Re: Betsy

[Guest guest]

Can someone tell me what PROMPT certified therapy is? (it has been referred

to a few times)

I am new to this group and apraxia...

Thanks in advance for your help!

-----Original Message-----

I also supplement with PROEFA, in addition to both OT and PT.

All that I know is that Lucas had really no words until the PROMPT

therapy

--- In fact, when the therapist started to touch his face, that was the

first

time we got " p " " b " and " m " ... so I am a believer -- even while I know

there

are probably a multitude of methods to get those sounds out, this is how we

have

gotten some results.

Good Luck and all the best to you.

Lois

[Guest guest]

Hi Lois,

What is PROMPT therapy and how do you use it?

> All that I know is that Lucas had really no words until the

>PROMPT therapy

>--- In fact, when the therapist started to touch his face, that was

>the first

>time we got " p " " b " and " m " ... so I am a believer -- even while I

>know there

>are probably a multitude of methods to get those sounds out, this is

>how we have

>gotten some results.

>

>Good Luck and all the best to you.

>Lois

[Guest guest]

Thank you for the email, Lois. Is prompt like touch-cueing? Wiley's speech

therapist uses touch cues. Wiley imitates the touch cues and says ba or

whatever is his catch-all, which is actually da. Da essentially means

everything. I love the little guy - he's so happy but definitely he gets

frustrated - I'm going to put together a set routine for home, etc., and

create picture boards around them and hang them in the kitchen for him to

see and begin to understand. I guess I'll carry on the extra therapy at

home with touch, etc and sign, and in the Fall, he will start speech therapy

5 times a week btw school and his current therapist. Of course if a couple

of months pass and he still is not progressing well, I'll probably get a

therapist specialized in apraxia and get wiley in to see a neurologist over

at Children's after his follow-up speech eval. Then we'll get the

diagnosis, get greater health ins. coverage for co-pays, and make everything

more intensive. I do want his childhood to last a few more weeks, anyway,

before totally bombarding him with therapies. He already does so much.

Thanks for the information. I really need to try this Proefa stuff - have

there been any reported bad side effects from it???

Betsy

>From: " Lois Zabrocky " <lzabrocky@...>

>Reply-

>

>Subject: [ ] Betsy

>Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 09:23:35 -0400

>

>

>Betsy,

>

> Smart Mom! Seems to me that you are asking the right question and

>that is

>-- regardless of the diagnosis, is your son getting enough therapy? There

>seem

>to be varying schools of thought, but for severe APRAXIA -- frequency,

>duration,

>(1:1) have all been emphasized to me. It may seem like overkill, but our

>dev.

>ped recommended 5 sessions x 60 minutes per week of PROMPT certified

>therapy.

> OK -- my son is also 2.5 so I feel like we are in the same place.

>Now

>Lucas has certainly over 50 words, maybe 75... it may not sound like much

>but he

>is repeating everything and trying so hard. Regardless of the diagnosis,

>what

>you want is for your son to start talking as any mom would.

> It took us nearly a year to completely satisfy the above

> " perscription " ,

>and it took mediation combined with private therapist, but we have speech

>every

>day. I also supplement with PROEFA, in addition to both OT and PT.

> All that I know is that Lucas had really no words until the PROMPT

>therapy

>--- In fact, when the therapist started to touch his face, that was the

>first

>time we got " p " " b " and " m " ... so I am a believer -- even while I know

>there

>are probably a multitude of methods to get those sounds out, this is how we

>have

>gotten some results.

>

>Good Luck and all the best to you.

>Lois

>

>

>

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