Kaufman Therapy

Kaufman Therapy is a treatment approach for children with apraxia of speech.  It assists children at attempting their best verbal approximation when they can't produce complete words.  Children are taught a core vocabulary and systematically improve more accurate productions of the words as their motor plan for each word progresses.
Lidcombe

The Lidcombe Program is a treatment for children who stutter.  It was developed in Australia in the mid-1980s and has been scientifically studied in Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom.

Parents are key to implementing a successful Lidcombe Program and do the treatment each day with their child.  By positively reinforcing and providing feedback to children when their speech is fluent and carefully implementing correction procedures when speech is dysfluent, speech fluency is shaped and progress is made. The speech-language pathologist works with the parents to ensure that the treatment is appropriate and effective.  The program is individualized for each child, based on his/her family, cultural vales and pattern of dysfluency.