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Now Hiring Speech Therapist!

Kidzspeech, LLC is looking for a knowledgeable pediatric speech pathologist interested in working with a wide variety of children in a fantastic, fun environment. Schedule is flexible. Prefer afternoons and/or weekends. Please send your resume to kirstencerroni@kidzspeechllc.com

Specialty Training and Certifications:

 

Kidzspeech is committed to continuing education. Along with a strong base of knowledge in the evaluation and treatment of pediatric clients, further higher-level specialty trainings have been pursued to provide the optimal intervention for your child.

Recent Continuing Education Activity:

"The Structure of Written English", given by Lexericse, completed in 2011.

Word Finding Graduate Level Course, 2 credits. Given by Diane German, through National Louis University. Completed Summer of 2011.

"Motivating Children with Autism to Speak: Incorporating ABA Principles to Build Functional Communication", by Tamara Kasper. October 2011.

"Children with Co-Existing ADHD, Language Processing, and Sensory-Motor Challenges", by Carol Kauffman, MA/CCC-SLP. August, 2011.

Advanced Therapeutic Listening

Therapeutic Listening® is an evidence-backed protocol that combines a sound-based intervention with sensory integrative activities to create a comprehensive program that is effective for diverse populations with sensory challenges. Auditory information from the Therapeutic Listening CDs provides direct input to both the vestibular and the auditory systems. Therapeutic Listening can impact sensory modulation, attention, behavior, postural organization, and speech and language difficulties. Therapeutic Listening was developed by Sheila M. Frick, OTR, and incorporates the ideas and technology created by Alfred Tomatis, Guy Berard, and Ingo Steinbach into a sensory integrative frame of reference. Trained therapists learn to use modulated CDs to set up programs for clients in homes, schools and clinics. For more information, please visit the Vital Links website.

 

PROMPT

The PROMPT system is an evidenced-based method of treatment for speech production disorders, including apraxia of speech, developed by Deborah Hayden, MS, CCC-SLP. PROMPT stands for Prompts for Restructuring Oral Muscular Phonetic Targets. It is a technique that embodies neuromotor principles, somesthetic (kinesthetic and proprioceptive), auditory and visual information to provide feedback to the speech system. The PROMPT clinician provides input using touch, pressure, specific placements, auditory and visual cues, and timing to prompt the production for each English phoneme (sound), to assist with reshaping individual and connected sound movement sequences. For more information, please visit the PROMPT Institute.

 

Beckman Oral Motor Intervention and Assessment 

Adequate oral motor skills are essential for normal feeding, swallowing and clear speech. Debra Beckman developed an assessment, the Beckman Oral Motor Protocol, and interventions to provide assisted movement to activate the contraction of oral musculature and to provide movement against resistance to build strength. The focus of intervention is to increase functional response to pressure and movement, range, strength, variety and control of movement for the lips, cheeks, jaw and tongue. The intervention is useful with a variety of ages and diagnostic categories. For more information, please visit the Beckman Oral Motor Website.

 

SRJ Oral Motor Therapy (Talk Tools)

Oral motor techniques developed by Sara Rosenfeld-Johnson, MS,CCC-SLP utilize a tactile-sensory approach to oral motor-based speech and language disorders. These techniques are aimed at improving phonation, resonation, and speech clarity as well as addressing physiological and motor-based articulation disorders. For more information, please visit the TalkTools Website. 

 

Fast ForWord

The Fast ForWord program develops and strengthens memory, attention, processing rate, and sequencing—the cognitive skills essential for reading intervention program success. The strengthening of these skills results in a wide range of improved critical language and reading skills such as phonological awareness, phonemic awareness, fluency, vocabulary, comprehension, decoding, working memory, syntax, grammar, and other skills necessary to learn how to read or to become a better reader. The Fast ForWord program is a computer-based program that is completed at an intense frequency (minimum 5 days per week) for between 4-12 weeks per program.

 

Lexercise

Lexercise is a clinician-supervised Web-based learning tool for children ages 6 to 16 with language-literacy disorders. Lexercise is an interactive Web-based platform that allows the clinician to customize and monitor research-based treatment exercises that have all the motivational appeal of flash-based games. Click here for more information on this fabulous tool.