Nuffield Dyspraxia Programme NDP3

NDP3® Training Now Available 24-7 – View Anytime on-demand - https://www.ndp3.org/training-courses/

NDP3 editor Dr Pam Williams continues her acclaimed series of expert training modules in the assessment and management of childhood apraxia of speech throughout 2021.

“I found it very informative. The time, materials, presenter were all fantastic”

Designed for SLTs/SLPs working with CAS/DVD, these Zoom-based courses span assessment and therapy in detail …

Modules 1+2 - The nature of CAS/DVD - span the nature of DVD/CAS, assessment, differential diagnosis, case profiling, intervention approach, treatment planning and goal setting.

“Pam is fantastic at delivering training. It is wonderful to be able to learn from the expert”

Modules 3+4 - A deeper look at assessment and treatment - take a deeper look at NDP3 with supported assessment, treatment planning, goal-setting exercises, resources and progress monitoring.

You can find out more, ask questions and book here:
https://coursebeetle.co.uk/cpd-masterclasses/

“I loved everything about this course. Lovely to meet Pam and the fact that it was so accessible being online felt like I was sitting right in front of her from the comfort of my own home”

CPD Masterclasses - Course Beetle Due to the ongoing pandemic, we are delivering our CPD Masterclasses via Zoom. If you need to access the learning materials associated with your course, please visit our Learning Resource Portal.

NDP3 editor Dr Pam Williams is presenting a series of online training modules for SLT/SLPs from June.

Modules 1+2 on June 23-24 span the nature of DVD/CAS, assessment, differential diagnosis, case profiling, intervention approach, treatment planning and goal setting.

Modules 3+4 on 30 June and 1 July 2020 take a deeper look at NDP3 with supported assessment, treatment planning, goal-setting exercises, resources and progress monitoring.

You can find out more and book here:

https://coursebeetle.co.uk/nuffield-dyspraxia-online-june-2020/

Coronavirus: Free use of NDP3 Speech Builder for Speech Therapy Telepractice/Home working/Parents and carers

If you don’t yet use NDP3 Speech Builder: you can use NDP3 Speech Builder free of charge to create resources for sharing by email or telepractice screen-sharing. Please use the download guide below. After 4 weeks, the software will ask for a license key - just email us when this happens and we’ll send you a key free of charge.

If you already use NDP3 Speech Builder in your practice/clinic/hospital and need to install a copy to work from home, please send us a note of your license key or practice name and we’ll reset your key so that you can use it at home.

Please cut and paste the link below to visit the NDP3 Speech Builder help and download page:

https://www.ndp3.org/ndp3-speech-builder-help/

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We've updated our page "The Nuffield Dyspraxia Programme (NDP3) and the Evidence Base" (https://www.ndp3.org/evidence-base/) to reference the most recent and relevant papers dealing with developmental verbal dyspraxia/childhood apraxia of speech intervention and effectiveness - we hope you find it useful.

Clinical evidence

New NDP3 bundles and (slightly) reduced prices - https://www.ndp3.org/buy-ndp3-online/

A fascinating 'Ask the Experts' feature in this month's Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists 'Bulletin' magazine on Child Speech Sound Disorder - includes a contribution from Dr Jan Broomfield and NDP3 Editor Dr Pam Williams dealing with differential diagnosis ... https://www.rcslt.org/

Nuffield Dyspraxia Programme NDP3 updated their business hours.

Never too soon to start

A timely reminder that early intervention will always be key to the successful management of developmental disorders ... this article by Heather Saunders - revisited here over ten years after it was first published in Speech & Language Therapy in Practice - describes how she used NDP3 to successfully treat a pre-school child with autism and verbal Dyspraxia.

How I used a systematic approach (2): Phonology – Never too soon to start Saunders, H. (2006) Heather Saunders on why the Nuffield Dyspraxia Programme 3 was key to improvement made by a preschool child with autism and verbal dyspraxia. A speech and language therapist’s tool box should include a variety of approaches to suit a client’s clinical need and learning style....

Randomised Controlled Trial (Murray, McCabe & Ballard, 2015)

Twenty-six children, aged 4 to 12 years, diagnosed with mild to severe Childhood Apraxia of Speech (CAS) were randomly assigned to receive treatment either with the NDP3 or with Rapid Syllable Transition (ReST) treatment. Treatment was delivered intensively in one hour sessions, four days a week over a three week period by student speech and language pathologists attending the University of Sydney, who were trained and supervised closely by the authors. The results showed large treatment effects and significant generalisation to untreated stimuli for both interventions. Therefore, both NDP3 and ReST treatment were found to have support for clinical use.

For further details, see:

Murray, E. McCabe, P., & Ballard, K (2015) A randomized controlled trial for children with childhood apraxia of speech comparing Rapid syllable transition treatment and the Nuffield Dyspraxia Programme (3rd edition). Journal of Speech, Language & Hearing Research, vol 58 (3), 669-686.

NDP3 is included as an intervention on The Communication Trust’s What Works database and currently has a rating of moderate evidence, in line with other published speech interventions. Within the evidence, successful outcomes have been reported for NDP3 both in RCT and case studies.