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Course Content
11 Lessons-
StartWhat is CAS?
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StartWhat is Coarticulation?
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StartFoundations of Apraxia Therapy
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StartTherapy Clip
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StartSpecial Considerations for Teaching Children with Apraxia
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StartComponents of /ɹ/ Production
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StartUsing Coarticulation to Elicit /ɹ/
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StartTherapy Clip
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StartBreaking it Down into Movements
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StartUsing Chaining to Elicit More /ɹ/ Variations
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StartSummary
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Teaching /ɹ/ to Children with CAS
Evidence-based CAS treatment, applied to the R sound
/ɹ/ is already tricky. Add a motor planning disorder and it’s a whole different game. Learn the evidence-based approach, with real therapy clips. The best part? These principles work for every /ɹ/ student on your caseload, CAS or not.
COURSE SUMMARY
You’ve tried the cues. You’ve tried shaping. /ɹ/ still won’t stick, and you suspect (or know) CAS is part of the picture.
Here’s the thing: when motor planning is involved, treatment needs to look different from traditional articulation therapy. This course shows you how.
Breanna Waldrup, MS, CCC-SLP, walks you through what CAS actually is, how to recognize it (even when it’s residual), and how the Principles of Motor Learning should shape your sessions. Then she gets specific: how to use coarticulation and chaining to elicit and expand /ɹ/ in children whose motor planning makes this already-tricky sound even harder.
And these motor learning principles aren’t just for CAS. They belong in your sessions with every articulation and /ɹ/ student you see. Learn them once, use them across your whole caseload.
WHAT YOU'LL LEARN
- What CAS is, and how to spot it, even when it’s residual
- How to use the Principles of Motor Learning (the research on how to structure practice so new skills stick)
- How to set up practice so skills generalize, and the pitfalls to avoid
- How to use coarticulation (the way neighboring sounds shape each other) to elicit R
- How to break R into movements and use chaining to build more R variations
Great course! Breanna is super knowledgeable and provides practical tips and techniques that you can immediately implement with your caseload. I especially appreciated how the course not only breaks down the components of CAS and R production, but also gives suggestions for scaffolding R elicitation and R treatment through a PML lens.
WHAT'S INSIDE
MEET YOUR INSTRUCTOR
Breanna Waldrup is a speech-language pathologist with 18+ years of clinical experience specializing in motor speech disorders. She holds recognition from Apraxia Kids for Advanced Training and Expertise in Childhood Apraxia of Speech, founded and directed Apraxia Dallas for nearly a decade, and currently serves as Director of Educational Programming at Bjorem & Bolles. Her advanced training includes DTTC, ReST, Speech Motor Chaining, and PROMPT, and she is known for translating current research into practical clinical application.
