We’ve talked about visual, verbal, gestural and tactile cues. These are all cues that we provide as therapists. We also use visual supports or can change the environment to help our students meet their goals. I’m thinking about how I might use environmental cues to train the following common speech goals: Articulation: Saying an […]
Clue into your cues: Gestural Cues
After verbal cues, I think I probably use gestural cues the most. I’m trying to be more mindful within my sessions of the many different ways we can prompt different responses. It’s part of our skilled service. We use a lot of other teaching techniques as well, but cues and prompts are how we work […]
Clue into your Cues: Visual Cues
I’m still taking some time to think about what cues I use with my clients with the idea that I want to choose the most effective prompts during my sessions. You can check out my previous posts below: Verbal Cues Tactile Cues When talking about visual cues today, I am going to specifically think about facial […]
Clue into Cues: Tactile cues
I started talking about this last month-and then got a little distracted with the holidays. My topic of the month for November and December is cues/prompts. I’m using them interchangeably but I realize that many people do make distinctions between the two but I don’t. Maybe I’ll form my own island and have my own rules […]
Clue into Your Cues: Verbal Cues
This month’s theme is talking about cues and prompts. How often are you thinking about the cues that you are giving? I think it is such a second nature type of thing, that I often forget that I am doing it. Cues are part of our skilled service. It’s not the only thing we use […]
