by Keegan Warrington | Oct 23, 2020 | Articulation, Speech Therapy
Tongue Thrust is the frontal thrust or strong contact of the teeth during swallowing, in addition to inadequate lip closure, or incorrect lingual-mandibular resting posture. The most common characteristics of a tongue thrust swallow pattern include one or more of the... 
by Keegan Warrington | Oct 23, 2020 | Articulation, Early Intervention, Speech Therapy
PROMPT is a multidimensional approach to treat speech production disorders. PROMPT is an acronym for PROMPTS for Restructuring Oral Muscular Phonetic Targets and this approach incorporates the well-known physical-sensory aspects of motor performance with the... 
by Keegan Warrington | Oct 23, 2020 | Articulation, Early Intervention, Speech Therapy
1. How the Grinch Stole Christmas by Dr. Seuss: This holiday classic follows the Grinch, a grouchy, solitary creature who attempts to put an end to Christmas by stealing Christmas-themed items from the homes of the nearby town Whoville on Christmas Eve. Written in... by Keegan Warrington | Oct 23, 2020 | Articulation, Speech Therapy
PROMPT was developed in the 1970’s by Deborah Hayden, and has been refined over the past 30 years. Chatterboxes’ SLP’s are trained in PROMPT. Prior to beginning PROMPT, the Speech-Pathologist assesses the child’s motor speech system, in terms of structure, function... 
by Keegan Warrington | Oct 22, 2020 | Articulation
Once a child has started working with a Speech-Pathologist, and have shown some consistency in therapy, the child will be working on a target sound. The child will now need support outside of the therapy environment in order to produce that target sound correctly. You... 
by Keegan Warrington | Oct 22, 2020 | Articulation, Language Therapy
Understanding speech and language testing scores takes you back to the basics of statistics and the bell curve. Typically, speech-language testing scores are based on normative sampling in which test makers administer the test to a large group of children. Your... 