Re: PROMPT therapy & maybe McCarton Center

[Guest guest]

Our SLP started with our son right away. At the time he only had 1-2

words. He's making a lot of progress with it and now she rarely has to

prompt him. It's only reallly been 1-2 months since we started the

prompting.

Kris

On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 6:32 AM, igreene_88 <ivygreene88@...> wrote:

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> Does a child have to have at least a good amount of words, approximations

> in his repertoire in order for PROMPT to be appropraiate form of therapy?

>

> My son had better speech two years ago than he did last year or this year.

> He had a lot of speech, PROMPT included. He has been on many biomed

> interventions, with no gains. NV is our latest trial, two scoops daily for

> the last two months...not seeing anything.

>

> Any ideas? Would love to hear!

>

> Thinking of getting eval from McCarton center, yet that money will take

> away from speech therapy and OT. My son' s issues are slight, , no ASD, just

> severe in the verbal apraxia...so wondering what McCarton could possibly say

> that we aren't already doing. We have 20 evals from all sorts of docs and

> SLPs that say " do as you are doing " .

>

> thank you, mom in need of advice,

> Ivy

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[Guest guest]

In what city & state is that center?

Warmest wishes,

Barbara A , M.S.,CCC-SLP

CEO,

Help Me Speak, LLC

www.helpmespeak.com

2500 Wallington Way

Suite 103

Marriottsville, MD 21104

410-442-9791

Ask me about NutriiVeda!

On Jan 21, 2011, at 9:32 AM, " igreene_88 " <ivygreene88@...> wrote:

> Does a child have to have at least a good amount of words, approximations in

his repertoire in order for PROMPT to be appropraiate form of therapy?

>

> My son had better speech two years ago than he did last year or this year. He

had a lot of speech, PROMPT included. He has been on many biomed interventions,

with no gains. NV is our latest trial, two scoops daily for the last two

months...not seeing anything.

>

> Any ideas? Would love to hear!

>

> Thinking of getting eval from McCarton center, yet that money will take away

from speech therapy and OT. My son' s issues are slight, , no ASD, just severe

in the verbal apraxia...so wondering what McCarton could possibly say that we

aren't already doing. We have 20 evals from all sorts of docs and SLPs that say

" do as you are doing " .

>

> thank you, mom in need of advice,

> Ivy

>

>

[Guest guest]

Did you mention how old your son is? My 9yo dd had about five or less words, if

we called them that when she started Prompt in prek when she got her severe

apraxia dx. Prompt continued into K with our SD. The SD SLP just told me last

year that Prompt doesnt work as well as they get older, it works better with the

little ones. So she said she does not need it as much now. Are you getting

services thru SD?

Maureen

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> Does a child have to have at least a good amount of words, approximations in

his repertoire in order for PROMPT to be appropraiate form of therapy?

>

> My son had better speech two years ago than he did last year or this year. He

had a lot of speech, PROMPT included. He has been on many biomed interventions,

with no gains. NV is our latest trial, two scoops daily for the last two

months...not seeing anything.

>

>

[Guest guest]

Ivy:

TO address your questions about whether or not a child needs a repertoire of

words before PROMPT will work, I wanted to share our experience. From my

perspective, the answer would be no (although I'm not an ST - just a mom). My

son started PROMPT therapy at around 29 months and had almost NO words. Our

Speech therapist almost exclusively used PROMPT with him, and he flourished. We

recently moved and, because we've seen such incredible results with PROMPT,

we've found another PROMPT therapist in our new city. So - he's been using

PROMPT therapy for 18 months and I really believe that it, along with fish oils

and the NutriiVeda supplement, have been the 3 best things we've done for him

You can check out video footage of his progress at our family apraxia blog

(www.apraxiastory.blogspot.com) I think I have some on there from before PROMPT,

then after. He is not on the severe end of the apraxia spectrum, but we've

still had our challenges and even with what was considered decently fast

progress, it still felt extremely slow.

Hate to hear the supplementation you've tried has not been working for you. And

sorry that I don't have perspective on the center you mention below. Just

wanted to share our PROMPT experience.

Sharon

mom to , almost 4, verbal apraxia)

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> Does a child have to have at least a good amount of words, approximations in

his repertoire in order for PROMPT to be appropraiate form of therapy?

>

> My son had better speech two years ago than he did last year or this year. He

had a lot of speech, PROMPT included. He has been on many biomed interventions,

with no gains. NV is our latest trial, two scoops daily for the last two

months...not seeing anything.

>

> Any ideas? Would love to hear!

>

> Thinking of getting eval from McCarton center, yet that money will take away

from speech therapy and OT. My son' s issues are slight, , no ASD, just severe

in the verbal apraxia...so wondering what McCarton could possibly say that we

aren't already doing. We have 20 evals from all sorts of docs and SLPs that say

" do as you are doing " .

>

> thank you, mom in need of advice,

> Ivy

>