We use a variety of treatment approaches when treating Childhood Apraxia of Speech (CAS) as no one treatment is a "one size fits all" for all children. We focus on motor planning and increasing accuracy of approximation of words to immediately increase the child's feelings of success in therapy and at home. Our goal is for the child to feel confident in their speech efforts and to love coming to speech! We incorporate toys and/or games that the child will enjoy and choose target words that have a specific motor plan that can be produced multiple times within that session as we play with the toy/game. Research indicates that multiple repetitions of the target motor plan lead to the best results, so we incorporate that into our sessions. We also teach families how to do this at home. Families are encouraged to participate in sessions and we collaborate with them on how the child learns best while sharing what we know based on the current research for CAS. We teach families the power of word approximations (sometimes we call these "first forms" of words) so that the child's efforts can be immediately affirmed. This is an important part of our approach. Once families understand how approximations work, and how motor planning is targeted, it is amazing to see the progress kids can make with early/frequent/intense intervention! We will also educate parents on the use of AAC to facilitate effective/successful communication and will often incorporate that into our sessions. We don't always recommend AAC devices for children with CAS, but the use of them simultaneously with speech production has proven to be very effective.