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Articulation
Reading and Spelling
Reading and Spelling
Articulation refers to the ability to correctly produce speech sounds; it involves producing sounds in the beginning, middle, and end of words. Phonology refers to sound error patterns that may be found in children's speech but are no longer used over time.
Amanda Casey is PROMPT (Prompts for Restructuring Oral Muscular Phonetic Targets) Level I certified. PROMPT is an evidenced based treatment approach for children with apraxia of speech and helps increase the speech-sound production skills of children.
Reading and Spelling
Reading and Spelling
Reading and Spelling
Phonological awareness skills are the building blocks for reading and writing skills. Skills involved in phonological awareness include the ability to segment words into sounds, rhyming, deleting sounds from words, and more.
Amanda Casey is trained in the Lindamood Phoneme Sequencing® (LiPS®) Program which is an evidence based approach towards increasing phonological awareness skills (e.g., rhyming, segmenting sounds, etc.) which are the building blocks for reading and spelling skills.
Language
Reading and Spelling
Language
Expressive language refers to an individual's ability to communicate one's wants, needs, thoughts/feelings, or ideas to a listener; it involves vocabulary, grammatical development, and sentence structure.
Language comprehension, also known as receptive language, refers to the ability to understand what is spoken. Receptive language can include the ability to follow directions, comprehension of negatives, early basic concepts (e.g., in, on, top, below, etc.),
WH-questions, and understanding narratives.
Pragmatic (social) language skills refer to the understanding and appropriate use of verbal and nonverbal language within social contexts; they support communicative interactions, help children engage in social experiences, and facilitate social problem solving (Hendrix et al.,2013). Social-pragmatic skills include abilities such as: perspective taking, central coherence (or the ability to "see the big picture"), initiating and providing follow-up comments/questions, and appropriately responding to whole situations.