Seven Principles of Stuttering Therapy: Part 2

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Re: Principle 3 Question

From: Charlie Healey
Date: 20 Oct 2008
Time: 18:11:06 -0500
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Knowing what to focus on first in therapy after completing a CALMS evaluation is somewhat easy because you are able to see which factors have the highest scores (most disordered function) and start with those factors. However, I always try to keep in mind that whatever I do in therapy, it is from a multidimensional perspective. For example, if one of the first things I want to do is increase a client's awareness of stuttering, I have them purposely stutter in an easy way (motor component) and then have them rate the anxiety they feel (affective component), tell me what they are think or notice about their speech during that moment (cognitive component), and then focus on the sound or word they are having trouble with (linguistic component) and who recognize that it's easy because they are talking just to me (social component). So, for everything activity I do in therapy, regardless of what the focus may be, I try to think through the five CALMS factors and see how I can include as many as possible in the activity.


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