Jessica's Story
Now an adult, Jessica remembers working with Nancy Kaufman as a child.
Now an adult, Jessica remembers working with Nancy Kaufman as a child.
Gretchen and her daughter Elizabeth visited the KCC several times. Here is their story.
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 R. Kaufman, Owner & Director of the KCC, speaks with Tara Kachaturoff on Michigan Entrepreneur Television.
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.
Published by Northern Speech Services.
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.
Published by Northern Speech Services.
This highly effective approach builds intelligibility through a hierarchy of successive “word shell” approximations based on least physiological effort of target words. The clinician also is able to introduce more complex phoneme patterns as the child’s ability improves, thus maintaining the child’s ability to speak at his or her maximum level.
Kit 2 refines intelligibility for children who have mastered sounds in Kaufman Kit 1 (p, b, m, t, d, n, h, w). Advanced level Kit 2 then works to refine articulation and build higher motor-speech coordination. Kit 2 uses familiar two and three-syllable words to target more complicated motor-speech movements and synthesis into initial and final word positions. Kit 2 targets synthesis of /f, g, k, l, s, sh/ and blends /s, r, l/ plus ber and ter.
Learn about Kit 1
Published by Northern Speech Services.
This highly effective approach builds intelligibility through a hierarchy of successive “word shell” approximations based on least physiological effort of target words. The clinician also is able to introduce more complex phoneme patterns as the child’s ability improves, thus maintaining the child’s ability to speak at his or her maximum level.
Kit 1 teaches children to combine consonants and vowels to form words while controlling for oral-motor difficulty. The 225 visual referent cards were selected specifically to target and teach the syllable shapes children need to master to become effective vocal/verbal communicators. Treatment methods employ a systematic and progressive approach of simplifying word pronunciation patterns to shape and expand verbal expression and make communication easier for children with childhood apraxia of speech and other speech sound disorders.
Learn about Kit 2
Published by Northern Speech Services.
The Kaufman Speech Praxis Test for Children was established through a grant from the former Research Institute of William Beaumont Hospital and published in 1995 through Wayne State University Press in Detroit, Michigan.
The KSPT is useful beyond establishing an initial diagnosis, as results can be used to measure and quantify gains in speech-motor proficiency. Also, test sections can assist in developing goals for IEPs and measuring progress.
No test actually informs us as to a specific diagnosis. Tests are a way to take data on the behaviors that are desired to evaluate. It is the role of the speech-language pathologist to then interpret the data and know the characteristics of CAS to then make a firm diagnosis.
Available at Northern Speech Services.
Nancy Kaufman, MA, CCC-SLP, director of the Kaufman Children's Center, demonstrates how to get the most out of half-hour therapy sessions using her K-SLP techniques.
Nancy entices Avery to participate using favorite toys are reinforcers. Also featured: early imitation of the K-SLP Kit 1 simple syllable shapes.
In this segment, Nancy demonstrates scripting functional language using pivot phrases, and emphasizes putting two simple syllables together using cues.
In this segment, Nancy will continue to work on syllable shapes and fading cues so Avery will be able to progress to naming on her own.
In this segment, Nancy will work on breaking assimilations on two-syllable words and the use of pivot syllables.
In this segment, more work with pivot syllables as well as naming common objects with cues and naming object function. Avery practices using a notebook of words personalized for her by Nancy.
In this segment, Nancy and Avery practice with the K-SLP Workout Book.
In this segment, Nancy and Avery will use familiar characters as subjects in subject-verb-object phrases.
In this segment, Nancy uses people and family figurines as subjects to help Avery with naming action in three-word phrases.
In this segment, Nancy and Avery practice pivot syllable words in the K-SLP Workout Book.
