PROMPT Therapy

Today, Dougie started a new type of therapy. Our therapist recently took a training course in the PROMPT method and felt that Dougie would be a good candidate for it.

What Is PROMPT?

PROMPT - "Prompts for Restructuring Oral-Muscular Phonetic Targets" is a technique that uses tactile-kinesthetic articulatory cues (PROMPTs) on the jaw, face and under the chin, to develop or restructure speech production. The PROMPT-trained speech-language pathologist helps to manually guide articulators to help the child produce specific sounds or words. The clinician uses his/her hands to cue and stimulate articulatory movement, and at the same time helps the child eliminate any unnecessary movements.

When she brought him back, she was clearly very pleased with how the session went. She said Dougie responded exceptionally well. She gave me a few demonstrations of the progress they made. It was remarkable!! In tried getting a short video of Dougie doing it at home but the camera messed it up and then Dougie decided he was done making videos.



The only disadvantage to this therapy method is it is not something we can work at home. Parents are discouraged from "prompting" their children because the method is quite difficult and you can just get them confused. Having seen some of the methods used, I can see why they say that. We've asked our therapist for some advice on what we can do at home though.