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Bondar Speech Pediatric speech therapy. Specializing in apraxia, and other speech sound disorders.

Ever felt stuck adapting motor speech therapy for an autistic client with suspected or diagnosed CAS? The sensory-friend...
09/15/2026

Ever felt stuck adapting motor speech therapy for an autistic client with suspected or diagnosed CAS?

The sensory-friendly approach + the effective motor speech approach — you don't have to pick one.

My mini-course Autism and Apraxia Together: A Roadmap for Intervention gives you the exact strategies, a proven target word formula, and real therapy footage to walk in prepared next time.

⏳ For just $37, get more practical strategies you can use in your speech sessions with autistic children.

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¿Te has sentido estancado al adaptar la terapia del habla motora para un cliente autista con sospecha o diagnóstico de apraxia del habla infantil (AHI)?

El enfoque sensorialmente amigable o el enfoque eficaz del habla motora: no tienes que elegir uno!

Mi minicurso "Autismo y Apraxia Juntos: Una Guía para la Intervención" te brinda las estrategias exactas, una fórmula comprobada para la identificación de palabras clave y grabaciones reales de sesiones de terapia para que estés preparado la próxima vez.

⏳ El precio es $37.

More information here: ➡️ https://www.bondarspeech.com/autism-and-apraxia-together-a-roadmap-for-intervention-course

09/08/2026

One of my favorite power words to teach children with apraxia? HELP! 🙌

The initial /h/ can be tricky to teach because… you can’t SEE it! 👀

One strategy I often use is a hand cue paired with a little breathiness to help the child feel and produce the airflow.

I also like to combine the /h/ with the vowel that follows it and teach it as a syllable rather than trying to teach /h/ in isolation and mistakingly adding a schwa sound. This often makes the word much easier to produce.

And HELP is such a great power word because it gives the child a meaningful way to communicate what they need.

With young children, I’m not worried about getting a perfect /l/ right away. I’m focused on helping them successfully communicate HELP.

Once they have the word, we can build it into functional phrases:
👉 Help me!�👉 I need help!

And now we need lots of opportunities to practice it! Here are some of my favorite toys and activities:

🧸 Wind-up toys�🥚 Little eggs that are challenging to open�🖍️ Markers that need help opening�🚪 Doors with keys that are tricky to unlock�🎈 Balloon pumps�⭐ Stampers�🧩 Pull-apart erasers

And don't forget books! 📚 Look for books that naturally give you lots of opportunities to say HELP, such as No More Monkeys and I Can Help.

The goal isn't just to practice a word. The goal is to give the child a powerful, functional word they can actually USE.

Want to learn more about using toys in apraxia therapy? ➡️ https://www.bondarspeech.com/blog/my-favorite-toys-for-apraxia-therapy

09/01/2026

Carryover can make a huge difference in apraxia therapy progress… but many SLPs struggle with how to make it actually happen outside the therapy room.

I wrote a blog post sharing practical strategies to help parents and caregivers feel confident supporting carryover at home — without overwhelming them.

If you want better participation, more practice opportunities, and faster progress, this post is for you. ✨

➡️ https://www.bondarspeech.com/blog/what-is-carryover-in-apraxia-therapy-and-why-does-it-matter

08/25/2026

Many autistic children also have childhood apraxia of speech (CAS), and their therapy needs to support both their motor speech challenges and their unique learning needs.

Apraxia therapy uses multisensory cueing to help children understand how speech movements are produced. These cues may be visual, tactile, auditory, or gestural, giving the child multiple ways to learn movement sequences for speech.

One common misconception is that children must maintain direct eye contact during therapy. They don’t. What they do need is meaningful engagement with the therapist.

The key is creating motivating, functional activities that encourage interaction and repeated practice of meaningful target words. When therapy is engaging and respects the child’s sensory and attentional needs, we can build the repetition needed for motor learning, without forcing eye contact.

I wrote a blog post called “How are autism and apraxia connected?”, with more information on this topic. There is also a link to my new mini course “Autism and Apraxia Together”. ➡️ Click here for the link. the link. https://www.bondarspeech.com/blog/how-are-autism-and-apraxia-connected

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08/25/2026

🎯 Mastering cueing in apraxia therapy? Here’s the secret!

💪 Apraxia therapy takes work, and providing dynamic cueing can be tricky.

💃 Dynamic therapy means adjusting your level of cueing to elicit accurate productions. Sometimes you add more cues, sometimes you fade them — always working toward independence and generalization. It’s a bit like a dance!

👂🏼 We’re constantly listening and aiming for the most accurate productions.

🎥 I created a series of short videos showing how I moved from more cueing to less cueing while practicing the phrase “I do it.”

➡️ Here is the link https://www.bondarspeech.com/joinus

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08/20/2026

What does child-led therapy really look like?
It looks like a child and SLP having fun while working toward meaningful speech + language goals.

It does not mean pulling every toy off the shelf or chasing a child around (unless that is the plan 🤭).

Children love to make choices. In this activity the child was able to do, something that she found silly, with the play dough.

Here are some ways to keep your session child-led and focused:
�✅ Let the child choose from a limited selection of toys�✅ Use their special interests as a springboard for play�✅ Add sensory-rich activities for better regulation
(if you have concerns about the child’s sensory needs, please consult with an occupational therapist)�✅ Offer flexible seating options�✅ Take short breaks between activities

🔄 What would you add to the list?
�Drop a 🙌🏼 if you believe in the power of play-based, child-led therapy!

Check out this blog post ➡️ https://www.bondarspeech.com/blog/behind-the-scenes-of-an-apraxia-therapy-session for practical ways to make apraxia therapy sessions run more smoothly.

08/09/2026

Joycat Toys gifted me this toy, and while I usually say no to receiving toys, I’ve worked with Joycat before and genuinely enjoy using their products—so I was happy to add this one to my therapy toy collection!

First of all… I loved it because I got to pull the lever. 😂🙈It brought me back to the slot machine era. There’s just something very satisfying about it!

I don’t typically focus on teaching colors and shapes during my speech therapy sessions, but MANY kids love them. So instead of making the color/shape the goal, I look for ways to use these motivating toys to practice POWER WORDS.

Here are some of the words and phrases we practiced with this toy this week:
➡️ in�➡️ out�➡️ pull�➡️ open�➡️ mine�➡️ me�➡️ go�➡️ again�➡️ one�➡️ two�➡️ same�➡️ see�➡️ eat�➡️ I want�➡️ I like�➡️ put in

And that’s the beauty of a good therapy toy. It gives you LOTS of opportunities for communication and practice. 🙌

💜 Want to see my other tested + fun Joycat recommendations? ➡️ https://www.amazon.com/shop/bondarspeech/list/1R7O5CLU93AEG?ref_=cm_sw_r_cp_ud_aipsflist_GT8GSD088KD9RJ3GM3F5

08/02/2026

👉👉 Why is co-articulation so important?

😊 Co-articulation is when we blend the sounds and words together to produce natural sounding speech.

🤖 We don’t want segmented, robotic speech. Intelligibility improves when the child moves smoothly between sounds in a word or combine words.

🗣️ Often I will say the words or phrase myself to see how I produce the words before I teach it to the child.

🚗 Do you sit in your car or office and repeat words and phrases to practice the most natural production?

➡️ https://www.bondarspeech.com/blog/co-articulation-in-apraxia-therapy free handout with phrase examples to work on co-articulation in your therapy sessions.

07/31/2026

Play-based apraxia therapy gives children meaningful opportunities to practice their target words during functional, motivating activities.

The goal is for children to have fun—but there also needs to be structure. We can never lose sight of the purpose of the session:

✨ Helping the child attend to the clinician while practicing accurate speech movements and target words.

Here are a few ways to keep your sessions child-led and focused:

✅ Let the child choose from a limited selection of toys.�✅ Build activities around their special interests.�✅ Incorporate sensory-rich activities to support regulation.�✅ Offer flexible seating options.�✅ Include short movement or sensory breaks between activities.

🔄 What would you add to this list?

Drop a 🙌🏼 if you believe in the power of play-based, child-led therapy!

More information ➡️ https://www.bondarspeech.com/blog/behind-the-scenes-of-an-apraxia-therapy-session

06/23/2026

Apraxia therapy is all about the movement between sounds. We aren’t working on individual sounds in isolation, we’re teaching the child how to move from one sound to the next.

When a child begins apraxia therapy, one of the first things I teach is how to “keep the voice on” as they move with me from one sound to another. We practice maintaining voicing during vowels and other voiced sounds, and then gradually combine those movements into syllables. If the child has continuant sounds i.e. /s/ or /f/, I will include those as well.

If you missed Part 1, go back and watch it! Be sure to read the caption for information about accessing my video page and handout on reducing segmentation in apraxia therapy.

For VC combinations such as on and eat, the child learns to hold the vowel and move smoothly to the final consonant while producing the sounds simultaneously with the clinician.

In apraxia therapy, our job is to support the child through the movement from one sound to the next.

Here are the key points:
1️⃣ Make sure the child is watching your face.�2️⃣ Cue the correct starting movement, also called the initial configuration.�3️⃣ Begin with simultaneous production at a slow rate and gradually move toward spontaneous production using the DTTC hierarchy.

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