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RACHEL TROUGHTON
Speech-Language Pathologist
Owner/Founder
5172 S Twilight Mist Way
Meridian, Idaho 83642
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(208) 352-2086
After 17 years of providing speech therapy in the public school system, coaching and supervising new clinicians and graduate students, presenting to professionals, and collaborating with professionals and students, Rachel's vision for Connecting Speech, LLC became clear. The best therapy never happens in a box; the best therapy utilizes all its assets.
Rachel didn't just want to give speech therapy; she wanted to be a speech coach and a speech collaborator with her clients. She wanted to teach them new skills and then provide a system for practice to help them refine those skills. Her "pay it forward" focus meant not only providing the best kind of services for her clients, but giving them the tools to continue making progress on their own.
She recognized a need for individualized, intensive therapy to teach new skills and gain consistency, but also a critical need for smaller, frequent bursts of practice to build automaticity and reduce effort. The more she can train parents, care-givers, educators, and new clinicians about speech correction techniques, the more more she can build capacity to provide the most rapid remediation possible.
She combines mass and distributed practice based on motor learning principals to teach new skills, teach parents how to facilitate practice, and promote both accuracy and generalization of correct speech sounds.
Gone are the days of once a week therapy without practice and follow up. Welcome to Connecting Speech, where we work together to make all the difference.
Learning to use a new speech sound is learning to use a new motor pattern. Much like improving muscle memory for playing a sport or instrument, changing a speech pattern takes skilled instruction and then frequent practice. When a new skill is taught it can feel difficult or awkward and can take time to perform correctly, but as the skill is repeated, it becomes easier and more consistent. As the skill is practiced, we increase the complexity of the skill and the context surrounding it. Like dribbling a basketball or playing scales on the piano, motor learning theory suggests that both mass and distributed practice is key.
Our team of licenced and certified speech-language pathologists has extensive experience and training in the field of speech and language therapy. We are dedicated to providing the highest quality of care and support to our clients.
Using Motor Learning Principles to Increase Progress in Decreased Time
Learning to use a new speech sound is learning to use a new motor pattern. Much like improving muscle memory for playing a sport or instrument, changing a speech pattern takes skilled instruction and then frequent practice. When a new skill is taught it can feel difficult or awkward and can take time to perform correctly, but as the skill is repeated, it becomes easier. Like dribbling a basketball or playing scales on the piano, motor learning theory suggests that both mass and distributed practice is key.
Mass practice consists of longer sessions with more opportunities to improve performance in a single session. Distributed practice refers to more frequent, shorter practice opportunities. While some studies indicate that different types of practice affect motor performance versus motor learning, the takeaway is that both are needed.
Connecting Speech uses a hybrid approach for service delivery to promote both types of learning behaviors. Longer, less frequent sessions facilitate improvements of skills and shorter, more frequent sessions facilitate generalization and long-term change.
We know you're busy; we know you have a budget; we know kids need to be able to say appropriate sounds as soon as possible in order to communicate needs and wants, relate to peers, and decode new words as they learn to read. Our mission is to create speech therapy within the time constraints of life, without unnecessary cost, and create change as quickly as possible.
At Connecting Speech we know that we accomplish the most when we work together. Our clients have limited time to make a lot of change, so we don't work in a box. Our hybrid speech therapy approach connects your specific speech needs with a combination of onsite therapy, virtual therapy, and training for home practice. We join forces to make and maintain change; we stay flexible to meet demands of busy schedules; we adjust your plan as needed.
Contact us for your free consultation by a speech-language pathologist and see what we can offer by working together.
Rachel has spent the last 19 years providing speech and language therapy and coaching new clinicians in the field. As a private clinician, her services include providing children and adults with onsite and telepractice speech therapy services as well as providing professionals and parents with training and support.
Rachel bridges many gaps in services through Connecting Speech, LLC. She strives to connect relationships through improved communication, to connect services to individuals with busy schedules, to connect effective strategies with caregivers to facilitate rapid remediation, and to connect practical coaching with new clinicians in the field of speech-language pathology.
Rachel specializes in speech sound disorders, working primarily with children who have articulation errors, phonological pattern errors, and highly unintelligible speech. Her hybrid approach to speech therapy utilizes a combination of mass and distributed practice motor learning principles to maximize the efficiency of therapy and empower caregivers to be partners in creating change.
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