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From: David Shapiro
Date: 14 Oct 2008
Time: 13:02:18 -0500
Remote Name: 72.71.67.203
Hi Davis, I see that you are asking about building and maintaining motivation to use fluency controls over time and place. This is one of the most vexing challenges of all intervention approaches. In an earlier post to Stacy, who asked about treating secondary characteristics, I addressed the importance of creating an opportunity for the client to succeed by focusing on, understanding, and increasing the fluent behaviors, before attending to the disfluent behaviors. Success, I have found, is the biggest motivator of all. For that reason, I keep in mind the following when designing intervention: collaboration, success, and fun. You might want to look at the earlier posting. Good luck. David Shapiro