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From: Walt Manning
Date: 01 Oct 2008
Time: 17:32:07 -0500
Remote Name: 141.225.97.59
JonesD, As Dale suggested, modeling the behavior for the speaker and taking turns with him/her may provide the support the person needs to practice beyond the treatment setting. Working with the speaker to construct heirarchies or ladders of increasingly difficult communication situations is often essential to transferring abilities to daily situations. You might have the person role play some of these situations and them immediately leave the treatment setting and do some experiments - that is, have the speaker predict their success in using EOs or whatever, and then rate their level of success following the experience. Fluency in the treatment setting doesn't mean much - just as scoring baskets on the practice court. It's usually more effective to seek out gradually more difficult game conditions where there are things like time pressure, distractions, unexpected and dynamic circumstances. Hope this is helpful.