PROMPT Therapy
Speech is movement made audible.
PROMPT is an acronym for Prompts for Restructuring Oral Muscular Phonetic Targets. A PROMPT therapist touches the client’s face, giving input to the jaw, lips and tongue and the underlying muscles, retraining the muscles to move correctly. PROMPT therapy is holistic. I systematically determine where the motor breakdown is occurring which helps me choose the highest priority treatment goals.
Why is PROMPT so effective?
- physical touch helps a child understand how to make the necessary motor movements better than verbal instruction
- a PROMPT therapist is trained to evaluate and prioritize which areas of motor control need to be addressed first.
- PROMPT addresses the reason a sound is said incorrectly. For example, if you can’t do sit-ups, the reason may be that you need to increase your body’s core strength. In the same way, if a child can’t say a sound, he or she may need to refine muscle movements.
- Refining muscle movements has a positive effect on many sounds, thus rather than correcting single sounds, with PROMPT therapy multiple sounds are corrected
Who will benefit from PROMPT?
PROMPT is ideal for working with young children. Older children may also benefit from PROMPT in conjunction with myofunctional therapy. PROMPT is used with a wide range of children and adults who have motor speech difficulties. Many clients with articulation disorders, apraxia, dysarthria, pervasive developmental disorders, cerebral palsy, autism, or not yet speaking (non-verbal) have benefited from PROMPT.
