The Motor Speech Master Series is a comprehensive two-day intensive workshop designed to help clinicians confidently identify, assess, and treat motor speech disorders using a sensory-motor framework grounded in motor learning, oral placement therapy (OPT), and evidence-based clinical practice.

Participants will begin by developing a thorough understanding of Childhood Apraxia of Speech (CAS), Childhood Dysarthria (CD), Oral-Motor Disorders (OMDs), phonological disorders, and articulation disorders. Through differential diagnosis, assessment strategies, and clinical reasoning, clinicians will learn to identify the underlying systems contributing to impaired speech production while recognizing the impact of dual diagnoses such as Autism Spectrum Disorder, Down syndrome, cerebral palsy, and other complex developmental conditions.

Building on this assessment foundation, the second day focuses on therapeutic intervention. Participants will learn Renee Roy Hill's Sensory-Motor Approach to speech development, integrating oral placement techniques, tactile cueing, motor learning principles, phonetic placement, and speech motor planning into functional therapy. Clinicians will explore practical strategies for facilitating vocalization, shaping speech sounds, sequencing phonemes and syllables, and progressing from isolated speech production to meaningful communication.

Through lectures, demonstrations, clinical examples, and case discussions, participants will gain practical skills they can immediately implement to improve speech intelligibility and communication outcomes for individuals with motor speech disorders across the lifespan.

• Differentiate motor speech disorders through evidence-based assessment and clinical reasoning.
• Apply sensory-motor and oral placement techniques to improve speech production and motor planning.
• Develop individualized treatment plans that integrate assessment findings with functional intervention strategies.
• Implement practical techniques that support speech intelligibility, communication, and carryover across a variety of motor speech disorders.

This presentation focuses on treatment methods related to the use of TalkTools® resources. Other similar treatment approaches will receive limited or no coverage during this lecture.