The VML Method - treating apraxia of speech 

I'm a Slp from India 😊

Wonderful video! Thank you!

wow...after seeing this video I can now understand my daughter's difficulties with speech. I wish I could have access to our teaching all the way out here in the South Pacific!

Thanks for the comment. The use of oral motor treatment is indeed controversial in the literature. There is no evidence supporting the use of Oral motor tech' but the research is poor and has many methodological flaws. We found in a wide retrospective study of 256 cases good correlations between speech and oral tasks. In addition, Oral motor treatment is just a small part of the VML method.

Love this wish this was around 13 yrs ago when my son was young would love to learn how to train to use this over in Scotland

thank you for posting this is a very parent friendly video

This looks really good.

Excellent methods

Elad, you are wonderful!🥰

My daughter who is now 10 was taught these techniques here in Las Vegas, NV back in 2007-2008. They helped her tremendously and therapy was quick with results! My son is 6 and has been in therapy for THREE years will hardly any accomplishment. I wish I could find the therapist that helped my daughter so she could help my son too! What one of the other comments was referring to was not that the equipment is used to touch the child on their face, her concern was that it wasn't sanitary to have the child use the whistle after the instructor used it in his mouth. I agree the child should have a sanitary whistle. Any objects used in the mouth should be sanitized between use of other students or student and teacher. Otherwise, regardless of publications issued, I can vouch this method is most effective and if literature suggests otherwise, it's because there's more money to be made with therapy that isn't as effective and takes much longer to get results. My daughter got control of her speech with this method within a year. My son is being helped verbal with a few visual cues and has gotten nowhere in three years of therapy. A hands-on approach with objects being used to help them feel the correct place within the mouth is the way it works. I totally back this up. My daughter will too!

I like u I like ur techniques

Hi, I am glad the clip helped to understand the difficulties. Where are you from?

IF I had the money, I'd be in Israel with my little boy right now.. Or I'd fly you out here to teach him. Because YOU are exactly what I need for him!! Thank you SOOO much for this!

God bless him!

you can contact yaelcenter thorough the website so we will see how can we help you further

Hi Michal, contact information are in the video description Regards Elad

From Fiji. My daughter has dyspraxia. I could not understand why she her speech development was slow and poor until I saw your video. The problem is we don't have speech therapists here, but your video has put me in the right direction. Thanks again.

Hi good to see you vml method , well im a audiologist and speech therapist Indian in Kenya, but we do it as motor kinesthetic approach... Im happy to know 😂

Love you st

I strongly believe my daughter needs this type of therapy for her apraxia of speech. She has a lot of sensory issues and I really wish we could have this type of therapy. Are therapists trained like this in the States? We are in the Raleigh, NC, area and would LOVE to get a therapist with this VML method training. Or, are there training sessions on this method available in the States? Thank you for any help!

Interested

Do you have a list of training videos for parents? My 5 yr old daughter does not have this diagnosis, but has some of these same symptoms. She has q22, just had a soft cleft palate repair and now they want to do a pflap, but we have not made a final decision.They say her severity is neurological. I wonder if unique intervention and intentional neurological stimulation, if there might be a better option for my daughter.

why is this not available in the uk all methods that can help children with apraxia can only be a good thing and this method certainly makes sense to me

Is this in Australia, I am in Gold Coast and we would love to know if there is a specialist around here. thanks!

Super. ...schön das gibst solche menchen was sind für die kranke daa. ..special für kinder

Thank you very helpfull.my daughter 2years pass she covers some words but recent baba and no two words.please help me

Mr.Elad...do you maybe know if this vhl learning is avalible in Austria?thank you

Any training video to teach parents this therapy?

Hi Elad.. Does this technique work in an adult who has acquired Apraxia of Speech by a head injury road accident?

Great integration of sensory/Kaufman/talk tools, Marshala, and Beckman techniques, but I’d use gloves and not share patient saliva on horns/whistles. Seeing that made me cringe. Definitely not a practice norm in US to do this without proper protection.

The biggest problem with my daughter is that beside CAS she is diagnosed with Autism as well, and not paying attention a lot and she is sensitive with touch. she doesn't let me touch her cheeks or squeeze them or any part of her face. what are the techniques for the CAS + ASD kids?

Hi tracy, Sorry I wasn't able to help then, jope you have over come the CAS. A training is planned in the UK, we are trying to get few proffesionals and parents for a training. If you contact me through the email or website we can discuss that further. regards Elad

I am an israeli living in the states, my kid has cas, do u know if this disorder is linked to lower intelligence and if there is anything in the usa to help my kid?

well ok,i know oral and speech motor tasks can correlate if there is comorbidity,and the rest of the method seems MCL, problem in croatia is that no one does any therapy for CAS except oral motor th,the other problem is that parents often(if not 99%cases) refuse to give SLT permission to touch their child even with latex gloves when there is written statement..how did you solve that?what is ur opinion of Talk Tools use, they represent it as opposite of Beckman tools,but,they r just the same

My son 5 years old pre mature baby. Still he could not speech

Hi Jessica, please contact me through yaelcenter website and we can discuss the options. Regards , Elad

VML is not just touching techniques, the opposite is true. The analysis, intensity, choosing the right subjects, amount of practice and structuring the intervention are in the basis of the method and sometimes contribute more then the techniques. It is the parents right not to allow touching technique but I found it absurd, wouldn't a parent allow physical intervention in pt treatment? Talk tools can help as any other tool, it depends on the goals of the program.

כהורה לילדה המתאמנת בשיטת vml אני יכול להעיד שהשיטה עובדת. ההתמדה מביאה תוצאות.

My child 1 year down pleasr help me speech therapy i live in india

Helo sir

-.- and i thought it would be an amazing video, g' really no comment, motor learning? oral motor tasks arent same as speech motor tasks, google it -.-

The exercises are good, but hygiene is awful! He takes the things in his mouth after girl's and vice versa!

The amount of virus transmission and unhygiene in this thecnique is too much too handle.