Therapy Methods & Advanced Training

Kinney Speech Therapy provides a variety of therapy methodologies and techniques to design a treatment plan that is tailored to meet each individual's unique speech, language and social skills needs. 

Kinney Speech Therapy provides a variety of therapy methodologies and techniques to design a treatment plan that is tailored to meet each individual's unique speech, language and social skills needs. 

In addition to general intervention methods, Britta Kinney has completed advanced training in all of the following evidence-based speech, language or social skills therapy methods and interventions.

The Kaufman Speech Protocol (KSP) is an intervention program that teaches children with childhood apraxia of speech to make successive approximations to improve motor-speech coordination and increase speech intelligibility. The KSP teaches the spect…
Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) includes interventions that are designed to analyze and change behavior in a measurable and accountable manner, and these interventions are useful for teaching many communication skills.  ABA interventions usuall…
Discrete Trial Training (DTT) is an ABA intervention method that teaches skills in simplified and structured steps, and DTT can be used to teach many different communication skill. Skills are broken down and then “built-up” to provide scaffolding by…
The Picture Exchange Communication System (PECS) is designed to teach functional communication skills through the exchange of picture symbols to communication within a social context.  PECS is an ABA based intervention focused on spontaneous fu…
The DIR Approach is relationship-based and involves relating to a child with respect and reciprocity to improve social interaction and engagement to improve functional pragmatic language and social skills.  Floortime intervention focuses on bui…
The Expanding Expression Tool (EET) is a multisensory program to improve oral and written language expression, including defining and describing vocabulary. Using a mnemonic device, it provides visual and tactile information to cue students to incor…
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Pivotal Response Training (PRT) is an ABA-based strategy that combines the systematic nature of discrete trial training with the naturalistic instruction for generalization of skills.  PRT, like incidental teaching, is a child-led strategy that…
The Hanen Center's "It Takes Two To Talk" Program is a parent education program that teaches parents how to help their child communicate and learn language during everyday activities.  "It Takes Two To Talk" is designed specifically for parents…
The Affect-Based Language Curriculum (ABLC) is a developmental approach that focuses on engagement, reciprocity, imitation, comprehension, expressive language, and social skills.  The ABLC is useful for teaching communication, language and spee…
Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 The Story Grammar Marker® (SGM) is a hands-on, kinesthetic tool with icons that represent the essential parts of a story. Children and adults can use the icons to “mark” o…
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