Aug 30, 2007 12:24
1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next 3 sentences on your LJ along with these instructions.
5. Don't you dare dig for that "cool" or "intellectual" book in your closet! I know you were thinking about it! Just pick up whatever is closest.
6. Um, just do it if you want to.
Continuous Airflow: Use oninuous airflow as a stuttering treament target while using either the regulated breathing or a comprehensive fluency shaping in which it is an element; require the client to maintain uninterrupted and even airflow throughout an utterance; for procedures see Stuttering, Treatment of Stuttering: Specific Technigues or Programs.
Continuous Reinforcement: To initially establish a target behavior in the bginnign stage of treatment, use this schedule of reinforcement in which you reinforce every occurrence of a response; although effective in establishing new skills, ineffeicient in maintaining already established skills; therefore: use this schedule only in initial stage of treatment, gradually shift from continuous to intermittent reinforcement.
Contrastive Stress Drills: A treatment method used to promote both articulatory proficiency and natural prosody, especially the stress and rhythm aspects of spoken language; used in treating Apraxia of Speech in adults; using different phrases and sentences, the clinician teaches the client to stress different words; stressed words may be used to promote articulatroy proficicency or simply to vary prosodic features of speech.
~Hegde's PocketGuide to Treatment in Speech-Language Pathology: Third Edition~