What Is It?
The Speech Map program provides a placement test and a goal bank covering speech sounds, oral motor exercises, fluency, and language areas. Following the placement test, the clinician will assign the appropriate programs to the client automatically. Each template in the program includes tailored teaching strategies and additional materials to facilitate the therapy process for clinicians. This methodical approach guarantees that therapy centers, therapists, parents, and teachers can efficiently incorporate and monitor progress, even with hectic schedules.
Skill categories
Language, Articulation, Fluency, Oral Motor Exercises, Speech Therapy
Who Is It For?
The Speech Map program serves as a versatile resource for a range of professionals, including speech-language pathologists, SLPA’s (speech language assistants), and special educators, who collaborate in supporting children aged 3 to 10.
With a focus on setting meaningful and age-appropriate goals in educational, clinical, or home settings, the program enhances articulation, language skills, and oral motor strength through engaging activities and personalized materials.
Emphasizing collaboration between educators and therapists, the program ensures comprehensive support for children with speech, language, and fluency challenges. Tailored to address the unique needs of young learners, this program equips professionals with the tools to deliver impactful speech and language therapy interventions effectively.
Why Should You Use It?
The Speech Map program offers a comprehensive guide for creating personalized speech therapy plans by providing a range of program templates, placement tests, and resources. This approach empowers clinicians to tailor interventions to meet each client's unique needs, ultimately enhancing therapy effectiveness and improving outcomes. Reasons for using the "Speech Map Placement Test":
Data collection and progress tracking: Special-purpose checklists may focus on skills such as articulation, phonology, grammar, vocabulary, fluency, or social communication. By practising these skills during activities and recording the client’s performance, speech-language pathologists (SLPs) can understand their strengths and weaknesses, as well as monitor improvements over time. This information is used to structure therapy sessions and set achievable targets.
Dynamic assessment tool accommodating change: Unlike standardized formal assessment tools, informal checklists can be individualized according to each case’s needs. These assessments can take place in different environments and while performing various tasks, resembling typical daily interactions between clients and therapists. This flexibility enables SLPs to gather more data about an individual’s communication abilities.
Client engagement and self-monitoring promotion: These lists can be transformed into visual aids and progress tables for clients, enabling them to visualize their progress. This visual representation may enhance motivation and active participation in therapy sessions. Some of these lists could also serve as self-monitoring tools, encouraging clients to actively participate in their treatment programs.
How Does It Work?
The Speech Map program is accessible through the UnitusTI cloud management platform, which offers a range of features for your practice.
The Speech Map consists of over 303 templates that can be assigned and customized for each client.
Program templates monitor progress on specific targets, including language, fluency, speech sounds, and oral motor exercises, to assess advancement towards goals such as language proficiency and oral motor skills, among others.
Mastery of programs and targets can be monitored, and maintenance schedules can be established for goals that clients have achieved based on the mastery criteria you set. You can choose from various types of data collection, such as Discrete Trial, Natural Environment, Frequency, Duration, and Rating Scale. You can set personalized mastery levels for each program and client and automatically generate graphs and reports on progress.
Share progress reports with caregivers and parents, and keep track of service codes and session notes for comprehensive insurance reports.
Delivered through the UnitusTI electronic data records cloud
Access from any device, anywhere in the world
The program is delivered to professionals via subscription to the UnitusTI electronic data records (EDR) cloud.
Leading-edge data collection, staff and client management tools and program templates are built right into UnitusTI.
See instant data and quickly graph progress to make informed decisions
Provide reports and share relevant data securely with others
Track staff performance and give them collaboration tools to keep your practice on track
Customizable data collection means you can track as much or as little as you need to keep business humming and your clients happy
UnitusTI features include:
Assessments | Programs | Curricula | Data Acquisition Types | Program Maintenance | Target Maintenance | Pre-defined Reports | Customizable Reports | Service Code Tracking | Session Notes | Graphing | Calendar | Internal Messaging | Document Storage | Session Tracking | Interactive Materials | Role-based Access | Multimedia | Automatic Backups | Billing Prep | Real-time Data Monitoring
About the Author
Misha Irshad
Misha, an experienced Speech-Language Pathologist with a decade of field experience, firmly believes in the value of sharing knowledge for human advancement. With a history of serving a broad range of patients aged 2 to 100, she has effectively addressed various speech-language and swallowing issues. Her developed program "The Speech Map" is designed to aid busy speech therapists, educators, and parents in creating tailored reports for children aged 4 to 10 with ease. The primary goal of the speech map program is to automate the creation of speech therapy plans for therapy centers and practitioners.
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