What is PROMPT?
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PROMPT (or Prompts for Restructuring Oral Muscular Phonetic Targets) is a tactile (hands-on) and kinesthetic (movement) based approach that is designed to cue a person’s articulators (muscles and structures used for speech – tongue, lips, jaw) and guide the production of sounds, words, phrases and sentences.
This technique allows the client to develop control over their articulators in order to increase accurate productions while eliminating unnecessary or incorrect motor movements.
PROMPT is a multidimensional approach that incorporates physical and motor aspects of speech production with cognitive-linguistic and social-emotional components as well.
Who can administer PROMPT therapy?
PROMPT is administered by registered speech-language pathologists who have completed additional training in PROMPT techniques.
How does it work?
- An assessment of motor and speech skills is completed by a Speech-Language Pathologist (SLP) to determine strengths and weaknesses and develop a treatment plan
- Therapy tasks are designed specific to the needs of the client
- For example, games and activities targeting lots of repetitions of early developing sounds
- Or, high level speech and language with real world practice, such as speaking on the phone
Who benefits from PROMPT?
- Children and adults
- Motor speech disorders
- Apraxia
- Articulation disorders
- Phonological disorders
- Non-verbal
- Aphasia
- Dysarthria
- Stuttering
- Learning disorders
- Cerebral palsy
- Acquired brain injury
- Autism spectrum disorder (ASD)
- Central auditory processing disorder (CAPD)
Here at Lear Communication we have two PROMPT Trained SLPs servicing the St. Catharines and Hamilton areas. If you are interested in learning more about PROMPT and think you may benefit from this approach, call 905-346-1008 (St. Catharines) or 905-667-1441 (Hamilton) or send an email to info@learcomm.ca to speak to a registered speech language pathologist.