Guest guest Posted March 23, 2006 Report Posted March 23, 2006 PROMPT is a biggie in the Apraxia world, but there are other affective therapies as well. Check at the Apraxia Kids website and you can get more info than you can possible imagine. a > > Hi, > > I am a speech therapist (MA, CCC-SLP - Masters of Arts, certification of clinical competence, speech language pathologist) and my son has apraxia. And I firmly believe that there is a huge biomedical component to this. There is a system called PROMPT (using tactile facical cues to give muscles input and stimulate contractions for speech sounds / oral motor movements) that I was just trained in in January 2006. We are experiencing some success with it but apraxia can be a tough road. If you want to email me directly, I will help you (or anyone else) as much as I can over the internet. I actually take my son to an SLP who has been doing PROMPT for years and of course she can get more out of him than I can. I guess when you're " mom " of course your kid won't cooperate but my kids at work do (LOL)... In any case, you want a speech therapist who is CCC certified and ideally PROMPT trained by the PROMPT Institute. There are also several good oral motor programs that can help... > Good luck, I truly understand what you all are going through, we live it everyday. > jenniferdmeade@... > PS The Kauffman system / praxis cards are really good too > > Quote
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