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VAST-Autism provides help for spoken language, combining evidence-based best practices and technology to deliver remarkable results. "Extremely brilliant for all speech motor planning challenges." Kelly, Spectrum speech therapist VAST-Autism is a groundbreaking program that provides state-of-the-art therapy to students with autism and motor speech programming disorders such as apraxia. VAST-Autism combines the highly effective concept of video modeling with written words and auditory cues to assist individuals acquire relevant words, phrases and sentences so that they can speak for themselves. For kids and individuals with powerful visual skills, this can be a key to developing speech. Ongoing research and initial pilot studies indicate that students are highly interested in VAST videos, and will almost immediately attempt lip movements or touch their mouths in response to the models. After a few short weeks, a lot of students who were essentially nonverbal began word approximations and word attempts more readily. Perhaps, the best and most unexpected therapeutic improvements have been in the students’ ability to generalize skills. Individuals may start attending to the speaker’s oral motor movements during everyday communication and continue learning speech in a traditional, naturalistic manner. "I am a PreK Speech-Language Pathologist and have had tremendous success with students who will not attend to and/or imitate a verbal model." Early intervention speech pathologist The mirror feature promotes oral motor sequencing and self-monitoring. Using a mirror while practicing speech sounds can provide visual feedback to assist individuals improve their muscle coordination and sequencing for speech production. Visual input can be an necessary source of feedback in developmental apraxia of speech. “My students showed immediate results. To my surprise, after the FIRST trail, they started to vocalize some sounds.” Harumi, speech pathologist Videos are organized into a hierarchy of 5 categories beginning with syllables and ending with sentences. Each video gives a spoken target utterance that is preceded by the written word(s). Each word, phrase and sentence is concrete and has meaning that can be generalized and practiced throughout the day. Providing the written word will prevent a student from labeling a picture of a frog jumping as "go," a person laying on a mat as "break time" or labeling a swing as "weee." The ability to recognize the written target word(s) will increase functional communication and enhance acquisition of spoken language. The progression of VAST-Autism Videos is as follows: 1. Syllable Repetition 2. Single Syllable Words 3. Multi-Syllabic Words 4. Phrases 5. Sentences This “Core” apk represents the first release of the VAST-Autism tool. We intend to expand upon this offering through future apks and via the iTherapy platform. As it becomes accessible, we will provide more extensive info about the application, research and professional guidance surrounding its use on the web at: www.vastspeech.com and www.itherapyllc.com RESEARCH Early current research into the effectiveness of using VAST in combination with Virtual Reality Goggles to increase attention to relevant motor planning info for speech has shown to be effective. Video Modeling- A significant amount of research has shown video modeling to be rapid and highly effective not only in teaching fresh behaviors, but also in generalizing and maintaining these behaviors as well. Visual Language and Literacy- Kids and adults on the spectrum who have difficulty with speaking and writing, can learn to read and spell. The ability to read increases functional communication. Info that is not understood auditorally may be easily processed visually. Providing written word(s) to individuals with autism also prevents mislabeling concepts, for example, a vehicle would not be labeled "beep beep."