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- Brianna
- Nickell
- 3795 West 95th Street
Overland Park
Kansas
66206
United States - Kansas City Developmental Therapies
Overland Park
Kansas
66206
United States
My therapy strategies include getting to know a child’s personality, what is important or interests them and their families, and incorporating that into the treatment plan. Treatment targets are selected with input from the child’s caregivers, the child (if old enough), and teachers to ensure targets are as functional as possible. Treatment sessions are play-based so I am often on the floor or up moving around the room for younger kids. I use a battery of assessments and tasks to diagnose childhood apraxia of speech and use Dynamic Temporal and Tactile Cueing (DTTC) and the principles of motor learning in my treatment sessions.
I ask all my parents to help select treatment target and implement a functional home program when the child is ready to move to a more generalized practice setting. I also ensure that parents have had practice cueing for correct productions of targets in sessions before parents are asked to practice targets at home.
I have obtained trial devices for younger children with CAS so that they have a functional mode of communication while we are working on improving their verbal communication. When a speech generating device is not appropriate, unobtainable, or not desired by the family, I have worked with caregivers to develop a picture system so that the child can repair communication breakdowns..