, all seem to be required in these situations. I would recommend reading that book as well ,it's a quick read and had some good tips in there: http://www.amazon.com/Late-Talker-What-Child-Talking/dp/0312287542 I bought it from Amazon, but you may be able to find it at a local book store? The Apraxia-Kids website is also a great resource, here is an article that may be of interest for your situation: http://www.apraxia-kids.org/site/apps/nl/content.asp?c=chKMI0PIIsE <http://www.apraxia-kids.org/site/apps/nl/content.asp?c=chKMI0PIIsE & b=839037 & ct=837813> & b=839037 & ct=837813 Also, on finding a speech therapist, I would look into your options through your insurance as well as your school district. This stuff seems to get expensive quite quickly. Kind Regards, Aman From: [mailto: ] On Behalf Of dana pope Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2007 7:03 PM Subject: [ ] What is prompt? What is prompt? I am so new to this. Both of my boys have speech and motor apraxia and are still nonverbal at age three, though they will have occassional pop up words and even an occasional two word phrase such as " all done " How would I find a prompt speech therapist? What do they do? and how much do they cost? Dana and Garrett, 3 years old as of Mar 24 SCD One Year!!!!! Celiac, ASD, Speech and Motor Apraxia --------------------------------- Ready for the edge of your seat? Check out tonight's top picks on TV. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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