PROMPT®
Every parent eagerly waits to hear their child’s first words. However, many children and their families find the process of learning to speak difficult and frustrating.
Are you concerned about your child’s ability to communicate? PROMPT® may be the answer to helping your child successfully communicate with family, friends, and teachers.
What is PROMPT®?
Prompts for Restructuring Oral Muscular Phonetic Targets (PROMPT®) was developed by, speech-language pathologist, Deborah Hayden.
PROMPT® is a system designed to help children organize, plan, and execute speech sounds, words, phrases, and sentences. This is accomplished by providing sensory-motor, tactile-kinesthetic, auditory, and visual input. It is a holistic system. The system evaluates and uses cognitive, social, behavioral, emotional, sensory-motor, and physical domains to maximize a child’s ability to communicate.
How does PROMPT® work?
The therapist places her hands strategically on the child’s face, mouth, jaw, and neck. This gives input to all areas of speech production by using touch, pressure, specific placements, timing, and by creating auditory and visual awareness. Treatment begins at the child’s level of functioning (i.e. syllables, words, phrases, or sentences) and progresses in a functional and systematic fashion.
Would my child be a candidate for the program?
If your child displays any of the following he may benefit from PROMPT®:
Who should decide if my child would benefit from the program?
A speech-language pathologist specially trained in the application of PROMPT® should evaluate your child.
What will the program be like?
An individualized program will be developed for your child. Emphasis is placed on establishing rapport and trust between your child and the therapist before any prompting begins. The program will require your child to produce target syllables, words, phrases, and/or sentences. The therapist provides external physical cues and support at the lips, cheeks, jaw, and neck area. Because the final goal of treatment is functional, independent communication, prompts will be used only when your child needs them to produce the target sound, word or sentence.
How long does the program last?
It depends on many factors including your child’s current level of function and ability to show improvement in all areas involved in oral communication. These include cognitive, social and pragmatic skills as well as behavioral, emotional, sensory-motor and physical abilities. Your child’s program is designed to achieve success in the shortest time possible.
How do I get more information about PROMPT®?
Contact Rachel Weir:
757-490-3223
rweir@rehabilitationassociates.com
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