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New to Speech Motor Chaining? Watch our video to learn to set up your:

  • First client
  • First treatment session
  • Chains (treatment targets)

Then, see how to run your session.

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Client Profiles

Setting Up a New Client Profile
  1. Navigate to your Client Dashboard.
  2. Click on “+ Create New Client”.
  3. Enter a client pseudonym in “Nickname”.
  4. Optional: Choose an emoji representing your client.
    • Open a new window, navigate to https://emojipedia.org/ to choose an emoji representing your client.
    • Select an emoji, click “Copy”.
    • Use CTRL+V to paste emoji in “Emoji”.
  5. Choose all sound targets that will be addressed in therapy or assessed in progress monitoring.
  6. Click “Save” to save this client profile.
Archiving Inactive Client Profiles
Archiving a client as inactive lets you remove the client from the default view of your dashboard, without deleting the client's profile. 
 
  1. Click on the client's Nickname in the Client Dashboard.
  2. Click the "Client is Active" box at the bottom of the client's profile.  
 
To view inactive clients in your Client Dashboard, click "Include Inactive Clients" box at the top right. 
Deleting Client Profiles
  1. Click on the client's Nickname in the Client Dashboard.
  2. Click the "Delete" button at the bottom of the client's profile.  
 
Be cautious. This deletes all therapy data associated with that client, and it cannot be recovered.

Speech Motor Chaining Treatment

Treatment Templates

Treatment Templates let you load in settings that you commonly use in different treatment sessions, so setting up individual treatment sessions for your clients will be a breeze.

For example, you might make treatment session templates like these: 

  • 30-min session with 2 chains
  • 45-min session with 4 chains
  • 45-minute session with 4 chains and Treasure Chain game (available for Pro users)

You can set up as many Treatment Templates as your like, or use our defaults. 

To Set up a Treatment Session Template:

  1. In the banner menu, select “Setup Tools” then “Treatment Templates”

  2. Click on “+ Create New” to create a new session-type

  3. Enter the name of your session

  4. Use the drop downs to select the number of syllables to address in your session, the number of chains per syllable, how often auditory models should be provided to learners, total duration of session, and whether the session will have prepractice or not.

  5. Click “Save” to store the template in your library

Motor Learning Pre-Practice
Pre-practice is an important part of a motor-based treatment session.

When teaching speech movements, it is the stage in which the clinician provides maximal instruction and support to the client. Speech Motor Chaining sessions are designed to start with pre-practice.

Pre-practice can be time-based (e.g., you may chose to end pre-practice after 10 minutes) or criterion-based (e.g., you may end pre-practice after 3 correct productions of each of your target syllables). Once pre-practice is over, your session will advance to structured Chaining.

To include pre-practice in your Speech Motor Chaining sessions, it must be set up in your Treatment Session Template:

Motor Learning Random Practice
Random practice is an important part of a motor-based treatment session, that supports generalization of new skills to unpracticed words.

Random practice involves saying practice words in a random sequence (e.g. A, F, B, D, C, E) rather than in a blocked sequence (e.g., A A A A A, B B B B B B). In Speech Motor Chaining, Random practice will automatically begin only once the client has shown success on some mutisyllabic words, and 70% of the session time has gone by. The highest level of each chain that the child achieved earlier in the session will be presented in random order.

During random practice, feedback is limited to 50% of practice trials to best support motor learning generalization.

Setting Up a New Treatment Session (Individual or Group)
Create a Treatment Session from one of your Treatment Templates (or use one of ours!)

  1. From the Client Dashboard, select “Treatment Sessions" for the client
  2. Click on “+ Create New Treatment Session for this Client”
  3. Click the calendar to select the session date and time
  4. Name the session
  5. Using the dropdown identify the client(s) being treated in this session.
    • If the session is a group session, you can select more than one client in the dropdown.
    • If you make an error when selecting group members, you can uncheck them.
    • All checked session members are listed in Clients.
  6. Select the Treatment Session Template you will use for this session (for your reference, template details will appear underneath “Session Template”, but you cannot modify them from this screen)
  7. Click “Save” to store session information
  8. If you change something in the session after saving it, don't forget to click "Save" again!
Loading Chains into a Treatment Session

  1. After you have saved your Treatment Session, the “Set up Chains” button will appear.
  2. Using the dropdowns, select the Sound Target(s) you will focus on
  3. Using the dropdowns, select the syllables you will focus on
  4. Option: You can select “Autogenerate Remaining Chains” to fill in the rest of your chaining targets
  5. Using the dropdowns, you can select each level of chains; work in a left to right manner as the monosyllabic word you select will dictate which options are available at higher linguistic levels
  6. Review chains; if you would prefer a different target, you can use the dropdowns to further customize
  7. Select “Save Client Chains” to lock them into the session
  8. Entered information will be stored in your session until the session is started

 

Note: You can use the “Copy From…” button to copy chains from a previous session to a new one. It will import the chains exactly as they are saved from a prior session. This is helpful if you want the client to work on the same Chains as a previous session.

Progress Monitoring

Progress Monitoring Templates

Progress Monitoring Templates let you load in sessions for different types of unpracticed word lists, so setting up individual progress monitoring sessions to measure generalization for your clients will be a breeze.

For example, you might make Progress Monitoring Session templates like these: 

  • 15-item /r/ syllable list
  • 25-item /s/ word list with monosyllable words
  • 25-item /s/ word list with monosyllable and multisyllable words
  • 50-item /r/ word list with competing sounds

By definition, all words are unpracticed words. There is no overlap with the Chains so you can be sure that Progress Monitoring Sessions measure progress toward generalization. A different set of unpracticed words will be pulled every time you make a Progress Monitoring Session from these word lists. 

You can set up as many Progress Monitoring Session Templates as your like, or use our defaults.

Note that Progress Monitoring Templates is only available for /r/, /s/, and /z/.

To create a Progress Monitoring Template using the Speech Motor Chaining dictionary

  1. In the banner menu, select “Setup Tools” then “Progress Monitoring Templates”
  2. Click on “+ Create New” to create a new progress monitoring template
  3. Enter the name of this template
  4. Use the dropdown menu to select a target for progress monitoring
  5. Using the checkboxes, you can select/unselect list characteristics
  6. Select the number of items you want to assess per sound target
  7. If you want to add more than one sound to this list, click “+ Add items to list”. 
  8. Click “Save” to store your Progress Monitoring Template

 

Setting Up A New Progress Monitoring Session (Progress Monitoring Template)
  1. From the Client Dashboard, select “Progress Monitoring Sessions” for a client.
  2. Click on “+ Create New Treatment Session for this Client”
  3. Click the calendar to select the session date and time
  4. Name the session type
  5. Select “Help me generate an utterance list”
  6. Already created templates will appear
  7. Select the Template you want to use from the dropdown menu
  8. Click “Save” to store word list
  9. Click “Begin Session” to start the Progress Monitoring Session
Setting Up A New Progress Monitoring Session (Custom Words)
Instead of using a Progress Monitoring Template, you can set up a Progress Monitoring Session with your own custom word list.

  1. From the Client Dashboard, select “Progress Monitoring Sessions” for a client
  2. Click on “+ Create New Progress Monitoring Session for this Client”
  3. Click the calendar to select the session date and time
  4. Name the session
  5. Select “Use my own utterance list”
  6. Click “Save”
  7. Click “Set up utterances” to enter your own targets
  8. Type your progress monitoring utterances (words, phrases, sentences); one per line
  9. You have the option of shuffling your entries (to present randomly) or sorting the list into alphabetical order.
  10. Click “Save” to store word list
  11. Click “Begin Session” to start the Progress Monitoring Session
Reusing the same Progress Monitoring Word List
  1. From the Client Dashboard, select “Progress Monitoring Sessions” for a client
  2. Click on “+ Create New Treatment Session for this Client”
  3. Click the calendar to select the session date and time
  4. Name the session 
  5. Select previously administered list from dropdown available in “Copy Words/Settings From”
  6. Click “Copy”
  7. Click “Utterances” to review the list; click “shuffle” if you want to administer the list in a random order.
  8. Click “Save” to store session details
  9. Click “Begin Session” to start the Progress Monitoring Session

Account

Upgrading, Changing, or Canceling a Subscription

Billing and subscriptions are handled by Stripe, so Speech Motor Chaining never stores your billing information. 

You can use our Stripe webpage to manage your subscription.

  1. Click the profile icon at the top right.
  2. Click “Manage Subscription"
  3. From the Stripe webpage, you can will take you to the page to upgrade, cancel, or change your subscription.
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Please check your junk/spam folder for a message from SpeechLink.  You can also have the confirmation email resent by clicking "Resend email confirmation" on the Account Login page. 

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