"Unbabbled" Podcast Features Nancy Kaufman

Nancy Kaufman was a guest on Unbabbled, a podcast from The Parish School, a Houston, TX school that focuses on communication skills, social learning, and independence. During their chat, Nancy explained the unique characteristics of childhood apraxia of speech, while discussing her treatment approach and steps parents can take toward diagnosis and treatment.

About Unbabbled:

Navigating the world of special education, communication delays and learning differences can be a challenge. Tune in twice a month to hear Stephanie Landis and Meredith Krimmel, two speech-language pathologists at The Parish School, interview guests from parents to industry professionals with the goal of providing guidance, insight and hope to those touched by children who are differently wired. Each episode will cover a different topic related to education or child development. Whether you’re the parent or caregiver of a neurodiverse child who has autism, a speech-language delay or a learning disability, or you’re an educator who works with special needs children, this podcast is for you.

Listen to Nancy on the "Speech & Language Kids" Podcast

Nancy spoke with Carrie Clark, founder of the Speech & Language Kids website and podcast, about childhood apraxia of speech. Some of the topics they covered included:

  • The successive approximations approach for apraxia treatment
  • How much therapy children with CAS need
  • The importance of home practice for childhood apraxia of speech treatment
  • How to choose words to work on
  • Why traditional speech therapy methods don’t work for children with CAS (and what to do instead)
  • Therapy sessions for children at the single-word level
  • Therapy for older children with apraxia
  • When to work on prosody with children with apraxia
  • How augmentative/alternative communication plays into therapy

About Speech and Language Kids:

Speech and Language kids was founded by Carrie Clark, a speech therapist located in Columbia, Missouri. Her site offers lots of speech activities and breaks down the current research into easy-to-follow plans.

Nancy Kaufman on the Yvonne Pierre Show

Nancy was interviewed on the Yvonne Pierre podcast. Yvonne features topics that uplift, inspire, and inform women and parents with special needs children.

About "The Yvonne Pierre Show"

"The Yvonne Pierre Show" was an inspirational and informative talk radio show with amazing guests who joined Yvonne in a one-on-one conversation to share their stories, tips, and advice on a range of topics from parenting, personal growth to business. The mission of the show was to inform, inspire and uplift. The show ran 101 episodes from November 2007 through December 2013. It was listed as one of the most inspirational shows on BTR in 2009. The shows producer/host, Yvonne Pierre is an advocate, writer, producer, and proud mom of two sons. Her youngest was diagnosed with Down syndrome and she began advocating through various projects in 2005. 

Antoine's Story

The Mallard family brought their son from Switzerland to work with Nancy!

Jessica's Story

Now an adult, Jessica remembers working with Nancy Kaufman as a child.

Elizabeth's Story

Gretchen and her daughter Elizabeth visited the KCC several times. Here is their story.

SPEAK Program on WDIV Channel 4

The Speech Praxis Experience at Kaufman (SPEAK) program is profiled by Dr. Frank McGeorge on WDIV, channel 4 in Detroit. SPEAK is an intensive speech and language program with Nancy R. Kaufman, MA, CCC-SLP, featuring her Kaufman Speech to Language (K-SLP) methods.

Nancy Kaufman on Michigan Entrepreneur TV

Nancy R. Kaufman, Owner & Director of the KCC, speaks with Tara Kachaturoff on Michigan Entrepreneur Television.

K-SLP Mutt Family Total Language Builder

The Kaufman Mutt Family Total Language Builder is a playful, yet comprehensive therapy tool that has children actively engaged as the clinician targets receptive and expressive language development. The interactive, magnetic design will hold attention and the connectable scenes provide the clinician flexibility to control level of difficulty. This is an excellent resource to reinforce motor-speech coordination achieved with Kaufman Kit 1 and Workout Book.

The game cue cards direct the magnetic Mutt Family characters into one of 18 different target actions to build language skills, including vocabulary, simple word combinations, sentence building, following directions, auditory comprehension, receptive language, and early literacy practice. Also teach prepositions, pronouns, present progressives, pronoun possessive agreement, third-person singular, and past tense formulations. Clinician has flexibility to control focus and difficulty through use of a single scene piece, a grouping of scene pieces, or use the complete, 18-scene puzzle board.
Program includes 18 target actions on their own interconnecting scene pieces, Mutt Family character magnets, object magnets, prompt cards, instructional manual, and single scene stand. Ages 2 to 10. Made in the USA.

  • Builds receptive and expressive language skills.
  • Reinforces concepts learned from Kaufman Kit 1 and Workout Book.
  • Targets 18 different actions on connectable, magnetic scene pieces.
  • Holds attention through interactive activities and magnetic design.
  • Features magnetic Mutt Family characters and object magnets
    for children to manipulate.
  • Finished size is 21 x 30 inches.
  • Easel & white board not included.

Published by Northern Speech Services. 

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K-SLP Workout Book

After the kits, the workout book expands single words into phrases and sentences

Ideal follow up material after progress is made with the Kaufman Treatment Kits! The Kaufman Kits helped to shape syllables into words. Now use Workout Book to expand single words into phrases and sentences. These materials are reproducible allowing the SLP to create home programs.

Includes 16 reproducible motor-speech coordination workouts to stabilize the pronunciation of consonant-vowel combinations, and promote rapid development of expressive language skills while controlling for oral-motor difficulty. Building on Kaufman Kit 1, the activities feature familiar Mutt Family characters and focus on consonant-vowel combinations with /m, p, b, t, d, n, h/.

Each workout explains what skill is being targeted, how to perform the exercise, and specific help that is to be offered to the child. The straightforward style of this book allows parents/caregivers to reinforce the work done by the SLP. Ages 2 to 10. Made in the USA.
  • Develops expressive language skills.
  • Includes 16 motor-speech coordination workouts.
  • Next step in therapy after Kaufman Kit 1.
  • Reproducible content to create home programs.
  • Teaches cueing techniques for specific sounds.
  • Features familiar Mutt Family characters.
  • Holds attention with colorful and engaging story themes.

Published by Northern Speech Services.