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- Kayla
- Fontenot
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- 4441 Long Prairie Road, Suite 100
Flower Mound
Texas
75028
United States - Flower Mound Speech & Therapy Center
Flower Mound
Texas
75028
United States
Treatment always begins at the level the child is currently able to participate. If child is able to produce Consonant-Vowel (C-V) and Vowel-Consonant (V-C) syllables, I begin by creating a functional word list for the child to gain easy access to communication and achieve early success. Simultaneously, we begin to add in sounds the child may not have mastered, but is close to mastering, and make words in the CV/VC shapes with those sounds. Treatment includes mass amount of practice on these few targets. The child is cued visually, with a card and/or hand gesture and in a tactile method (for example, PROMPT as appropriate). I also use the approach of simultaneously producing the speech target with the child, using my voice at decreasing volumes to give the child simultaneous auditory feedback.
Parents are invited to participate in the evaluation and treatment planning process. Parent education is a heavy component in planning the appropriate method of treatment and goals. Parents are provided with home practice in the form of written communication and video modeling. Parents are also invited to participate in the treatment session, if deemed appropriate, and demonstrations of techniques and feedback are provided as needed.
I incorporate AAC silmutaneously with speech work. I typically teach a child and family how to use a device, and it is used when there are communicative breakdowns in therapy. We tend to have the device ready and placed to the side during speech practice time in therapy. The goal of the speech sessions is to produce as much speech as possible, so we tend to focus less on the device once the child knows how to use it. If extensive work is needed with the device, I may refer out to another SLP to specifically work on device training.
