Children Who Struggle to Speak: The Kaufman Speech to Language Protocol
February 26, 2010
Baton Rouge, LA
Many children are unable to speak or are unintelligible because they either lack an adequate repertoire of consonants and vowels in isolation, or because they have difficulty combining the oral motor movements necessary to form words. Quite often the above deficiencies are rooted in the neurological condition of Childhood Apraxia of Speech. Due to the prevalence of this condition, it is important that early intervention clinicians be comfortable diagnosing and treating this population. In fact, ASHA has recently issued a position stating that the individual best able to diagnose and treat Childhood Apraxia of Speech is the SLP.
This clinical seminar will focus on evaluation and treatment. The seminar begins with discussions of differential diagnosis of apraxia, flaccid dysarthria and phonological disorders, then moves into practical and functional treatment techniques. Introduced will be the key concepts of phonemic simplification, successive word approximations and pivot syllables, and how treatment interventions derived from these concepts have proven highly effective in increasing speech intelligibility in children with apraxia of speech.
Functional and focused on interventions, actual treatment session video clips appear early and often throughout the lecture. The easy-to-incorporate methods, strategies and techniques presented will provide clinicians with the necessary tools to help children with apraxia of speech begin progressing immediately from a simple core vocabulary toward phrases and eventually to sentences and even conversational speech.
For more information or to register, please contact Northern Speech Services at 888-337-3866 or visit http://www.nss-nrs.com.
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