SLP Category: Recognized by Apraxia Kids for Advanced Training and Expertise in Childhood Apraxia of Speech
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- Heera
- Chandani
- 4711 Golf Road, Suite 100
Skokie
Illinois
60076
United States - Chandani & Burns, LLC
Skokie
Illinois
60076
United States
Our therapy sessions for children are multi-sensory and play-based; they are never short of fun! Incorporating fun and humor (lots of silliness) has our children wanting to come back for more. Our office is filled with toys and games for all ages! We also incorporate movement and social-emotional learning into our sessions. For example, if HI and BYE are your child’s target words, they would practice saying these words with the clinician (several repetitions) and then walk around the office to use those greetings with other friends. Another example is saying a word five times with visual feedback (e.g., putting one coin per repetition in a piggy bank) and then running the shopping cart across the room to pick up an item, and then going back to their repetitions. We have lots of laughs and giggles!
We strongly believe in a family-centered approach and that while every child deserves a voice, every parent deserves an opportunity to hear it! During the therapy process, we continue to gather information from the family, including highly motivating words for their child to say (e.g., the child's friends' names, favorite toys) as well as their changing likes and interests. We then incorporate these into our sessions. In addition to encouraging caregivers to be a part of the session, we send them videos from our therapy sessions including specific ways in which we are targeting different syllable shapes and words in a fun and meaningful way. We then provide practice worksheets and ideas for activities to complete at home, to facilitate generalization of learning. We continually provide our families with training as well as regular updates on their children’s progress. Due to our personalized approach, we ask our families what works best for them and try to work around their needs.
We are known for our expertise in both apraxia as well as AAC. We always try to incorporate AAC (both low tech boards and books, as well as high tech devices) into our sessions. One example is having a child vocalize several repetitions of their target word (e.g., “pop”) for motor learning and then using that word in a combination (phrase or sentence) using AAC (e.g., pointing to the pictures for POP-BIG-BUBBLE). In this way, they are also learning how to functionally build word units into sentences. Many of our children are highly motivated by their devices so we select the target word on their device while we say it to provide a model for the child to repeat after. The child then also learns the locations of their target words on their devices.