PROMPT is a tactile-kinesthetic approach that uses hands-on cueing to guide correct articulatory movement.
When PROMPT Is the Right Tool
Some children don't respond to therapy that relies primarily on auditory and visual modeling — watching and listening to a therapist and trying to copy them. That's often true for children with apraxia, dysarthria, cerebral palsy, or other motor and neural differences, where the missing piece isn't understanding the sound, it's the motor plan to produce it. PROMPT uses hands-on tactile cues on the face and jaw to physically guide the muscles involved in speech toward the correct movement, giving the nervous system information that hearing and watching alone can't provide.
This is often where we see the clearest results with children who are, or have been, non-verbal — PROMPT gives us a way in when more traditional methods haven't moved the needle.
How We Approach It
PROMPT-informed tactile cueing is one of the motor-learning tools our clinicians are trained in and draw on within the BRIDGE Clinical Reasoning Framework™ — used when hands-on cueing is the right tool for a specific child's movement needs.