My sessions begin with rapport building where I focus on creating a comfortable space for a child to learn and grow. I incorporate preferred toys/activities into my sessions to increase motivation and maintain engagement – therapy should be fun! Sessions are individualized, moving at the child’s pace with the goal of building confidence while increasing speech intelligibility. I review the vowels and consonants within a child’s repertoire in order to choose target words as well as shape vocal approximations. Best word approximations are used for a child’s high frequency and/or favorites with the aim of working towards the adult form. I am trained in the Kaufman Speech to Language Protocol (K-SLP) which is often used as it is rooted in principles of motor learning. Some strategies utilized include errorless teaching (cueing before failure), error correction, mass distributed practice with use of cues like direct modeling, multisensory cues, gesture/visual/verbal cues as well as mixing and varying tasks to avoid overgeneralization. Supports are used and faded in order to allow for independence as well as generalization of skills to various environments.