When does PROMPT work? When is it appropriate type of therapy?

January 20, 2011

Hi. How fast should we see PROMPT work if done with certified SLP, with awesome

reputation?

My son has been in speech therapy since he was 21 months old. He is 3.5yrs old

now. He has gotten various methods of speech. 320 hours of speech therapy to be

exact, to date. He is age appropriate in listening,attention, social, play

skills. He loves therapy and his therapists. We have had to change a few times

DX is verbal apraxia, mod to severe by several SLP evals amd global apraxia, esp

sign language is difficult for him. No autism.

He got speech 4-6 x a week until now. Actually, his first slp was PROMPT trained

and my son was moving ahead, so i thought. Yet, since then, she quit EI and we

have been using quite a few PROMPT-nearly certified SLPs. We have always done

private speech on top of the EI.

Since my son has regressed with speech, i am wondering if PROMPT is not

something he may have been ready for. BUT then i thought, maybe we didn' t give

PROMPT a total try, since these SLPs were not certified, so that is why we now

see the cert one and then another one who does Beckman and is rounded in many

different methods. We also did talk tools in the past.

Nowadays has no spontaneous daily consistant words except buh buh..sometimes a

closer bye bye. He used to have much more spontaneous words and popouts..and

even better approximations. Even the popout words are not around as much as

before, you know, those clear lovely wows. We have started working with a

wonderful certified PROMPT therapist 2x a week, yet i do not want to continue if

that is not what he needs.

I know, you may tell me to ask our private speech therapist..well i have and

have heard it all. Last year we worked one SLP and she said PROMPT is not for

him.Yet, she wasn't certified, and i felt she didn't want us to leave her. Then

the PROMPT therapists will say it will definately help him.

I don't know how to help my son..i want to give him what is going to help. We

have limited money and cannot do speech nonstop...

Thank you for helping me out,

Ivy

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