Re: IS PROMPT NECESSARY??? KRIS

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How old is your child? Does she get frustrated? How long have you been doing

prompt? Can you tell me if you think it's helping?

Thanks,

Haukoos <catnip9@...> wrote:

That's how are PROMPT therapist works. She incorporates the sounds

with what they are playing with and making me daughter request this

or that and then she corrects her using the cues, etc. It's pretty

intense and lasts for an hour.

Kris

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On Jun 21, 2007, at 11:13 AM, lauren baron wrote:

> Hi ,

> Thanks for your response. I'm sure every PROMPT therapist has their

> own style, but I am wondering about my therapist now. She is

> prompting him a whole lot. I understand that this may be necessary

> as he has very few sounds that he has control of (uh, oh, ah, ba,

> mmm). There is some play involved, but it's basically " oh, you want

> to turn this on?, say on " and a prompt, " oh you want to eat the

> goldfish? say open. " and a prompt, " oh you want to say bye bye to

> the toy?, say bye bye " and another prompt, etc, etc.... for 45

> minutes with little breaks that involve oral motor exercise. If he

> says an incorrect sound or just babbles she tells him " no, try

> again " and prompts again. Does this seem to intense? He's 19

> months. He has a lot of fun in regular Speech and does make some

> progress there. Any thoughts based on your experiences?

> Thanks so much,

>

>

> Grassia wrote:

> My son has gone to the Prompt Inst for almost two years and it has

> been wonderful for him.

>

> Having said that his therapists (even Deborah Hayden the founder of

> the method) were not in his face the entire hour session! It was

> initially very play based when he started and he was Prompted as

> needed. If he could use a visual model or better yet just an auditory

> one he wasn't Prompted just for the heck of it! Now the majority of

> the session isn't using Prompt, but he is as needed. After the first

> few months he started seeking out the Prompt when he realized it was

> helping him, and his frustrations were less too. Early on he would

> actually reach for his therapist's hands and place them on his face

> when he needed more help. Now he verbally asks for help or turns his

> face expectantly toward his therapist.

>

> He started with Prompt just before he turned 4. I doubt that he would

> have been receptive to the method a year before. But then " regular "

> therapy wasn't working either. Even since he's had therapists with

> the schools and he has gotten nothing out of it. One of them even

> said she couldn't do anything for him - she understood his issues

> which are more complex than " just " apraxia - he also has language

> issues, but she strongly felt that Prompt was what was helping him,

> not her.

>

> In your case I would suggest sticking with it or maybe looking for

> another therapist and seeing if that is a better fit. Or if he's very

> resistant a break might be in order, but please don't completely

> discount the method! I don't believe it is the ONLY way, but for my

> son it has been a very good method and the only thing he's responded

> to (although we haven't tried some other specific to apraxia

> approaches as no therapists here other than Prompt seem to really

> " get " apraxia.)

>

> Miche

>

> > > My 19 month old son has been diagnosed with apraxia. We have 2

> > > different SLP's right now. One is PROMPT certified and the

> other is

> > > not. He sees the PROMPT therapist once a week (and that's all

> she has

> > > available) and the other SLP twice a week. To me he seems to do

> well

> > > with both, but he doesn't seem to enjoy the PROMPT. He's

> clearly not

> > > thrilled with having her in/on his face for 45 minutes

> straight. On

> > > the other hand he loves the other SLP. My problem is the PROMPT

> SLP is

> > > all about PROMPT. She insists it's the only way to go with an

> apraxic

> > > child and that he should absolutely be getting more PROMPT each

> week.

> > > She makes it seem like the other speech he's getting is not

> > > worthwhile,

> > > but I feel it is. Can anyone give me their thought on this? Do

> I need

> > > to search out another PROMPT SLP? I'd rather continue with the

> regular

> > > SLP (in addition to once a week PROMPT)because Tyler loves her and

> > > she's working with me to get our health insurance to cover her

> > > therapy. But of course I want to do whatever will be most

> beneficial

> > > for Tyler.

> > > Did anyone find great sucees with out PROMPT for their apraxic

> child?

> > > BTW we also are doing Fish Oils and currently trying a casein free

> > > diet.

> > > Thanks for any advice!

> > >

>

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