Once Upon a Brain Aneurysm

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Re: Question...

From: Brian Humphrey
Date: 16 Oct 2007
Time: 10:36:15 -0500
Remote Name: 137.52.96.230

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Leslie Lemoine wrote: I was wondering how difficult it was to provide "self-therapy"? Do you find that you were harder on yourself than another clinician would have been? How did you reward yourself for improvements made? - - - - - Leslie, It was easy to do self-therapy. As my stuttering clients progress, I teach them to manage their home treatment programs routinely, and I prepare them to manage their own cases once they are disissed. One thing became clear: when a clinician is his/her own client, he/she can never hide anything from the clinician. My clinician always knew when I was not complying with the program he had worked out for me. :) There are many kinds of reinforcement. I didn't have to use extrinsic reinforcement -- I didn't have to tell myself "good job" or give myself a token. My reinforcement was intrinsic. I knew when I was "responding according to plan" and I knew when modifications to my speech were resulting in an easier time speaking. We want all of our clients to develop intrinsic reinforcement. I have been the only client I have ever had who would let me into his thoughts so I could monitor the process. :) - - - - - by the way, I have been essentially managing my own voice treatment for the past several months, occasionally checking in with my colleague, Dr. Helene Fisher. BH


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