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From: Dr. Kay Monkhouse
Date: 22 Oct 2004
Time: 16:23:19 -0500
Remote Name: 141.150.106.133
Dear Amanda, Indeed, I have found the model to be a useful tool in explaining all areas of skill acquisition from riding a bike, learning to swim, or learning a foreign language. The behavioral response to the clinical task tells the clinician when the client is ready to move forward and the choice of those clinical tasks will depend upon the clinician’s experience and judgment. The “post hoc whoops” is the ultimate client behavior I look for, because that tells me that s/he recognizes independently that there was an “old” response, and there is a quick self-correction to the newly learned material that has previously been attainable only with clinician support. Once I hear that response, I know that we are on the right track for ongoing change where the client is able to become his/her own clinician. It is still too early for the new response to generalize to other environments, but it has been my experience that there is no regression for that particular task at that particular level once the post hoc whoops has occurred.