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From: Tacy Erwin
Date: 10/16/03
Time: 12:23:26 PM
Remote Name: 216.61.127.41
Using humour as a means of encorporating positive energy into a therapy session is an extremely interesting concept that shines a light on effective stratgies for client who stutter. As therapists, we are structured to take our clients seriously as well as their speech disorder. Until now the concept has not ocurred to me to uitilize as a therapy approach. The article discusses change as the process that involves many emotions, and one of them being humour. Using this emotion to "break the ice" in a therapy session is facsinating in the sense that some people who stutter may find it diffucult to see the humour in their dysfluent speech. Its obvious that as a clinican your own personality must shine through in order for humour to occur, but how would you facilitate that humour in a non-humourous person? How would you generalize such positive emotions as humour into their everyday lives?