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From: Sandra Merlo
Date: 20 Oct 2009
Time: 12:50:01 -0500
Remote Name: 143.106.1.146
Dear Colette, thank you for your comments and questions. I think you can use singing and choral reading to demonstrate to your patient/client that fluency is a flexible skill. In these cases, you can demonstrate that he/she is able to achieve more fluency than in spontaneous speech. But I don’t think these are the best examples, because fluency of singing and choral reading cannot be easily transferred to spontaneous speech. I think a better example is when you can use an experience of spontaneous speech from the patient him/herself. For example, using the telephone was very difficult in the past and now it is being a little bit easier; he/she used to have very strong blocks and now it’s easier. Perhaps you think it’s strange, but you can also use the opposite examples: fluency was better in the past and now it’s worse (this also shows that fluency is a flexible skill!). Regards, Sandra