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From: Joseph Dewey
Date: 05 May 2010
Time: 20:34:43 -0500
Remote Name: 63.82.19.2
When I had therapy, I don't think they'd really developed cluttering therapies that integrate music into speech. I remember being hooked up to a tone/pitch machine, that measured how well I was able to duplicate tones. That was the first time I realized I had a big deficiency in that, but we really didn't spend much time on that machine, or related therapies. But, still, I started to wonder if there might be a related therapy that would be very beneficial. Here's my thought: 1) Measure how good the clutterer is at mimicking tones, and at trying to change tone and pitch on demand, without mimicking. There will be something with the clutterer in relation to this area where they are very weak. It might take a while to discover this, too, because they probably are covering up with another area they're strong in. #2) When you've found the area that they're very weak at, help them to improve this area by using "music therapy." Remember that they're probably very, very weak, so don't be afraid to be very basic for a long time, as they'll be building important building blocks. Example music therapies could be the therapist singing one line of a song, and then having the clutterer sing, and then analyzing the differences, and repeating until the clutterer can mimic all of the tones in that one line. This probably seems super basic, but it really will help the clutterer develop the skills to start controlling their speech.