SLP Category: Recognized by Apraxia Kids for Advanced Training and Expertise in Childhood Apraxia of Speech
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- Lisa
- Murphy
- Yes
- Victoria, BC
Victoria
British Columbia
V8T 4K6
Canada - GVSD
Victoria
British Columbia
V8T 4K6
Canada
I am an SLP who strives to support children with CAS and their families by providing fun, motivating, and connection-based speech therapy sessions. Our therapy sessions will target the underlying difficulties that children with CAS struggle with – the planning and programming of the muscles used for speech (a motor skill).
Another important aspect of my work with families is working on specific strategies that parents and caregivers can use at home within their everyday routines and activities to support their child with achieving their specific communication goals.
Parents are a key part of each stage of the therapy process. In the beginning, being the people who know their child the best, they can set us up for success by letting me know more about their child so that their interests can be included in therapy, giving the child the intrinsic motivation to work on their speech skills while having fun. While my work with your child will be regular and involve lots of speech practice, we will brainstorm ways that you can incorporate speech practice into your daily routines so that your child will get the much-needed practice between sessions. The aim is to increase the speech practice time in a way that is fun and natural for your family, but also in a way that will support continued development of speech skills.
In my career as an SLP I have supported and currently support many children (aged 5 and younger and more recently the school-aged population) who use/have used AAC. Introducing AAC can help to give a child a voice to express things that may be difficult to express with speech alone, to decrease frustration, and to support the child’s ongoing language development while we work on their speech sound production skills. In all cases, AAC can been crucial to give the child more experiences where they are successful at communicating so that they see themselves as a competent and confident communicator.
