PROMPT: Prompts for Restructuring Oral Muscular Phonetic Targets

Here at Therapyland our Speech Language Pathologists are trained in PROMPT. They frequently utilize this technique with the varying children they treat.  

PROMPT was developed by Deborah Hayden. She began manipulating the oro-motor structures to help adults and children with varying speech disorders to produce sounds that could be shaped for verbal interaction with others. PROMPT therapy is a physical-sensory approach that integrates all domains and systems toward effective communication outcome. Children with various disabilities such as: developmental delays, phonological impairments, apraxia of speech, speech disorders, Autistic Spectrum Disorders (ASD), hearing impairment, dysfluencies, etc., can benefit from PROMPT therapy. PROMPT may be used on all speech production disorders from approximately 6 months of age and up. By using this program it assists in developing motor skills in development of language for interaction - it has an emphasis on vowels, consonants and diphthongs through tactile cueing. 

For more information on PROMPT check out their website: PROMPT website