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From: Barbara Dahm CCC-SLP;BRS-FD
Date: 11 Oct 2012
Time: 05:43:07 -0500
Remote Name: 109.186.67.151
Thank you so much for putting this analogy out for so many people to see. I don't play golf, but I read "The Inner Game of Tennis" years ago and I have incorporated it into my recommended reading list to clients ever since. I hope people will see this as more than a cognitive analogy. I believe it is a therapeutic model. As you said, "When the golfer identifies the target motor skills, performs them in a slow and deliberate manner, and practices with multiple, intensive repetition, these new motor movements become more automatic." The goal of the speaker, tennis player, golfer, gymnast, etc is to get the feel of the activity (in the case of people who stutter, normal speech production) and keep the mind out of the way so it can happen automatically.