I use an individualized multimodal approach to treat CAS. I analyze child’s language samples, and formulate goals based on my informal assessment. The goal of therapy is to increase intelligibility to familiar and unfamiliar listeners. During therapy sessions, I target goals and recognize the need for repetition is key for children to translate sound combinations into their motor memory. I use tactile-kinesthetic prompts and PROMPT (PROMPTS for Restructuring Oral Muscular Phonetic Targets) to cue children, when visual and verbal models are not sufficient. If decreased intelligibility is noted, I would discuss the possible use of AAC (Augmentative and Alternative communication). AAC has the power to enhance verbal speech production and gives the child a way to communicate wants and needs when speech intelligibility is compromised. Please contact me for more information regarding treatment plans, as each plan I create for a child is highly individualized.

I am trained in PROMPT, Oral Placement Therapy, and Dynamic Temporal Tactile Cueing.