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Freedom of Fluency. Freedom of Fluency, Daly. Components 1. Motor Skill Training Deliberate Phonation (humming) Normal Breath Easy Stretch (prolongations Release (Speech Naturalness) 2. Cognitive Strategies (cassette) Guided Relaxation Mental Imagery Affirmation Training
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Freedom of Fluency, Daly • Components • 1. Motor Skill Training • Deliberate Phonation (humming) • Normal Breath • Easy Stretch (prolongations • Release (Speech Naturalness) • 2. Cognitive Strategies (cassette) • Guided Relaxation • Mental Imagery • Affirmation Training • Positive Self-Talk
Quotes for Planning Therapy • “To offer token therapy is to get a token response.” Van Riper • “Monitoring desirable behavior is more effective than monitoring undesirable behavior.” Shames and Florance • “Behavioral methods alone are insufficient to produce durable results.” Lazarus • “Clinicians must deal with more than the speech of stutterers.” Van Riper • “If you wish to accomplish something in reality, first picture yourself achieving it in your imagination.” Lazarus
More Quotes • “Before a person can change, he must see himself in a new role.” Maltz • “If you dream you can begin it--boldness has power, genius and magic in it” Goethe • Stuttering clients Come to see us because they are stuck.” Daly • “Clients need someone they can trust.” Van Riper • “Positive attitude/High Attitude” anonymous • If you think you can, you probably will. If you think you can’t, you probably won’t”
Mental Imagery • Imagination is EVERYTHING!!!! • Imagine it, do it! • See yourself ……….. • First get relaxed • Second, imagine a scene, recall DETAILS
Affirmation Training • Jesse Jackson’s “I AM somebody!” • I can’t lose! Why? I’ll tell you why. I Have FAITH, COURAGE and ENTHUSIASM! • I am successful in • I can be more successful in • I can be more successful in my speech by….
Positive Self-Talk • Muma’s Inner Speech • Goal of Positive Self-Talk • replace client’s faulty programming with something better • means of consciously reprogramming you sub-conscious mind through the use of specifically worded phrases of self-direction • by describing a ‘new picture’ of ourselves, we can say to our subconscious “This is the me I want you to create, Now let’s get to work on it.” • Negative self-talk is common among stutterers
Positive Self- talk (continued) • These new statements contain the words • “I can” • “I am” • positive and emotionally changed • must be individualized and client written • What we think is almost entirely determined by the words we use. • Whenever a stutterer slips back into a negative frame of mind, have him mentally erase the negative idea and immediately think of something positive
Positive Self-Talk Examples, (cont) • Examples: • I am positive and confident. I know that I can handle any speaking situation by being in control of my speech • Each day I become more in control of my speech: at home, at work, in my mind and in my thoughts • I enjoy saying my name clearly and smoothly when answering the telephone
Positive Self Talk Examples (final ones) • I am in complete control of what I think and how I think. I choose to think only those thoughts which are of genuine benefit to me • I have the determination to succeed. My plan is a good one. I am excited about the new person I am becoming
Positive Self-Talk Assignment • Write a general self-talk statement • Write a specific self-talk statement • Use one for two weeks and monitor any self-changes
Reading References • Lazarus,A. In the Mind’s Eye. New York: Guilford Press, 1984 • Cousins, N. Head First: The Biology of Hope. 1989 • Luttrerman, D. Counseling the Communicatively Disordered and Their Families. Boston, 1984 • Siegel, B., Love, Medicine and Miracles, 1986 • Siegel, B. Love, Medicine and Healing, 1989
References for Positive Self-Talk • Porter, K & Foster J. The Mental Athlete: Inner Training for Peak Performance. 1986 • Bandler, Using Your Brain for Change: Neurolinguistic Programming, 1985
Stuttering Behavior Aspect • 1. ELU • 2. Fluency Enhancing Behaviors (FEBS) • Fluency shaping approach • Addresses • Diaphragmatic breathing • Easy onset (laryngeal control) • Light contacts and prolongations