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From: Judy
Date: 04 Oct 2012
Time: 22:55:34 -0500
Remote Name: 173.76.249.43
Hi Elizabeth, The 3rd graphic is intended to represent carryover to other situations. The window shopping sequence of tasks is described to a sensitive listener who is willing to practice with the client at a different store (e.g., a parent). The parent listens to an audio recording made by the client on his phone during a speech therapy session to hear what the more fluent speech sounds like. By doing this, the client is taking a sample of his greater fluency into a new situation. He listens to himself performing the speech tasks in a new setting. Ideally, the new/sensitive listener would participate in speech therapy with the client to really get the sense of the activity before transitioning to a new setting. I suggest this often, but, it never happens. I'm not sure why friends, grandparents, aunts, etc. are never available to attend speech therapy at least once. But, that's the reality. Window shopping is alot of fun once you get the hang of it. Getting the hang of it is a little tricky - I was amazed at the fluency breakdown even in the simplest language tasks in the fun and unpredictable context of a store. It was a reality check for me. I also found my role as SLP alot more challenging. I had to have my hierarchy of goals in mind and then search for interesting topics in the store. And, I got distracted! I would suddenly realize there was something I needed to buy at the store! I found that window shopping with students took alot more mental focus on my part. I tried the Speech4Good app with one student because then he could see his speech, take notes, and e-mail the speech sample to me. It was cool, but, he was so distracted by other features of his phone that we will need to wait for him to mature some more before trying it again. I've also tried the DAF Professional app on my android phone with a student, but use of the earbuds was too distracting. I couldn't quite get it to work as well with a bluetooth, which might be more natural looking and less distracting. I need to learn how to do that next. A.C. knew how to make a simple recording on his phone and text it to me. Thank you, Judy