Description Use the Treatment Program for Childhood Apraxia of Speech to apply the principles of motor planning to the treatment of childhood apraxia of speech (CAS). Designed for speech-language pathologists (SLPS), the program comes complete with detailed instruction manual, 2000 stimulus pictures, and tactile-kinesthetic cue cards.
The 65-page manual shows you how to establish motor learning for different syllable shapes and pattern sequences, incorporate research-based principles into therapy organization and goal selection, and:
select target sounds and words to build intelligibility and promote easier acquisition
set up a practice schedule to maximize motor learning
use blocked practice to establish new motor sequences
use random practice to facilitate generalization of learned motor sequences
adjust the type and frequency of cues/modeling
adjust the type and frequency of performance feedback
incorporate prosody training early in the treatment program
use tactile/kinesthetic cue cards to support the establishment of movement sequences for speech
The stimulus cards are customized to apraxia therapy with:
325 picture cards (three pictures per side for 1950 pictures)
30 picture cards for multisyllabic words (one picture per side for 60 total pictures)
12 tactile-kinesthetic cue cards
The tactile-kinesthetic cue cards develop sound blending and syllable transitions. The cue cards represent the following hierarchy of syllable structure:
CV words
VC words
CVC words
Initial strident/continuant
Final strident/continuant
Medial consonants
Backward chaining: /s/ blends
Backward chaining: /l/, /r/ blends
Three-syllable words
Four-syllable words
Repetitions: caterpillar
Repetitions: dinosaur
With the Treatment Program for Childhood Apraxia of Speech program therapists are able to help clients:
establish a wide variety of phonetic movements/motor plans
stabilize sounds that are produced inconsistently
establish a core, meaningful vocabulary
speak with smoother syllable transitions
How To Use It The Treatment Program for Childhood Apraxia of Speech contains both stimulus cards and tactile-kinesthetic cue cards. To use the tactile-kinesthetic cue cards students produce a variety of phoneme sequences while moving one finger along a visual representation of the movement sequence. All cards are coated, so you can write target sound sequences on them with a dry-erase marker.
What’s In The Box Complete Kit includes:
65-page manual
325 (7½" x 2½") double-sided, coated picture/stimuli cards
12 (4" x 6") cue cards
30 (4" x 6") double-sided, coated picture/stimuli cards