Creating Communication Risk Takers in Children with Suspected CAS


90-Minute Self-Study Video Course

Course Summary

Children with suspected childhood apraxia of speech (CAS) often avoid taking communication risks in speech therapy because they anticipate failure with talking tasks. Children with suspected CAS tend to be overly quiet during speech therapy sessions, and therefore don’t make significant progress on their speech goals. Through our interactions as speech-language pathologists, we can instill the perseverance, grit, and tenacity that these children need to deal with the challenges related to becoming intelligibly verbal. In this course, participants will gain specific strategies for helping minimally verbal children with suspected CAS become communication risk takers.

Learning Outcomes:  

As a result of this activity, the participant will be able to: 

  1. List the five types of risk that children with suspected apraxia face on a daily basis.
  2. Explain the importance of determining the child’s optimum challenge point during speech therapy.
  3. Describe five strategies for helping minimally verbal young children become communication risk takers.


Timed Agenda:          

  • Minutes 1-2 Introduction
  • Minutes 3-15 Diagnosis drives treatment
  • Minutes 16-30 Setting the stage
  • Minutes 31-40 The importance of risk-taking in early childhood
  • Minutes 41-50 Establishing a growth mindset
  • Minutes 51-80 Steps to creating communication risk takers
  • Minutes 81-90 Q & A


Meet the Speaker


Cari Ebert, MS, CCC-SLP is a pediatric speech-language pathologist in the Kansas City, Missouri area. She received her bachelor’s degree from the University of Iowa in 1993 and her master’s degree from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale in 1995. Cari is a therapist, consultant, author, product developer, and nationally recognized speaker who gets paid to do what she loves most—TALK! She specializes in autism, apraxia, and early intervention. Cari’s son has dual diagnoses of autism and apraxia, allowing her to engage audiences both as a professional and as a parent of a neurodivergent child. In 2018, Cari co-authored a book with Dave Hammer titled, The SLP’s Guide to Treating Childhood Apraxia of Speech. In 2020, she published a book on autism titled, The Learning to Learn Program. Visit www.cariebertseminars.com to browse Cari’s wide variety of speech therapy and early intervention products.  


Speaker Disclosures:

Financial: Cari Ebert receives royalties from all product sales on her website. She also benefits financially from sales of this self-study course.

Non-financial: Cari Ebert has a son with autism and apraxia and shares personal experiences in her seminars.

This course is approved for Individual use only. For groups
interested in purchasing this course please contact [email protected]

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