Pro-ed The Source for Childhood Apraxia of Speech by Robin Strode Downing, Catherine E. Chamberlain - 31710

Pro-ed The Source for Childhood Apraxia of Speech

Ages: 2-12Grades: Toddler-7

Evaluate and treat childhood apraxia of speech (CAS) using principles of motor learning with an emphasis on speech movements and syllable shapes.

The authors have combined their years of practical experience with current research to give you a handbook on childhood apraxia of speech (CAS) that tells you how to:

evaluate and differentially diagnose CAS
treat CAS based on its unique characteristics
develop basic communicationlearning skills such as joint attention and interaction, turn-taking, imitation, on-task behavior, and increasing vocalizations and verbalizations
progress clients through eight levels of intervention to develop intelligble speech
incorporate prosody and language goals into every level of therapy
provide effective multisensory cues

An eight-level hierarchy of speech tasks emphasizes speech movements and sound sequences based on principles of motor learning:

Level 1: Stabilize existing vowels and consonant sounds
Level 2: Sequence established vowels and consonants in CV and VC syllables
Level 3: Teach new vowel and consonant sounds
Level 4: Produce CVCV and VCVC syllable sequences (emphasis on using established CV and VC syllables from Level 2)
Level 5: Close established CV and VC syllables with an established consonant sound to produce CVC words
Level 6: Produce multisyllabic words from stabilized sounds, syllables, and CVC words
Level 7: Produce consonant clusters and blends in words
Level 8: Produce phrases and sentences (sequencing syllables to form phrases and sentences begins as early as level 2)

Extra helps include:

specific therapy techniques outlined step-by-step with visual helps
informal evaluation tools
reproducible lesson pages and pictures
tracking chart
pictures and directions for consonant hand signals
techniques to facilitate correct consonant sound production
ideas for making fun practice materials

183-pages • 8.5 x 11, softcover book with additional reproducible pages (evaluation tools, forms, therapy activities) • ©2006