Re: Re: At a loss as to which direction I shouldtake - PROMPT or more traditional style

[Guest guest]

Yes Debra beckman's structured stretches are wonderful! I use the approp one as

a warm up for ea child's session. I am trained in Beckman & Kaufman's

techniques.

Warmest wishes,

Barbara A , M.S., CCC-SLP

Executive Director, Help Me Speak, LLC

410-442-9791

[ ] Re: At a loss as to which direction I should take

- PROMPT or more traditional style

Go with your gut! MY son started PROMPT when he was barely 27 months and we saw

incredible development. He went from 2-3 words that were unintelligible, to now

at almost 34mos he's speaking in 8-9 word sentences that are still hard to

understand, but most people can get what he's trying to say. We did PROMPT, fish

oils and of course, he's still a developing child so who knows what was the key

trigger. I think all 3 played a significant role. However, I'm not sure where

we'd be if it weren't for starting PROMPT.

I fully believe in it's effectiveness and if I had to go back and do it again,

I'd jump at the chance to start him on this therapy again.

It is a bit more " hands-on " and aggressive than other typical therapies, but I

think that's probably one of the reasons it's working.

Good luck!

Sharon

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> Hi there,

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> I've a 24mth boy who is totally non verbal, and makes only a couple of sounds.

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> My gut feeling was to go with a PROMPT trained therapist (being that I'm in

Australia, there are very few sp with this training, but I have managed to find

one lady who has advanced training in this style of therapy).

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> Now here is my dilemma. I have been in contact with a lady by the name of

Caroline Bowen - she is the leader in the field of apraxia in Australia, but

unfortunately is not taking on new clients. She gave me a somewhat negative

opinion to PROMPT, saying that there was not enough study/research done on it to

warrant saying that it was 'the way to go'.

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> She has given me the name of a sp who does have extensive experience in

treating kids with apraxia, and after speaking with her, have been told that she

has one spot open at the moment. My concern being that this particular sp does

not use Kaufman technique, and knew little about PROMPT (and she beleived my boy

was a little young to benefit from it).

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> The lady who has the PROMPT training, also has a child with severe speech

disorder (I'm not exactly sure what), and her opinion is that PROMPT is the best

way to go.

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> What are your opinions on the direction I should take?

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