References and resources organized by intervention

(Resources marked with a • indicate websites)

Brookes Coffee Chat on Interventions for childhood apraxia of speech

Rebecca J. McCauley, Ph.D., CCC-SLP

General American Speech-Language-Hearing Association. (2007). Childhood apraxia of speech [Technical Report]. Available from www.asha.org/policy/.

• Apraxia Kids A nonprofit organization seeking to strengthen the support systems for children with CAS. Its website is apraxia-kids.org and it contains numerous resources for parents and clinicians that have been vetted by a very active professional advisory board comprised of a variety of expert researchers and clinicians. Baker, E., McCauley, R. J., Williams, A. L., & McLeod, S. (2020). Elements in phonological intervention: A comparison of three approaches using the Phonological Intervention Taxonomy. In E. Babatsouli & M. J. Ball (Eds.) On under-reported monolingual child phonology (pp. 375-399). Bristol, UK: Multilingual Matters
• Childhood Apraxia Treatment https://www.childapraxiatreatment.org/ Provides information about DTTC, ReST, Nuffield Dyspraxia Program and Integrated Phonological Awareness Intervention for CAS. Murray, E., McCabe, P., & Ballard, K. J. (2014). A systematic review of treatment outcomes for children with childhood apraxia of speech. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 23, 486-504. Williams, A. L., McLeod, S. & McCauley, R. J. (2021). Interventions for speech sound disorders (2nd edition). Baltimore, MD: Brookes Publishing.

Dynamic Temporal and Tactile Cueing (Edythe Strand)

• • Youtube video materials developed at the Mayo clinic for sharing with parents of children with CAS: http://bcove.me/7ydizdoc
• • Once Upon a Time Foundation: https://www.childapraxiatreatment.org/dttc/ Provides videos and information about free workshops for DTTC. Strand, E. A. (2020). Dynamic temporal and tactile cueing: A treatment strategy for childhood apraxia of speech. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1044/2019_AJSLP-19-0005
  Strand, E. A. (2021). Dynamic temporal and tactile cueing. In A. L. Williams, S. McLeod & R. J. McCauley (Eds.), Interventions for speech sound disorders (pp. 537-572). Baltimore, MD: Brookes Publishing.

Nuffield Centre Dyspraxia Programme (Pam Williams)

• Murray, E., McCabe, P., & Ballard, K. J. (2015). A randomized controlled trial for children with childhood apraxia of speech comparing Rapid Syllable Transition Treatment and the Nuffield Dyspraxia Program (3rd edition), Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 58(3), 669-686.
• • https://www.ndp3.org/nuffield-centre/ Provides information about the intervention, the manual, and a computer/iPad application. Williams, P. (2021). The Nuffield Centre Dyspraxia Programme. In Williams, S. McLeod & R. J. McCauley (Eds.), Interventions for speech sound disorders (pp. 447-476). Baltimore, MD: Brookes Publishing.
  Williams, P. & Stephens, H. (2004). NDP3 therapy manual from The Nuffield Centre Dyspraxia Programme (3rd ed.). Windsor, England: The Miracle Factory

PROMPT (Hayden et al.)

• Hayden, D. A. (2006). The PROMPT model: Use and application for children with mixed phonological-motor impairment. Advances in Speech-Language Pathology, 8(3), 265–281. Hayden, D. A., Namasivayam, A. K., R. Ward, A. Clark, & J. Eigen (2021). The PROMPT approach In A. L. Williams, S. McLeod & R. J. McCauley (Eds.), Interventions for speech sound disorders (pp. 477-504). Baltimore, MD: Brookes Publishing. Rogers, S. J., Hayden, D., Hepburn, S., Charlifue-Smith, R., Hall, T., & Hayes, A. (2006). Teaching young nonverbal children with autism useful speech: A pilot study of the Denver Model and PROMPT interventions. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 36(8), 1007–1024.
  • • The Prompt Institute Contains information about workshops, including self-paced online modules.

Speech Motor programming intervention - TEMPO/ReST (TEMPO: Ballard & Robin and ReST: others including McCabe and Murray)

• Ballard, K., & Robin, D. A. (2021). Speech motor programming Intervention. In A. L. Williams, S. McLeod & R. J. McCauley (Eds.), Interventions for speech sound disorders (pp. 505-536). Baltimore, MD: Brookes Publishing.
  McCabe, P., MacDonald-D’Silva, A., van Rees, L., Ballard, K. J., & Arciuli, J. A. (2014). Orthographically sensitive treatment for dysprosody in children with childhood apraxia of speech using ReST intervention. Developmental Neurorehabilitation, 17(2), 137-146. Miller, H., Plante, A., Ballard, K. J., & Robin, D. A. (2018). Treatment of lexical stress, segmentation, and sound distortions in childhood apraxia of speech. Poster presented at the International Motor Speech Conference, Savannah, GA, USA. Murray, E., McCabe, P., & Ballard, K. J. (2015). A randomized controlled trial for children with childhood apraxia of speech comparing Rapid Syllable Transition Treatment and the Nuffield Dyspraxia Program (3rd edition), Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 58(3), 669-686.
  • • Rapid Syllable Transition Treatment website at the University of Sydney https://rest.sydney.edu.au/. This website provides a variety of materials and a manual for use with this intervention.