Re: Sensory integration/speech therapist/Tampa area

[Guest guest]

A feeding specialist is someone that does " oral motor therapy " Sara

is an adviser to CHERAB and I highly recommend her.

http://www.talktools.com You can find out if they can recommend an

oral motor specialist by you. But in fact your can probably contact

your child's pediatric neurologist and ask them for a referral because

my son's one oral motor speech therapist worked right out of the

neurologist's office. Here's the contact info for Sara's office -you

can call and see who they recommend in the Tampa area

Innovative Therapists Int'l, Inc.™ / TalkTools Therapy®

3420 N. Dodge Blvd, Ste 148

Tucson, AZ 85716

Phone: (520) 795-1036

Fax: (520) 795-8559

Email: info@...

Customer Care: customercare@...

SRJ Therapies™

3420 N. Dodge Blvd, Ste 148

Tucson, AZ 85716

Phone: (520) 529-2879

Fax: (520) 795-8559

Email: clinic@...

In addition to oral motor therapy, you may want to see an occupational

therapist (not take that back -you DO want to see an occupational

therapist) who specializes in sensory integration dysfunction. Just

one link -tons out there

http://www.usc.edu/schools/ihp/ot/sensory_integration/

You may also want to try therapeutic listening/Vital Links for the

severe sensory issues -here's the page to find a provider

http://www.vitallinks.net/locator/index.php

In Florida you can contact the following support people:

Tammy Ingram who is one of the moderators here who lives in Tampa and

used to run a support group in Tampa. 727 656 3132

Lyon who is a moderator here who also started and runs the

Florida apraxia group

Florida_Apraxia/?yguid=81356515

Dr. Renai Jonas who even though she is in Boca -I know parents that

travel in to see here from all over...yes she is that worth it and

awesome. Over the phone she may be able to recommend someone even if

you don't go to see her 561 670 4562

Oh and PS -The PROMPT link someone suggested -don't go there based on

what you wrote. PROMPT is a type of " touch cue " therapy for motor

planning and in fact if your twins have " serious " sensory issues this

approach is probably not the one to try first. Since there's a list

of other approaches to try -no biggie.

Hope that helps!

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[Guest guest]

Thanks, .

We did find some therapists in our area via https://promptinstitute.com.

My kids do not seem to be eager to imitate speech no matter what kind of

motivators are used, such as cookies that they really want.  They will get

evaluated next week and hopefully can get some therapy from PROMPT trained

therapists.

Xun

From: kiddietalk <kiddietalk@...>

Subject: [ ] Re: Sensory integration/speech therapist/Tampa

area

Date: Tuesday, January 6, 2009, 10:52 PM

A feeding specialist is someone that does " oral motor therapy " Sara

is an adviser to CHERAB and I highly recommend her.

http://www.talktool s.com You can find out if they can recommend an

oral motor specialist by you. But in fact your can probably contact

your child's pediatric neurologist and ask them for a referral because

my son's one oral motor speech therapist worked right out of the

neurologist' s office. Here's the contact info for Sara's office -you

can call and see who they recommend in the Tampa area

Innovative Therapists Int'l, Inc.™ / TalkTools Therapy®

3420 N. Dodge Blvd, Ste 148

Tucson, AZ 85716

Phone: (520) 795-1036

Fax: (520) 795-8559

Email: infotalktools (DOT) net

Customer Care: customercare@ talktools. net

SRJ Therapies™

3420 N. Dodge Blvd, Ste 148

Tucson, AZ 85716

Phone: (520) 529-2879

Fax: (520) 795-8559

Email: clinictalktools (DOT) net

In addition to oral motor therapy, you may want to see an occupational

therapist (not take that back -you DO want to see an occupational

therapist) who specializes in sensory integration dysfunction. Just

one link -tons out there

http://www.usc. edu/schools/ ihp/ot/sensory_ integration/

You may also want to try therapeutic listening/Vital Links for the

severe sensory issues -here's the page to find a provider

http://www.vitallin ks.net/locator/ index.php

In Florida you can contact the following support people:

Tammy Ingram who is one of the moderators here who lives in Tampa and

used to run a support group in Tampa. 727 656 3132

Lyon who is a moderator here who also started and runs the

Florida apraxia group

http://groups. / group/Florida_ Apraxia/? yguid=81356515

Dr. Renai Jonas who even though she is in Boca -I know parents that

travel in to see here from all over...yes she is that worth it and

awesome. Over the phone she may be able to recommend someone even if

you don't go to see her 561 670 4562

Oh and PS -The PROMPT link someone suggested -don't go there based on

what you wrote. PROMPT is a type of " touch cue " therapy for motor

planning and in fact if your twins have " serious " sensory issues this

approach is probably not the one to try first. Since there's a list

of other approaches to try -no biggie.

Hope that helps!

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[Guest guest]

Xun did you read my message? PROMPT is not the therapy of choice for

twins with " severe sensory issues "

I'm sure they will see you and don't know if they'll share what I did

below -good luck!

PS -but again I'd try other therapies 'first' -but that's my opinion.

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[Guest guest]

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I wish cookies " motivated " a child to talk! Just call me Mrs. Field's!!!

If a child has a true delay or impairment of speech- motivation

methods are not considered direct therapy. Of course no matter what

therapy method used it's appropriate to incorporate some type of

reward, but that has to be done in a way that is fair for the child.

A speech impairment is beyond that child's control -so anyone using

rewards alone to try to get a child to talk is putting more pressure

and frustration on that child.

It's great you are seeking out a traditional speech therapist -but if

your twins have severe sensory issues they should be in occupational

therapy as well.

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[Guest guest]

,

We did find a speech therapist who has received training from Sara

Rosenfeld-  but she had a major surgery recently and will not be back to

work soon.

My kids have never received a diagnosis for Apraxia but one for autism.  So they

are going thru ABA, which is supposed to be the most effective method for

autistic kids.  They are now used to using PECS cards but their speech have not

improved but degraded in the last year.

Xun 

From: kiddietalk <kiddietalk@...>

Subject: [ ] Re: Sensory integration/speech therapist/Tampa

area

Date: Wednesday, January 7, 2009, 1:59 PM

)

I wish cookies " motivated " a child to talk! Just call me Mrs. Field's!!!

If a child has a true delay or impairment of speech- motivation

methods are not considered direct therapy. Of course no matter what

therapy method used it's appropriate to incorporate some type of

reward, but that has to be done in a way that is fair for the child.

A speech impairment is beyond that child's control -so anyone using

rewards alone to try to get a child to talk is putting more pressure

and frustration on that child.

It's great you are seeking out a traditional speech therapist -but if

your twins have severe sensory issues they should be in occupational

therapy as well.

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