nuffield dyspraxia programme v kauffman cards

[negligentmummy]

Hi,

Hope you might be able to help.

DD1 has verbal dyspraxia. Have joined a mailing list in the US, where they seem to use Kauffman cards rather than the nuffield system. Does anyone in the UK have any experience of them- my SALT has never heard of it as a treatment programme!!

(we find Nuffield VERY boring and slow going!)

We have the cards. They're designed for an American accent, and you'll find it hard to find a therapist here that uses them (Nancy Kauffman does some distance work i think though - she always used to).

She does come over the to the UK to do one day training sessions occasionally.

They are much more interesting than the Nuffield ones.

We bought them to use with ds1 but his speech disorder was too severe really for us to deal with alone, but they were very effective with ds2 who had bizarre speech sound oddities when younger and was diagnosed with 'possible verbal dyspraxia'. It was sorted before he needed a diagnosis iyswim.

thanks saintly... where do you get them from and do they come with instructions.
I have no objection to an American accent if they come with talking!

I can't remember whether they were shipped from the states or whether we bought them from nancy here.

Ifyou get them shipped get a vat exemption certificate. They should qualify.,

I can't link to her site as I'm on the iPod but if you google nancy Kaufman apraxia you should find it

they're pretty easy to use - you just start with thr sounds your child can make. There are quite a few in the vb world using them here so if you need help you should be able to get some - just not with a salt!

you can go do block sessions with her over a holiday I think www.kidspeech.com/ - I looked at it, but decided on the Nuffield programme, as it was supported locally. I think the Nuffield is incredible and has really helped unlock our boys speech. I think all these cards with speech sounds are only as boring as the games that you plan around them. So we do lots of things like throwing balls onto cards and reading the one it lands on, sliding characters from programmes our boy likes down slides for each card read. Rolling marbles down marble runs etc. Winning stickers from a panini book, etc. The nature of the disorder makes it boring, as it involves large amounts of repetitions of sounds - but there are ways to make it fun. I also get lots of my boys friends to join in, when they are over to 'normalise' it and make sure he has the coolest toys and feed them all fizzy sweets at the start so that their mouths wake up and they are all dying to play to get the sweets! Balancing chocolate buttons on tongue - licking chocolate around lips. If you add it bits like that, am sure your child will find it less boring!