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Resource Type: Kits
**Kaufman Speech Praxis Treatment Kit : Kaufman, Nancy R. CCC/SLP
Basic Level
This is the treatment kit, not the test. See Kaufman Speech Praxis Test Kit for Assessment.
KIT DESCRIPTION:
Children with apraxia of speech are not capable of initiating sound
sequences necessary to produce normal speech. This occurs because of a breakdown in the ability to coordinate
the oral-motor movements necessary to produce and combine phonemes to form words, even though there is no
evidence of oral paresis or paralysis as a primary impairment. Without guidance these children often stop
attempting to speak or verbalize patterns at rudimentary levels below that of which they are capable. This can
delay progress and can cause unnecessary frustration for the child, parents, and educators.
This treatment method explains in a systematic way how to simplify words, making it easier for children to
communicate. Phonological processes are used and explained, as a systematic method of enabling the user to
develop verbal stimuli (successive approximations toward target words) that match the child’s current ability to
initiate phonemes. As the child’s ability to produce more complex phoneme patterns improves more appropriate
successive approximation patterns can be introduced, keeping the child’s ability to speak at its maximum level.
This unique material (manual and approximately 200 stimulus picture cards) helps the clinician determine why a
word is difficult for a child to produce and how to change the stimulus to meet the motoric needs of the child. For
example, the voiceless phoneme in the word "pony" may need to be voiced (bou-ni); or the medial consonant
may need to be more gross or visible (dentalize the /n/) or may need to be deleted (po-i). These picture stimuli
are appropriate for any articulatory or phonological impairment as well.
If the child cannot produce all of the phonemes in simple bisyllabics (C1V1C2V2), the user is able to choose a
variety of appropriate stimulus materials from this section of the treatment kit. Other treatment categories include:
VC --------------Vowel-Consonant (initial consonant deletion)
CV --------------Consonant-Vowel (final consonant deletion)
CVCV ------------Repetitive syllables
CVC -------------Simple assimilation
CVC -------------Bilabial assimilation
CVC -------------Tip alveolar assimilation
CV1CV2 ----------Repetitive syllables with vowel change
CVCVCV ----------Simple polysyllabics
C1V1C2V2 --------Simple polysyllabics plus CVC
-----------------• (m) synthesis
-----------------• (b) synthesis
-----------------• (d) synthesis
-----------------• (h) synthesis
-----------------• (n) synthesis
-----------------• (w) synthesis
794 .399 KAU
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