PROMPT Therapy – Who It’s For and What a Session Looks Like

Parents often hear about PROMPT Therapy when exploring options for children with motor-based speech difficulties. This hands-on approach—widely used at OrbRom Center—helps children plan, coordinate, and produce clear speech sounds through structured tactile and verbal feedback.

Who PROMPT Therapy Is For

PROMPT (Prompts for Restructuring Oral Muscular Phonetic Targets) is particularly helpful for children who:

• Struggle to coordinate mouth movements (e.g., apraxia of speech).

• Have unclear or inconsistent pronunciation despite knowing what they want to say.

• Exhibit oral-motor weakness, drooling, or difficulty sequencing speech sounds.

• Have neurological or developmental conditions, such as autism or Down syndrome, that affect speech motor control.

It’s not just about pronunciation—it’s about teaching the body how to move for accurate speech. For more context on related speech conditions, read Speech and language delay in children and Speech-language disorders in children.

What a PROMPT Session Looks Like

At OrbRom Center, PROMPT sessions are individualized and highly interactive. They blend tactile cues, play, and parent coaching to create lasting results.

1. Assessment and Target Planning

Each child begins with a detailed Assessment to identify specific speech motor challenges. The therapist analyzes muscle tone, coordination, and sound patterns to set short-term speech movement goals.

2. Tactile-Kinesthetic Cues

During therapy, the speech therapist lightly touches the child’s face—jaw, lips, or cheeks—to guide movement and timing. For example, a gentle touch might cue the jaw to drop or the lips to round. This feedback helps the child feel how to form sounds, not just hear corrections.

3. Practice Through Play

PROMPT is never robotic. Sessions use games, songs, and meaningful words so the child practices new motor patterns in real communication. This approach fits perfectly within OrbRom’s play-based learning model, similar to strategies used in Play-based speech therapy.

4. Home and School Collaboration

Parents receive practice cues and phrases to reinforce daily speech goals. Teachers may also be guided to support generalization—turning therapy progress into classroom communication. See Questions to ask your child’s speech therapist for ways to stay aligned.

5. Progress Review

Each session builds on previous ones, refining accuracy, rhythm, and confidence. Over time, children gain smoother transitions, clearer speech, and more independence in communication.

For a broader understanding of specialized interventions, explore Speech Therapy Cambodia and Early intervention: why starting speech therapy early matters.

Why Families Choose PROMPT at OrbRom Center

PROMPT-trained therapists at OrbRom combine technical precision with child-centered care. Every cue and word is chosen with purpose—to build communication that works in daily life. The result? Clearer, more confident speech for children who previously struggled to be understood.