The One Course You Need to Diagnose and Treat Childhood
Apraxia of Speech
Complete this course and be eligible to earn .8 ASHA CEUs.
You can learn to treat CAS effectively with just one course!
With this single, easy-to-understand course, you'll learn how to identify, diagnose, and treat Childhood Apraxia of Speech to see the highest rates of success with the children you work with.
GET EXCLUSIVE ACCESSWhat's Included In The Course
This course, along with the monthly live Zoom meetings, will give you the confidence to treat CAS with evidence based treatment. The lessons are short, easy to understand, and designed to fit into a busy schedule.
You'll get:
- 13 Easily Digestible Video Lessons
- 60 Video Therapy Demonstrations to Bring Each Technique to Life
- Monthly Mentorship via LIVE Zoom Sessions With Me to Answer All Your Questions and added PDH
- Access to Previously Recorded Zoom Meetings
- Links to Products & Resources to Help You in Your Therapy
- Many PDF Handouts to Guide You in Treatment & Share With Your Clients and a Comprehensive Handbook (see more below)
- You will receive .8 ASHA CEU's and a certificate of completion for 8 professional development hours, if the requirements listed in the frequently asked questions (at the bottom of this page) are met.
- You also have the ability to earn an additional bonus 4.5 professional development hours (not ASHA CEU's) for watching the recorded zoom sessions.
- You can earn a certificate of completion each month for LIVE professional development hours by joining the monthly Q and A session. No certificate is offered for watching the recorded zoom on the portal. These meetings are not offered for ASHA CEU's.
TREATMENT OF CHILDHOOD APRAXIA OF SPEECH; A PRACTICAL GUIDE
The Learning Objectives
SLP's will:
- Be able to identify the characteristics of suspected Childhood Apraxia of Speech in Early Intervention clients
- Be able to perform a motor speech assessment and make a differential diagnose of Childhood Apraxia of Speech from other speech sound disorders
- List and explain the four steps of DTTC hierarchy
- List and describe the 4 pre-cursors for apraxia therapy
- Describe the principles of motor learning and how to use them to practice your target words in therapy
- List the three types of multisensory cueing techniques and provide examples of how to use them to improve speech motor planning skills
- Be able to choose target words and phrases for all of your CAS clients from the pre-verbal stage to children who are verbal but have poor prosody and vowel errors.
- Describe 3 different categories of toy reinforcers for eliciting your target words
- Be able to describe why vowel errors occur, four key components of assessing vowels and 3 specific cueing techniques to remediate vowel errors.
- List 5 challenges that school age children with CAS face
- List 5 activities to work on phonological awareness to improve reading skills in children with CAS.
Plus you'll have access to monthly LIVE Zoom calls where I review cases and answer YOUR questions.
You will receive one hour of PDH if you attend the meeting LIVE
YES! SIGN ME UPA comprehensive handbook
The handbook contains a motor speech exam breakdown and templates to help you organize your assessment data effectively. This will make your report writing and treatment planning a breeze.
Forms for session notes with instructions on data collection and details on what information should be documented.
A summary of numerous course lessons is also provided for quick and easy reference.
“This handbook is incredible! It is easy to follow and it guides you through the evaluation and treatment for CAS. The data collection examples for session notes and probe testing are also so helpful”
Alehtea-SLP
“Obsessed with the new handbook” Jesse-SLP
Treatment of Childhood Apraxia of Speech; A Practical Guide
Lessons
LESSON 1
9 minutes
What is Childhood Apraxia of Speech?
Understanding CAS is a vital component in successful treatment. In this lesson, you will learn about different speech sound disorders, what CAS is, and how it affects children.
LESSON 2
41 minutes
Differential Diagnosis of CAS
CAS can often be confused with other speech sound disorders. In this lesson, you will learn the exact steps, tests, and methods to use in order to diagnose CAS.
LESSON 3
28 minutes
Treatment Approaches
In this lesson, you will learn the three evidence-based approaches for treating CAS, as well as suggestions for augmentative alternative communication during the process.
LESSON 4
52 minutes
Principles of Motor Learning
You will learn how to use principles of motor learning to structure your apraxia sessions.
LESSON 5
1 hour
Pre-cursors/Target Selection
In this lesson, you will learn the pre-cursors to CAS therapy, the guidelines for target selection, tips for eliciting repetition, and ideas for specific toys and books to use in treatment.
LESSON 6
38 minutes
Multisensory Cueing Techniques
In this lesson you will learn the backbone of CAS therapy: visual, auditory / verbal and tactile cueing with therapy video demonstrations for each.
LESSON 7
22 minutes
Feedback & Fading Cues
In this lesson, you'll learn how to incorporate feedback into your therapy, and how to gradually fade cues.
LESSON 8
1 hour 12 minutes
Vowels
Vowel distortions greatly impact intelligibility. In this lesson, you will learn how to asses and remediate vowel errors.
LESSON 9
28 minutes
Prosody &
Co-articulation
In this lesson, you'll learn how to help children develop appropriate skills surrounding prosody and co-articulation.
LESSON 10
16 minutes
Intrusive Schwa
In this lesson, you'll learn how to avoid modeling words with the intrusive schwa and how to eliminate the schwa.
LESSON 11
30 minutes
CAS and the School Age Child
Specific issues related to the school age population is discussed. In depth discussion of reading difficulties in children with CAS.
LESSON 12
1 hour 4 minutes
Suspected Childhood Apraxia of Speech in Early Intervention
Be confident identifying and diagnosing suspected childhood apraxia of speech in the early intervention population.
LESSON 13
23 minutes
Sound Cue Cards / Hand Cues
In this lesson I will give you an overview of my most frequently used hand cues and show you the sound cue cards that I use.
BONUS LESSON: Case Study
12 minutes
In this bonus lesson, I'll take you through an entire case from diagnosis through treatment, showing exactly what I did throughout.
This Course Is For You If...
- You have clients who aren't succeeding with traditional language-based therapy techniques
- You want to open your own CAS private practice but are worried you don't know enough
- You want to work with CAS clients but don't know where to start
- You've tried other CAS courses but found them too technical, without enough practical clinical information
LET ME INTRODUCE MYSELF
I'm Alonna Bondar
I am a PROMPT certified and DTTC trained, and listed on the Apraxia Kids directory. I am pediatric speech language pathologist with 25 years of experience. I specialize in apraxia and other speech sound disorders. I enjoy working with children with various diagnoses, especially those with down syndrome and autism.
Early on in my career as speech language pathologist, there were some children that were not making adequate progress utilizing a language based therapy approach. I began researching other treatment methods and realized that childhood apraxia of speech was the underlying issue. Therefore, these children needed a motor based speech approach.
Over the years I have worked with countless clients with CAS and trained dozens of SLPs. It became apparent that it was difficult for therapists to find a course that is easy to understand, engaging, and fully prepares them to work with CAS clients.
I am passionate about CAS education and my goal is to make the information around CAS easy to understand and implement, so you can start working with CAS clients immediately.
"The title of this course could not be more appropriate. Alonna has done a fantastic job of walking you through everything you need to know to ACTUALLY work with children who have CAS. She covers all aspects of CAS intervention - from assessment and identification to treatment and carryover! I have never taken such a comprehensive course on apraxia - and I have taken a lot of courses! I really love how she included SO MANY videos of actual therapy, so you can see what CAS therapy looks like."
-Suzanne Aldrich, SLP @playingspeech
“Alonna's course is exactly what I needed! I support so many autistic clients that are primarily non-speaking, I didn't even know where to begin! I absolutely LOVED how easily digestible the course was. She provided a ton of practical information that you can start to implement right away and I loved that she showed how you can support children with CAS using a ton of different cues-not just one! She had a ton of example videos of her therapy sessions, which added so much value to this course! I highly recommend this course for anyone who might be on the fence!”
Amy Zembriski, SLP @amyz.theslp
"I was blown away by this course! Alonna has a gift for giving over information in an engaging, practical and insightful manner. This phenomenal course was super informative, giving incredible ideas for therapy, realistic strategies for intervention and covered a wide range of issues and modalities for treatment. I learned a vast amount of knowledge that is being put into practice with my own clients and gained tremendously from Alonna's creative thinking and dynamic, flexible therapeutic process. Thank you for this comprehensive winner of a course!”
-Gitty C. - SLP