Hi Teaching of Talking Friend,
Many of you may not have read this article which confirms the fact that caregivers can be trained to provide speech and language stimulation
at home which has a significant positive affect on speaking improvement. The fact that a caregiver or family member can stimulate speech and language throughout the day, 24/7/365 greatly enhanses the results of therapy done in hospitals, rehab. centers and private offices, not to mention school systems that provide services to special needs children. More and more student speech language pathologists and professionals today are receiving training in how to teach
caregivers to provide speech and language stimulation at home. I can not tell you how much better progress can be when caregivers learn how to stimulate speech and language in a relaxed, non threatening, and conversational manner.
I hope you are receiving training in speech and language stimulation if you are a caregiver. If you are not, then
please find a way to learn. There is such great opportunity to stimulate speech and language at home. That's where life takes place for many of us. That is where speaking can be stimulated and practiced without fear or performance anxiety. It also gives the caregiver and the adult or child opportuities to speak with one another. Often, for many, there is little speaking at home, when methods of stimulation are not known or practiced.
We firmly believe that speaking is what most adults and children want, in addition to their caregivers and families.
You can learn to stimulate speech and language like a seasoned professional with over 40 years of everyday experience helping adults and children speak better.
Please read this article about the current research that indicates how important it is for caregivers to stimulate speech and language at home, for as long as necessary, especially vital when insurance providers are cutting back on the number of speech therapy visits offered to its members.
We are now at a University in Southern California
teaching graduate students speech language pathology methods for those with aphasia while also pursuing research comparing the results of traditional therapies with little to no caregiver training to those performed at the clinic while caregivers are simultaneously trained in the Teaching of Talking Method which trains caregivers to do expert speech and language stimulation at home during most daily activities.
There have been many
studies recently that are pointing to the greatly improved results that are possible when a caregiver is trained with methods they can employ throughout the day in normal interactions.
Taylor and Shields in a review of current research found that caregivers are an excellent resource to assist in the delivery of increased amounts of speech therapy, provided they are skilled enough to do so.
When comparing speech therapy provided by therapists to therapy given by caregivers who were given training in speech and language stimulation methods, results indicated that therapy provided by a therapist for a few times a week was not superior to parent or caregiver administered therapy at home.
(Lawler, K., Taylor, N., & Shields, N. (2013) Outcomes After Caregiver-Provided
Speech and Language or Other Allied Health Therapy; Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, 94 (6), pp.1139
The results of the Lawler and Taylor review indicated that with adequate training and support, caregivers can provide effective speech and language stimulation with adults and children.
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Moshe Mark
Moshe Mark Ittleman, M.S., CCC/SLP
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