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From: Judy Butler
Date: 10/9/03
Time: 7:42:53 PM
Remote Name: 208.244.111.105
Thank you for this article. I liked learning about what makes something funny. Now I know better how to detect another change happening in my students/clients. Do you know how a person makes the change in perspective? How is it that Alan Rabinowitz (for example) can talk with such intensity about his childhood at the NSA convention that it made me cry. He has the distance but did not seem to see anything about his childhood as funny. Of course, I am not asking you to give an opinion about Mr. Rabinowitz, I am only using my perception of his presentation as an example. I recall introducing humor into a session with a teen and it went over like a lead balloon. I worried that I had ruined the relationship right then and there. I gave a smile and mild laugh today with a college student, noting that the Conversational French class she was taking this sememster sounded like a PWS' nightmare. She gave me a tentative smile. Anyway, is there a way that SLPs guide clients toward humor or is it a by-product of progress in other areas of therapy?