It is often difficult to motivate children with childhood apraxia of speech (CAS) to practice at home or even to cooperate within a therapy session.  This webinar will offer suggestions to maximize practice through play.  Therapy materials are implemented as well, though paired with play activity.  Kaufman Speech to Language Protocol (K-SLP) methods of cueing motor-speech and scripting functional expressive language to include the language of toys and games will be emphasized. Fading cues and scripts as well as teaching successive approximations toward target words and phrases is taught.  Parents and caregivers are coached to pair themselves with fun toys and activities, making the speech and language practice activities highly preferred, exciting and successful.

Children with childhood apraxia of speech (CAS) require cues to help them to remember the upcoming consonants, vowels, and syllables of practice words. They also often need help to combine words to formulate phrases and sentences by following scripts that they can retain and implement spontaneously. This webinar will overview how cues and scripts can assist children with CAS to become successful vocal communicators. Cueing and scripting techniques will be overviewed and presented via video.

The competency course combines Nancy Kaufman's 6-hour K-SLP overview with three new expert-level courses on the following subjects:

1. Strategic selection of practice words and phrases in childhood apraxia of speech
2. Framing techniques to achieve clinical excellence in CAS therapy
3. Clinical mistakes in the treatment of CAS and what to consider instead

Clinicians who successfully complete this course will demonstrate proficiency in the K-SLP, which is the most-used method for CAS treatment in the United States.

Available through northernspeech.com for 1.0 CEU (10 hours of content)

The methods, strategies, and techniques presented in this course follow the most current research in CAS and will provide clinicians with the information they need to help children progress from a simple core vocabulary to phrases and eventually to sentences and conversational speech. Therapy session videos will be shown throughout the presentation to enhance the learning experience.

Children ages 2-6 years will be the focus of this presentation. Offered for 0.6 ASHA CEUs.

Run Time: 6:00:01

Course Overview:

1. Overview of the K-SLP Approach | Roots in Applied Behavioral Analysis (ABA/AVB)
2. Evaluation of CAS | Signs and Symptoms
3. Simplifying the Motor Plans of Words | Shaping Successive Word Approximations
4. Implementing and Fading Cues
5. Combining Words | Scripting Functional Expressive Language
6. Behavioral Principles, Errorless Teaching, and Five Lists of Single Words
7. Coaching Parents
8. K-SLP and Autism Spectrum Disorders
9. Pre and Post Progress Videos