While working with one of my kiddos with CAS this past week, I improvised a fun way to incorporate prosody into our lesson. Since it’s around Halloween, we said his target words in different voices like our ghost voice, monster voice, or vampire voice! I decided to make a game that would work really anytime of year to work on prosody. Say it like a Costume Character has 2
Since Childhood Apraxia of Speech requires a different approach to treatment, principles of motor learning theory need to be driving therapy. You can read more about this in my two interviews: Sharon Gretz interview and Ruth Stoeckel Interview Since getting 100-200 reps per session can be tedious and difficult to keep new and fresh, I came up with this fun Halloween game to play while you work on the child’s target sounds.
Speech therapy for apraxia requires a motor based treatment approach that works up through a hierarchy of syllable shapes with lots of repetition, repetition, repetition. Unfortunately, repeating the same syllable shapes is limiting and many times boring. I decided to create some BINGO game sheets that can be used, starting with the CV syllable shape. Look for more to come if you’re interested! CV BINGO