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  • Brain plasticity changes in children receiving PROMPT therapy for children with idiopathic apraxia of speech!

    Brain plasticity changes in children receiving PROMPT therapy for children with idiopathic apraxia of speech!

    A research article in Brain Topography: A Journal of Cerebral and Dynamics, has a published a new study that demonstrates actual brain plasticity in the brains of children diagnosed with idiopathic apraxia of speech after undergoing intense PROMPT training.  According to the article, it’s the first study of it’s kind to demonstrate “experience dependent structural plasticity in children receiving therapy for speech sound disorders.

    I’ve been waiting for this kind of functional MRI proof for speech sound disorders.  I’ve seen the brain imaging changes in kids with dyslexia, and I knew the research for speech sound disorders would be just around the corner.  It’s exciting to see scientific proof that therapy works!

    Click on the link below to read the full article.

    Cortical thickness in children receiving intensive therapy for idiopathic apraxia of speech

  • How to teach toddlers their colors, interesting article I found on pinterest.

    How to teach toddlers their colors, interesting article I found on pinterest.

    http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=why-johnny-name-colors

    On pinterest, I ran across this interesting article.  It basically says that children learn their colors faster by saying “the balloon is read” instead of “the red balloon.”  In English, we usually put the adjective before the noun, so our kiddos don’t get a lot of practice with learning it this way.

    I thought it was interesting from an SLP standpoint too though, because many language processing kiddos struggle with describing activities anyway.  In therapy, we do exactly this.  We sort items and then say “the puppy is little, the elephant is big etc.  Only after they get the concept, can they start practicing putting the adjective in front of the noun.  Makes sense for learning colors too.