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- Sommer
- Luke
- 1600 Miller Trunk Highway
Duluth
Minnesota
55811
United States - Essentia Health
Duluth
Minnesota
55811
United States
My therapy focus for children with CAS is based upon building accuracy and efficiency of motor speech movements to improve children's overall ability to communicate effectively. Because the speech planning and programming is different in children with diagnosed CAS, my treatment reflects this difference in that my therapy will: involve a smaller set of practice targets/words, higher repetitions of each target/word, focus on the movement transitions and accuracy instead of the individual sounds, careful consideration of vowel movements and accuracy, and an increased frequency of therapy sessions per week. I work to incorporate multi-sensory cueing to provide support that will give children the most success and meet them where they're at. Even children with a very reduced speech sound/word inventory, can form the building blocks to increasing speech sound movements and accuracy when we carefully consider these treatment methods and apply them which is my ultimate therapy goal.
I work to involve my parents throughout the therapy process in treating CAS by having them regularly offer input to functional words and targets they would like for their child to be able to communicate.
I have incorporated the use of both low tech (picture symbol exchange systems) and high tech (speech generating devices) Augmentative and Alternative Communication systems in children with CAS by incorporating their access to functional communication wants and needs. I have done this by programming or creating message content for a variety of communicative functions such as making requests (“more”, “help”, “please”, etc.), commenting (specific toys/objects/places the child talks about), negating (“no”, “all done”, “space please”, etc.), greetings (“hi”, “bye”, specific family and friend names, teachers, etc.), and medical needs (“hurt/pain”, “sick”, body part, etc.). When children with CAS have difficulty with peers and caregivers understanding their wants and needs verbally, they should have access to another communication modality and AAC is an excellent means of addressing this area. Additionally, I have incorporated the treatment targets in children with CAS onto their AAC devices to provide a visual representation and auditory feedback, however, I am careful to prevent any negative learned practice.
