SLP Category: Recognized by Apraxia Kids for Advanced Training and Expertise in Childhood Apraxia of Speech
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- Lisa
- Murphy
- 1745 Lulie Street
Victoria
British Columbia
V8R 5W7
Canada - GVSD
Victoria
British Columbia
V8R 5W7
Canada
I am an SLP who strives to support children with CAS and their families by providing fun, motivating, and connection-based speech therapy sessions. Our therapy sessions will target the underlying difficulties that children with CAS struggle with – the planning and programming of the muscles used for speech (a motor skill).
Another important aspect of my work with families is working on specific strategies that parents and caregivers can use at home within their everyday routines and activities to support their child with achieving their specific communication goals.
During my clinical training (McGill University, class of 2014), I was fortunate to take part in a clinical internship with Dr. Susan Rvachew and Dr. Tanya Matthews. As a part of this internship, I was a student clinician (supervised by the above clinicians/researchers) who administered CAS assessments and therapy to children with CAS, with the aim to try to figure out how children with CAS respond to different types of therapy. The results of this research were published in 2019 and contributed to our understanding of how therapy techniques affect the speech of children with CAS. This experience is what first motivated me to continue to learn and refine my practice in working to support children with CAS. In my 9 years of clinical practice I have had the privilege of working with many children with CAS diagnoses and I have enjoyed continuing to broaden my understanding of CAS. Currently I work in private practice and in a local school district, supporting school teams with developing the communication skills of complex communicators, many of whom are Autistic, use alternative and augmentative communication, and/or have motor planning challenges.
Parents are a key part of each stage of the therapy process. In the beginning, being the people who know their child the best, they can set us up for success by letting me know more about their child so that their interests can be included in therapy, giving the child the intrinsic motivation to work on their speech skills while having fun. While my work with your child will be regular and involve lots of speech practice, we will brainstorm ways that you can incorporate speech practice into your daily routines so that your child will get the much-needed practice between sessions. The aim is to increase the speech practice time in a way that is fun and natural for your family, but also in a way that will support continued development of speech skills.
In my career as an SLP I have supported and currently support many children (aged 5 and younger and more recently the school-aged population) who use/have used AAC. Introducing AAC can help to give a child a voice to express things that may be difficult to express with speech alone, to decrease frustration, and to support the child’s ongoing language development while we work on their speech sound production skills. In all cases, AAC can been crucial to give the child more experiences where they are successful at communicating so that they see themselves as a competent and confident communicator.