Speech and language therapy is
treatment for people who want to communicate better. They may
find it challenging to produce clear sounds (a speech disorder) or to
comprehend and put words together to express ideas (a language
disorder).
In speech and language therapy, we teach clients how to properly
pronounce challenging sounds; we lead them through exercises to better
understand and transmit ideas, both oral and written. We give
them healthier, gentler ways to speak and show them how to deal with
stuttering. We teach them to replace the accents and cadences of
their native languages with the pronunciations and rhythms of U.S.
English.
Speech and language pathologists like Alida screen, diagnose, treat,
and manage communications needs for people of all ages, toddlers to
seniors. Language is a cornerstone of everything we do, including
reading, writing, talking, and even gesturing. A delay or
breakdown in any one of these areas can adversely affect general
functioning and quality of life.
Stuttering Programs
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The Lidcombe Program.
The Lidcombe Program is an efficient, well researched, evidence-based program for treating
pre-school stuttering. Using Lidcombe, parents learn to respond
constructively to their children's speech to teach them how to speak
without stuttering.
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Speech Easy.
SpeechEasy is a fluency tool used to reduce stuttering and to help increase fluency.
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Programmed Therapy for Stuttering in Children and Adults (Ryan, 1974).
This program is an operant conditioning
program which seeks to establish fluent speech by eliminating
stuttering in a controlled environment (10 to 20 hours). The fluent
response is reinforced (positively and /or negatively) and the
stuttering behavior is discouraged. Once fluent speech has been
established in the treatment room transfer to various settings,
audiences is instituted (5 to 10 hours).
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Campertown Program.
Camperdown (CP) is a behavioral program for adults who stutter. Prolonged speech
is the treatment method used but no specific programmed instruction
such as, "use gentle onset" is provided to establish fluency or
transfer.
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Speech and Language & Voice Therapies
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Earobics.
Award-winning software that
teaches phonological processing and auditory processing skills that are
critical for reading and literacy success, Earobics® follows a
systematic approach and provides motivating and colorful interactive
games that help children forget they are doing work! (When
purchasing make sure to get the one for HOME-USE.)
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Fast ForWord®.
Family
of Programs, by Scientific Learning, is a family of computer software
programs which target the auditory processing and memory skills so
necessary for classroom success. The programs improve the
language skills of students with language-learning disabilities.
Based on over twenty-five years of brain research, Scientific
Learning's software uses patented technology to
strengthen brain processing efficiency widely recognized
as a key to all learning.
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Links to Language.
This program is authored by Marion
Blank, Ph.D., Laura McKirdy, Ph.D., CCC/SLP, & Pamela Payne, M.S.,
CCC/SLP, for children with language impairment, such as autism,
pervasive developmental disorder, aphasia, cognitive impairment. Links
is a highly structured and sequenced program that provides children
with the prerequisites for learning language. This program also
provides a receptive and expressive language acquisition protocol.
Children learn pre-verbal skills that are
designed to increase focused and sustained attention, memory,
sequencing, and the chunking of information.
Receptively: helps to improve following
directions skills, comprehension of basic concepts and answering
questions. Receptive language skills include recognition activities,
following from simple to complex directions, and answering fourteen
different types of question forms.
Expressively: Expand sentence length through
imitation with the use of small toys displayed in various vignettes.
Expressive language activities are also comprised of imitating
vignettes of increasing length and complexity, all of which are
demonstrated with small toy objects. Parent training and participation
with the child in a home program component are key to the success of
this program.
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Therapeutic Listening.
Therapeutic Listening® is an evidence-backed protocol that combines a
sound-based intervention with sensory integrative activities to create
a comprehensive program that is effective for diverse populations with
sensory challenges.
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Visualizing and Verbalizing®.
for Language Comprehension and Thinking (V/V®) by Nanci Bell.
The program applies concept imagery to reading
comprehension, oral language comprehension, following directions,
higher order thinking skills, expressive language and writing. CSL is not associated with - and does not mean to imply any affiliation with - Linwood Bell and/or Nanci Bell.
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Lessac-Based Resonant Voice Treatment.
Received training in Lessac-Based Resonant voice from Katherine Verdolini, Ph.D., CCC-SLP.
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Fight Your Fear.
A cutting edge program developed by Don Greene
that applies sports psychology and techniques to executive stress and
performing arts.
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Accent Reduction
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LDS & Associates.
Lorna Sikorski's accent training.
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David Alan Stern's "The Sound and Style of American English"
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"Psycholinguistic Aspects of Foreign Accents," by Daniel P. Dato |
Articulation and Oral-Motor
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Kaufman Speech Praxis.
Treatment for Childhood Apraxia of Speech -
a breakdown of the nervous signals that direct the speech-producing muscles. |
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Moving Through Syllables.
We assess and train sequencing skills within and across syllables
with children 3 to 10 years.
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Prompt.
(Prompts for Restructuring Oral Muscular Phonetic Targets).
A method for using gestures and touch to help habituate children to better controlled mouth,
tongue, and jaw movement to improve articulation. |
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R in the Car CD.
Fun sing-along songs to help teach the R sound.
read our reviews and
see song
samples and support tools |
