Freedom of Fluency

1. Freedom of Fluency

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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”

5. Mental Imagery • Imagination is EVERYTHING!!!! • Imagine it, do it! • See yourself ……….. • First get relaxed • Second, imagine a scene, recall DETAILS

6. 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….

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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

10. 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

11. 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

12. 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

13. 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

14. Stuttering Behavior Aspect • 1. ELU • 2. Fluency Enhancing Behaviors (FEBS) • Fluency shaping approach • Addresses • Diaphragmatic breathing • Easy onset (laryngeal control) • Light contacts and prolongations

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