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Success Story: Kamdyn & Vanessa

Kamdyn & Vanessa: Severe CAS Oral Motor Success Home › Blog › Success Story: Kamdyn & Vanessa Success Story Success Story: Kamdyn & Vanessa Therapist Vanessa Anderson-Smith revisits Kamdyn — a boy with severe Childhood Apraxia of Speech whose missed diagnosis and late OPT intervention still produced remarkable, rapid results. TT TalkTools Team TalkTools Blog […]

June 16, 2017 administrator Success Stories Comments (0) Details
Tags: APRAXIA, BITE TUBE HIERARCHY, BITE TUBE SET, BUBBLE BLOWING, BUBBLE HIERARCHY, BUBBLE KIT, CAS, CHILDHOOD APRAXIA OF SPEECH, EAR INFECTIONS, EARLY INTERVENTION, GUM CHEWING, HIERARCHICAL APPROACH, HIGH PALATEHORN BLOWING, HORN HIERARCHY, HORN KIT, JAW ASYMMETRY, JAW STABILITY, JAW STRENGTH, LIP ROUNDING, ORAL MOTOR EXERCISESORAL PLACEMENT EXERCISES, Oral Placement Therapy, REVERSE SWALLOW, SENSORY WARMUP, SEVERE APRAXIA, SLOW FEEDSPEECH EVALUATION, SPEECH PRODUCTION, STRAW DRINKING, STRAW HIERARCHY, STRAW KIT, THERAPY SUCCESS, TONGUE TIEVANESSA ANDERSON-SMITH, Z-VIBE

Success Story: Emma & Heather

Kamdyn & Vanessa: Severe CAS Oral Motor Success Home › Blog › Success Story: Kamdyn & Vanessa Success Story Success Story: Kamdyn & Vanessa Therapist Vanessa Anderson-Smith revisits Kamdyn — a boy with severe Childhood Apraxia of Speech whose missed diagnosis and late OPT intervention still produced remarkable, rapid results. TT Vanessa Anderson-Smith TalkTools Blog […]

May 24, 2017 administrator Success Stories Comments (0) Details
Tags: ADULT CLIENT, ADULT POPULATION, DOWN SYNDROME, HEATHER PETERSON, HEATHER VUKELICH, JAW WEAKNESS, LEVEL THERAPIST, OPTORAL PLACEMENT THERAPY, SPEECH CLARITY, SPEECH ISSUES, THERAPY SUCCESS, TONGUE MOVEMENT

TalkTools Sponsors a Multi-Disciplinary Trip to Ghana

Down syndrome speech clarity is possible at any age. Emma started TalkTools OPT therapy at 18 with severe jaw weakness, and by 24, her speech had transformed completely.

April 19, 2017 administrator Success Stories Comments (0) Details
Tags: AOTA, BONNIE NAKASUJI, FEEDING SKILLS, FEEDING THERAPY, GHANA, HORN HIERARCHY, JENNA KOBARA, MULTI-DISCIPLINARY TEAMOCCUPATIONAL THERAPY, OPT, Oral Placement Therapy, ORAL SENSORY INPUT, OT, SLOW FEED, SPECIAL NEEDS, SPEECH CLARITYSTRAW HIERARCHY, TALKTOOLS DONATION, TALKTOOLS MATERIALS, THERAPY ASSESSMENT, THERAPY SUCCESS, THERAPY TRIP, THIRD WORLD

Sharing the Gift of TalkTools with Those Living on Roatan, Honduras

TalkTools Honduras OPT Outreach: Serving Roatan Children Home › Blog › TalkTools Honduras OPT Outreach: Serving Roatan Children Global Outreach TalkTools OPT Outreach: Transforming Lives in Honduras TalkTools Honduras OPT outreach reached CATTLEYA school in Roatan when Kerry Tichi, MS CCC/SLP, used a TalkTools donation to assess, train, and equip over 30 children with disabilities. […]

March 20, 2017 administrator Success Stories Comments (0) Details
Tags: CATTLEYA, DOWN SYNDROME, FEEDING THERAPY, HONDURAS, HORN HIERARCHY, HORN THERAPY, KERRY TICHI, OPT, OPT ASSESSMENTORAL PLACEMENT THERAPY, ROATAN, SPECIAL NEEDS, SPEECH THERAPY, STRAW HIERARCHY, STRAW THERAPY, TALKTOOLS DONATIONTHERAPY ASSESSMENT, THERAPY SUCCESS, THIRD WORLD

Success Story: Lily & Vanessa

Diane Felton: TalkTools Transforms SLP Practice Home › Blog › Success Story: Diane Success Story Success Story: Diane Durham SLP Diane Felton shares how TalkTools and Sara Rosenfeld-Johnson’s guidance helped her transform her most challenging cases — including a nonverbal TBI teen and a premature triplet — into fully verbal individuals. TT Diane Felton, MA, […]

July 14, 2016 administrator Success Stories Comments (0) Details
Tags: ANDERSON-SMITH SPEECH THERAPY, CHEWY TUBES, CLEFT LIP, CLEFT LIP AND PALATE, CLEFT PALATEFEEDING THERAPY, JAW STRENGTH, LIP CLOSURE, MUSCLE AWARENESS, OPT, ORAL MOTOR EXERCISES, ORAL MOTOR SYSTEMORAL MOTOR THERAPY, ORAL MOTOR TRAINING ORAL PLACEMENT THERAPY, SENSORY SYSTEM, SENSORY WARM UP, SOUND PRODUCTIONSPECIAL NEEDS ADOPTION, SPEECH CLARITY, SPEECH PRODUCTION, SPEECH THERAPY STORY, SUCCESS STORIES, TALKTOOLS HIERARCHY, TALKTOOLS THERAPY, THERAPY STORY, THERAPY SUCCESS, TUBE FEEDING, VANESSA ANDERSON-SMITH

Success Story: Diane

TalkTools SLP Practice Transformation: Diane Felton’s Success Story Home › Blog › Success Story: Diane Success Story TalkTools SLP Practice Transformation: Diane Felton’s Success Story Durham SLP Diane Felton shares how TalkTools SLP practice transformation and Sara Rosenfeld-Johnson’s guidance helped her transform her most challenging cases — including a nonverbal TBI teen and a premature […]

June 23, 2016 administrator Success Stories Comments (0) Details
Tags: #ASHA15, AMERICAN SPEECH-LANGUAGE-HEARING ASSOCIATION, APRAXIA, APRAXIA OF SPEECH, ASHA, ASHA 2015 ASHA CONFERENCEASHA CONVENTION, CAROLINAS SPEECH THERAPY, CONTINUING EDUCATION, DIANE FELTON, DROOLING, FEEDING TOOLS, HEATHER PETERSONNORTH CAROLINA SPEECH THERAPIST, OPT, ORAL APRAXIA, ORAL MOTOR THERAPY, Oral Placement Therapy, ORAL-MOTORSARA ROSENFELD-JOHNSON, SPEECH CLARITY, SPEECH LANGUAGE PATHOLOGY, SPEECH RATE, SPEECH SPEED, SPEECH SUCCESSSPEECH SUCCESS STORY, SPEECH THERAPISTS, SPEECH TOOLS, SPEECH-LANGUAGE PATHOLOGISTS, SUCCESS STORIES, TALKTOOLSTALKTOOLS THERAPY, THERAPY PROGRESS, THERAPY SUCCESS, VERBAL APRAXIA

THE BEST GIFT FROM ELIZABETH

As our journey continued, I was able to revisit the “to do” category of a preschool for Elizabeth.  We initially had tried a preschool in our area that had half typical developing children and half special needs children attending.   We had thought it would be a nice fit for Elizabeth as she would get OT […]

November 15, 2014 administrator Elizabeth's Journey Comments (0) Details
Tags: CHILD WITH SPECIAL NEEDS, DYSPRAXIA, ELIZABETH'S MONTHLY UPDATES, FEEDING, FEEDING THERAPY, ORAL MOTOR EXERCISESORAL MOTOR THERAPY, Oral Placement Therapy, ORAL STIMULATION, SENSORY PROCESSING DISORDER, SPD, SPEECH DELAYSPEECH IMPROVEMENT, SPEECH THERAPY, TALKTOOLS, THERAPY SUCCESS