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Welcome to WATCH MY WORDS $39.95 $29.95 $16.95 “Supports Functional Communication Skill Development :Teaching Through Visual, Auditory, Movement, and Touch” BY Edith Bowlby, M.S., CCC-SLP, ASHA Certified Speech-Language Pathologist 1. SILLY SIGNING SONGS CD: A Fun Way to Teach Early Signs and Speech to Young Children with Special Speech Needs Songs have special games, sound play, and body movements to encourage speech, sign language, and social interactions between the child and adult. *For kids who are just learning to communicate and talk* 2. TALKING WITH MY ABC TOY BOX: A LANGUAGE BASED KINESTHETIC APPROACH SUPPORTING SPEECH SOUND AWARENESS AND PRODUCTION Kids can LOOK at the vowel and consonant chart as they WATCH the adult performing special hand motions made on or near the mouth for sounds. A CD presents songs that match a “silly” word with each sound, encouraging kids to LISTEN to how sounds are made, to SING along with ABC sounds and words, and to MOVE by doing the matching hand motions. *For kids who are already attempting to talk* FOR MORE PRODUCT INFORMATION 3. TALKING WITH THE ABC’s SPEECH KIT Using Visuals of Mouth movements, Fun photos, and Everyday Words Presented in Songs/Video to Support Functional Speech and Language Development Kids can WATCH and SING along as the DVD presents functional ABC words that are sung in a slow rhythmic pattern as the “mouth” shows kids how it moves to produce speech sounds. **Not recommended for children under three.** Continuous adult participation recommended. ** *For kids who are already attempting to talk*
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Hand presses on the
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WHY USE SIGN LANGUAGE? WHY USE MULTISENSORY INPUT?
 
 
 
WHY USE MUSIC?
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Working directly with a Speech Pathologist re: concerns about your child’s speech/language development is always advised!
The use of sign language has proven to enhance vocal output, reduce frustration, and provide differentiation for words that "sound the same" in the early course of treatment (for children with childhood apraxia of speech). -Retrieved August 24, 2010 from http://www.apraxia-kids.org, by David Hammer M.A., CCC-SLP, ( Childhood Apraxia of Speech Association of North Americahttp://www.apraxia-kids.orgshapeimage_40_link_0
There are a number of features of speech therapy that appear to be most successful to children with apraxia of speech.  These features include: • principles of “motor learning” such as a high degree of practice and repetition, correction and feedback, slowed rate, and a focus on targeted motor placement and productions • Increased sensory input for control of the movement sequences and sensory cueing such as visual, tactile, and kinesthetic cueing; touch cueing; verbal cueing. • use of rhythm and melody • focus on speech sequences versus individual sounds” Retrieved August 24, 2010 from http://www.apraxia-kids.org, Childhood Apraxia of Speech Association of North America http://www.apraxia-kids.orgshapeimage_41_link_0
“Selected verbal language and speech skills are enhanced through music activities in special education populations. Musical presentation of new vocabulary words results in an increased number of words learned and transferred in elementary school-age children. Music is effective as a prompt and reinforcer to increase verbal response in preschool-age children with limited verbal communication” (Used with permission by the American Music Therapy Association) The use of sign language, pictures, AAC systems, visual prompts, and touch cues have been described as being extremely effective for children with CAS (Childhood Apraxia of Speech), providing functional communication while at the same time supporting and enhancing verbal speech production. Retrieved August 24, 2010 from http://www.asha.org/docs/html/TR2007-00278.html#sec1.6 American Speech-Language-Hearing Association. (2007). Childhood Apraxia of Speech [Technical Report]. © Copyright 2007 American Speech-Language-Hearing Association. All rights reserved.