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Category Archives: Science and Pseudoscience
Presuppositions from prepositions …!
Recently my attention was drawn to the website of the Oral Motor Institute. We have featured posts on oral motor therapy in our pseudoscience series some weeks ago. The OMI publishes occasional monographs on this topic. The site lays great … Continue reading
Posted in linguistics, Science and Pseudoscience
About EvolveFISH
Yesterday’s post came from the websiet EvolveFISH. There’s some great stuff to buy there for the skepics among us. Here’s what they say about themselves: EvolveFISH is an enterprise based in Colorado that is dedicated to countering the destructive aspects … Continue reading
Posted in Clinical Linguistics, Science and Pseudoscience
Rapture Coming! Spend NOW !
It’s finally going to happen. Jesus is returning for his promised destruction of the wantonly Evil Humans. It was predicted in the bible. Now the current flock of religious loonies claim it’s about to happen. No!! Scratch that. It IS … Continue reading
Posted in Science and Pseudoscience
Why Not to Use Nonspeech Oral Motor Exercises for Speech Sounds Disorders 9
References Aberhamsen, E., & Flack, L. (2002, Nov.). Do sensory and motor techniques improve accurate phoneme production? Poster presented at the annual meeting of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Atlanta, GA. ASHA Technical Report on Childhood Apraxia of Speech (2007). http://www.asha.org/docs/html/PS2007-00277.html … Continue reading
Why Not to Use Nonspeech Oral Motor Exercises for Speech Sounds Disorders 8
Recent Series of Articles Addressing NSOME Seminars in Speech and Language, Volume 29, #4, November, 2008 Introduction to controversies about the use of nonspeech oral motor exercises. G. Lof Task specificity in early oral motor development. E. Wilson, J. Green, … Continue reading
Why Not to Use Nonspeech Oral Motor Exercises for Speech Sounds Disorders 7
In Conclusion Potential reasons why NSOME continue to be used (Lof, 2009): The procedures can be followed in a step-by-step “cookbook” fashion; The exercises are tangible with the appearance that something therapeutic is being done; There is a lack … Continue reading
Why Not to Use Nonspeech Oral Motor Exercises for Speech Sounds Disorders 6
Evidence Against the Use of NSOME Evidence-Based Systematic Review: Effects of Nonspeech Oral Motor Exercises on Speech (McCauley et al., 2009). Purpose was to conduct evidence-based systematic review on NSOME. Only 8 peer-reviewed articles met rigorous criteria for inclusion. … Continue reading
Why Not to Use Nonspeech Oral Motor Exercises for Speech Sounds Disorders 5
Disorders that SLPs Often Use NSOME for Childhood Apraxia of Speech (CAS) Children with CAS have adequate oral structure movements for nonspeech activities but not for volitional speech (Caruso & Strand, 1999), so this would preclude the use of NSOME … Continue reading
Posted in Clinical Linguistics, Science and Pseudoscience
Tagged Nonspeech oral motor exercises
Why Not to Use Nonspeech Oral Motor Exercises for Speech Sounds Disorders 4
Relevancy of NSOME to Speech Relevancy is the only way to get changes in the neural system; the context in which a skill is learned is crucial. In order to obtain transfer from one skill to another, the learned skills … Continue reading
Posted in Clinical Linguistics, Science and Pseudoscience
Tagged Nonspeech oral motor exercises
Why Not to Use Nonspeech Oral Motor Exercises for Speech Sounds Disorders 3
Guest Author: Greg Lof Theoretical Reasons to Question Using NSOME Part-Whole Training and Transfer Basic questions: 1. Does training on a smaller portion of the articulatory gesture transfer over to the whole gesture? 2. Is it more efficient and better … Continue reading
Posted in Clinical Linguistics, Science and Pseudoscience
Tagged Nonspeech oral motor exercises
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