Becoming Verbal and Intelligible

Description

 – A Functional Motor Programming Approach for Children With Developmental Verbal Apraxia

Using this manual, you can help children, ages 2 through 10 years, who are nonverbal or highly unintelligible due to developmental verbal apraxia and other articulation, phonological, or motor speech disorders.

Therapy practice is organized so that syllable structures gradually increase in length and complexity. Emphasis is placed on teaching functional spoken language through imitation and is reinforced with signs and pictures illustrated in the manual. The authors use a functional motor programming approach to therapy because it is undertaken in a naturalistic and practical environment.

By using this approach, your clients will gain:

• Improved motor planning ability
• A feeling of success
• The ability to generalize skills
• An increased desire and ability to communicate

With this resource, you will receive:

• 280 pages of reproducible picture stimuli organized by syllable structure, target sound, and type of transition
• Informative handouts for parents