Speech
Prompts for Restructuring Oral Muscular Phonetic Targets (PROMPT)
PROMPT is a dynamic, tactile method of treatment for motor speech disorders. It helps reshape individual and connected articulatory phonemes and sequences (coarticulations) of phonemes. The program requires the clinicians to provide touch, pressure, and specific placements so that a child, or adult, 'learns' speech motor patterns necessary to produce the individual sounds correctly and then to produce them in target words, in phrases that extend in length, in sentences, and in conversational speech.
The program provides an excellent structure for:
- understanding and analyzing the development and organization of the speech-motor system;
- understanding and analyzing the connections between speech-motor and language systems;
- desiging, using, and evaluating a treatment program.
Using PROMPT, it is possible to determine:
- what is usable or functional in the motor-speech system;
- where motor-speech systems begin to break down; and
- where to begin treatment.
More detailed information about the program is available at the Prompt Institute website, www.promptinstitute.com.
Oral Motor Therapy—Sara Rosenfeld-Johnson
This program, comprised of steps in a hierarchy and a combination of excercises, is goal-directed and based on her Oral-Motor Developmental Sequence. The intervention begins with a diagnostic process from which baseline levels are determined and a plan with specific exercises and activities is developed. The exercises are designed to address muscle memory which consequently helps movements in speech production. For more information about the program, please visit the following website: www.talktools.net/site/webcontent/child_solutions/evaluations.htm
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