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- Sheri-Anne
- Taylor
- 500-D Canatara Ct
Kingston
Ontario
K7M 0E4
Canada - Big Words Little People
Kingston
Ontario
K7M 0E4
Canada
My therapy changes over time with families as a child grows and both the child and parent become more comfortable in practicing speech. For younger children I work from play-based to structured sessions moving from reviewing home support strategies to direct speech/motor work over time. My sessions are child focused: I incorporate a child’s interests and motivators into choices of activities and target goal words. Gaining rapport and understanding the child and their interests allows us to create realistic/relevant and achievable goals. My sessions remain positive! I shift the focus as needed to decrease frustration while meeting success in a session. I use a variety of multi-modal cuing, including tactile cues, varying my speech rate, and using visual and verbal modeling to support a child’s acquisition of motor plans for speech. I Include repetition and provide clear/specific feedback throughout the therapy session. I encourage use of gestures and other means of communication, alongside our speech goals to help support overall communication.
Throughout treatment sessions, I model interaction and treatment techniques that can be duplicated for home practice. I provide ongoing narration throughout a session on current goals, reason for choosing that goal, and how to adjust a goal to achieve success. I involve parents at all stages to ensure they understand what I am doing, how I am doing it, and the rationale behind it. We allow for time during a session for parents to give me insight into their child and communication at home. This back-and-forth relationship enables us to set realistic, achievable goals. Home practice is an integral part of the therapy process. I try to balance the importance of family involvement with family capacity (time and energy) to set realistic home practice goals. Together we review and I provide a summary for home reference at the end of the session. I am reachable between sessions for questions and offer parent-only virtual sessions as needed.
Depending on the child, stage of communication and communication needs, I will often use theme boards that allow a child to participate and make choices within an activity, or more complex low-tech communication books that allow a child to point out specific topics or words within a conversation that are harder to understand. As a community clinician, I work closely with SLPs from our local Augmentative Communication Services to implement both low- and high-tech communication systems with my clients.
