Speech Motor Exercises

Speech Motor Exercises: Applying Motor Learning Principles to Stuttering and Apraxia

Speech Motor Exercises presents a practical and innovative program that combines new components from two established stuttering treatment programs. David Daly’s systematic, deliberately phonated meaningful speech material has been combined with Glyndon and Jeanna Riley’s research-based, non-meaningful syllable drills to form a dynamic new program that is fun for clients and satisfying for clinicians and parents.

The combination of these two approaches results in a more effective treatment program than either produces separately. This “cross training” approach results in greater fluency and better maintenance of fluency, while providing a systematic method for addressing prevention of stuttering in young children.

Athough originally designed for use with clients who stutter, clinicians have found that these new exercises work very well as auxiliaries to contemporary therapeutic approaches for many communication disorders. This program can result in greater success for clients who present articulation, apraxia, and cluttering disorders. Clients experiencepositive and measurable improvements in fluency skills while seeming to work less.

The program includes home practice materials that will encourage carryover. These are especially useful for younger clients who have mastered some drill-sets but would benefit from practice between sessions. Clinicians can also copy a page or two at a time for addtional home practice. Target Group: Young children.