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- Rebecca
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- In-Person Therapy in Tennessee
Brentwood
Tennessee
37027
United States - Tandem Pediatric Therapies
Brentwood
Tennessee
37027
United States
Treatment sessions are individualized based on each client’s unique communication strengths and challenges. For patients receiving treatment focused solely on motor speech production, each treatment session focuses on a small set of motivating and functional target words. For one child it may be motivating to learn how to produce their own name, whereas for another child it may be more motivating to learn how to say the name of their favorite television or movie character. Target words are selected based on the sound patterns a child is already producing and expanding on those skills. I often embed treatment target words in child-led and clinician-led play routines to maintain high motivation and functionality. For some clients, I may work on receptive language goals (language understanding) and expressive language goals (overall language use goals) in addition to motor speech goals.
Parents are an integral part of a child’s treatment team. Parent involvement in the therapeutic process helps increase parent and child comfortability with embedding motor speech tasks in their daily routines outside of direct treatment sessions. Once a child is producing target words in sessions with high independent accuracy, I often ask parents to work on these target words at home to ensure the child’s accuracy is generalizing to other communication scenarios.
Alternative Augmentative Communication (AAC) supports are a phenomenal tool for patients with significant communication frustration. The implementation of high tech AAC supports (speech generating devices, iPads with communication software programs) or no/low tech AAC supports (sign language, picture supports) can be fundamental in helping a child express an immediate communication need for words they aren’t yet able to produce using verbal communication. In terms of implementing a high-tech AAC system, I often look at introducing the child to a motor based AAC system (e.g., LAMP, WordPower) due to the known difficulties with motor planning.
