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- Stephanie
- Warman
- 8007 NW 122nd Street
Oklahoma City
Oklahoma
73142
United States - Speech Pathway
Oklahoma City
Oklahoma
73142
United States
Therapy can be so fun and engaging, even if it has to be repetitive to treat CAS. For younger children, therapy can look like picking toys and then choosing targets within the child's care plan so we get multiple repetitions of the motor pattern throughout the session. As we get older, therapy sessions are more structured with multiple repetitions of motor patterns. For all ages, I like providing sensory input (bouncing on balls, moving chairs, sitting under tables, etc.), to assist in getting the wiggles out. Speech therapy in general takes a lot of brain power, but speech therapy with CAS can be particularly difficult for children because of the repetition involved. I try to make it as fun as possible while also getting numerous repetitions in!
I love for parents to be in the room, working with me to carry over targets to the home environment. If it's better for parents to watch virtually from their car, that's perfectly fine by me, but I love to be a partner with families in taking home everything their child learns in therapy. Home practice is where the magic happens!
AAC can be an incredible tool for growing verbal language and providing functional communication for a child whose verbal communication is limited due to CAS. We know a lot of children with CAS have excellent receptive language skills, with A LOT to say, but it's just difficult for them to produce. AAC can provide a means of functional communication for children with CAS as well as provide them with a model each time they use their device. I've used it to help children gain access to their needs, as well as help them increase the amount of modeling they hear throughout the day, which hopefully leads to more attempts at the motor plans they're hearing produced by their device. Giving children access to the power of communication can lead to less frustration surrounding communication, which gives them more confidence in attempting targets they may not have tried before. Given more repetition of those targets, the hope is that we can create more easily-accessed motor patterns and better overall communication.
