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Your best session. Every time.
Your best session. Every time.
Speech Motor Chaining™ sessions quickly adapt in difficulty based on client progress. Speech Motor Chaining™ serves as your partner for clinical decisions that take a learner from establishing a speech sound to generalization.
Speech Motor Chaining™ does this by adapting several principles of motor learning:
Linguistic complexity of the practice trial (from syllables to sentences)
Ordered or random grouping of trials
Prosodic variation of trials
Amount of clinician feedback
Specificity of the clinician's feedback
Amount of self-monitoring
Principles of Motor Learning made easy.
Principles of Motor Learning made easy.
Speech Motor Chaining™ is an evidence-based practice built on the Principles of Motor Learning backed by several high quality research studies for speech sound therapy.
For more information, go to the Speech Production Lab at Syracuse University.
Who is the best candidate for Speech Motor Chaining™?
Who is the best candidate for Speech Motor Chaining™?
Readiness Checklist
Readiness Checklist
✅ Is the client 7 years or older?
✅ Does the client have a primary motor-based (not phonological) speech sound disorder?
✅ Are the client’s speech deviations primarily consonant distortions or substitutions?
✅ Does the client need to practice
producing specific speech sounds in syllables, words, phrases and sentences?
OR
sequencing speech sounds in multisyllabic words, phrases, and sentences?
✅ Can the client tolerate some drill practice?
✅ Can the client tolerate getting things wrong?
If the answer is "yes" to each of these questions, your client is likely a good fit for Speech Motor ChainingTM! If the answer is “no” to one or more of these questions, Speech Motor ChainingTM might not be the best fit for your client. You may wish to consider other evidence-based approaches.
Coming soon - enhancements for Speech Motor Chaining™!
Coming soon - enhancements for Speech Motor Chaining™!
We have several updates planned for later in 2025:
Gamification
will enrich learning and engagement
Gamification
will enrich learning and engagement
Screen Sync
to support Remote Clients
Screen Sync
to support Remote Clients
Effective AI Clinicians
extend your clinical expertise to home practice
Effective AI Clinicians
extend your clinical expertise to home practice
Notice:
No Speech Motor Chaining™ components or materials, including word lists and treatment structure, can be modified and/or redistributed under the name(s) "Speech Motor Chaining", "Speech Chaining", or "Chaining" without express written consent from SpeechLink Incorporated. We do this because the scientific evidence only applies to Speech Motor Chaining™ as it is presented in the free Excel datasheets and the web application. Remixing and redistributing the material may invalidate the claims of evidence-based practice. Clinicians can use Speech Motor Chaining™ out of the box for treatment and clinical research. We welcome consultation with researchers interested in testing experimental modifications of Speech Motor Chaining™.
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