RE: anyone prefer PROMPT or Kaufman method for hteir kids?

[Guest guest]

Prompt takes a while to get used to for the child. My son did not like it at

first but now he is fine.

[ ] anyone prefer PROMPT or Kaufman method for

hteir kids?

Hi,

My daughter has been seeing a level 3 PROMPT speech therapist for about 2

months now, and I have mixed feelings. The therapist wants me to use the

manual touch techniuqe on my daughter at home, which I am fine with, but

apparently there is a certain way to postion your hands and fingers and the

wrong

position can send the wrong message for sounds to make and I am not

comfortable

doing this at home, even though she had me practice on her. a few mins of

practice doesn't mean I know what I am doing at home the next day. My

husband

feels that he hasn't seen any progress with our daughter, so for those of

you

who chose PROMPT as the speech technique, I am wondering how long did it

take

before your child showed real progress (i.e. making sounds or words on

his/her own etc). ANy of you switched to Kaufman? Anyone with an opinion on

why

you liked one or the other, how your child responded etc etc. I just don't

want

to switch my daughter because of my own issues but I am concerned about the

expectation of me using the manual manipulation at home daily and that I

will

do it wrong and harm my child.

THank you in advance for your time and thoughts. By the way, she is on fish

oil and I am about to start vitamin E but I believe she is not one of those

who are major responders to fish oil, but I will start the vitamin e as well

and see if that makes a difference.

Lori

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How long did it take. We start in 2 weeks.

>

> Prompt takes a while to get used to for the child. My son did not

like it at

> first but now he is fine.

>

> [ ] anyone prefer PROMPT or Kaufman

method for

> hteir kids?

>

>

>

> Hi,

> My daughter has been seeing a level 3 PROMPT speech therapist for

about 2

> months now, and I have mixed feelings. The therapist wants me to

use the

> manual touch techniuqe on my daughter at home, which I am fine

with, but

> apparently there is a certain way to postion your hands and fingers

and the

> wrong

> position can send the wrong message for sounds to make and I am not

> comfortable

> doing this at home, even though she had me practice on her. a few

mins of

> practice doesn't mean I know what I am doing at home the next day.

My

> husband

> feels that he hasn't seen any progress with our daughter, so for

those of

> you

> who chose PROMPT as the speech technique, I am wondering how long

did it

> take

> before your child showed real progress (i.e. making sounds or words

on

> his/her own etc). ANy of you switched to Kaufman? Anyone with an

opinion on

> why

> you liked one or the other, how your child responded etc etc. I

just don't

> want

> to switch my daughter because of my own issues but I am concerned

about the

> expectation of me using the manual manipulation at home daily and

that I

> will

> do it wrong and harm my child.

> THank you in advance for your time and thoughts. By the way, she is

on fish

> oil and I am about to start vitamin E but I believe she is not one

of those

> who are major responders to fish oil, but I will start the vitamin

e as well

>

> and see if that makes a difference.

> Lori

>

> **************Start the year off right. Easy ways to stay in shape.

> http://body.

> <http://body.aol.com/fitness/winter-exercise?

NCID=aolcmp00300000002489>

> aol.com/fitness/winter-exercise?NCID=aolcmp00300000002489

>

>

[Guest guest]

My son received therapy for 2.5 years at the Prompt Inst. Initially Deborah

Hayden worked with him, but after a few months he only saw her occasionally

with her travel schedule and then he was handed fully over to another

therapist there since Deborah only does limited direct therapy. We only

recently stopped because we moved out of state. He started making attempts

after a few sessions, but I didn't see any major leaps, just slow steady

progress after two years of no progress. He responded very well to the

method, but he was also older (4) and didn't mind his face being touched.

I'm surprised that the therapist is encouraging Prompting at home! I was

told absolutely not to, but given other techniques to use. I did end up

Prompting certain sounds, but I was specifically shown in time what to do.

I only Prompted one syllable and it was the " easy " prompts, k, d, nothing

involving the mouth.

My son was also a non-responder to fish oil (or minimal, he started the oils

at the same time as Prompt and made more verbal attempts, but that

improvement levelled off quickly and increased dosageso be no change in her

either. :hasn't helped. I still have him on it, but am considering stopping

and seeing if he's the same without. I've started my baby on fish oil as

well, but there seems t( My son, however, responded very well to Vitamin

E. He now gets 800 IU of alpha and 400 IU of gamma daily and this

improvement is still coming. His articulation is very clear now and he only

sound apraxic with sentences. On one word artic tests he tested

around 3.6in May and

6.6 (or somewhere around there) in December!!! At the time he was

only 6.3months, but thanks to lots of drilling and repetition he has

almost

perfected the /th/ sound which jumps him a little higher. I started the Vit

E in September. That is HUGE and it keeps getting better. Now I wish I

could find something to address his language issues as well.

Miche

On 1/17/08, lorirosen@... <lorirosen@...> wrote:

>

> Hi,

> My daughter has been seeing a level 3 PROMPT speech therapist for about 2

> months now, and I have mixed feelings. The therapist wants me to use the

> manual touch techniuqe on my daughter at home, which I am fine with, but

> apparently there is a certain way to postion your hands and fingers and

> the wrong

> position can send the wrong message for sounds to make and I am not

> comfortable

> doing this at home, even though she had me practice on her. a few mins of

> practice doesn't mean I know what I am doing at home the next day. My

> husband

> feels that he hasn't seen any progress with our daughter, so for those of

> you

> who chose PROMPT as the speech technique, I am wondering how long did it

> take

> before your child showed real progress (i.e. making sounds or words on

> his/her own etc). ANy of you switched to Kaufman? Anyone with an opinion

> on why

> you liked one or the other, how your child responded etc etc. I just don't

> want

> to switch my daughter because of my own issues but I am concerned about

> the

> expectation of me using the manual manipulation at home daily and that I

> will

> do it wrong and harm my child.

> THank you in advance for your time and thoughts. By the way, she is on

> fish

> oil and I am about to start vitamin E but I believe she is not one of

> those

> who are major responders to fish oil, but I will start the vitamin e as

> well

> and see if that makes a difference.

> Lori

>

[Guest guest]

Depends on the sensory stuff. A few weeks, I guess. If I know you, you will

get into it. It moves language along so quickly. We really dont need it

anymore...can you believe that?

[ ] anyone prefer PROMPT or Kaufman

method for

> hteir kids?

>

>

>

> Hi,

> My daughter has been seeing a level 3 PROMPT speech therapist for

about 2

> months now, and I have mixed feelings. The therapist wants me to

use the

> manual touch techniuqe on my daughter at home, which I am fine

with, but

> apparently there is a certain way to postion your hands and fingers

and the

> wrong

> position can send the wrong message for sounds to make and I am not

> comfortable

> doing this at home, even though she had me practice on her. a few

mins of

> practice doesn't mean I know what I am doing at home the next day.

My

> husband

> feels that he hasn't seen any progress with our daughter, so for

those of

> you

> who chose PROMPT as the speech technique, I am wondering how long

did it

> take

> before your child showed real progress (i.e. making sounds or words

on

> his/her own etc). ANy of you switched to Kaufman? Anyone with an

opinion on

> why

> you liked one or the other, how your child responded etc etc. I

just don't

> want

> to switch my daughter because of my own issues but I am concerned

about the

> expectation of me using the manual manipulation at home daily and

that I

> will

> do it wrong and harm my child.

> THank you in advance for your time and thoughts. By the way, she is

on fish

> oil and I am about to start vitamin E but I believe she is not one

of those

> who are major responders to fish oil, but I will start the vitamin

e as well

>

> and see if that makes a difference.

> Lori

>

> **************Start the year off right. Easy ways to stay in shape.

> http://body.

> <http://body. <http://body.aol.com/fitness/winter-exercise?>

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