Workbook Activities

Each unit of the workbook has specific goals to be achieved and the activities necessary to achieve them.

Stuttering Online Therapy – Exercises by Unit

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Unit 1: The Dynamic Process of Speaking
Goals:	Activities:
To gain a general understanding of the normal processes of speech production	Activity 1: Obtaining a speech sample
To gain awareness of how the system generates stuttered speech	Activity 2: Exploring how you produce speech
To become aware of your readiness to change the way you generate speech	Activity 3: Deciding if you are ready for the process of change
	Activity 4: Exploring thoughts that prevent change

Unit 2: Internal Speech
Goals:	Activities:
To experience automatically formulated internal speech	Activity 1: Developing awareness of your internal speech
To learn to focus on internal speech when speaking aloud	Activity 2: Speaking silently
To allow articulation to automatically reflect internal speech	Activity 3: Formulating internal speech silently and aloud
To reduce speech related avoidance behaviors	Activity 4: Identifying avoidance behaviors
To talk openly about the subject of stuttering	Activity 5: Talking about stuttering

Unit 3: Discovering Your Voice
Goals:	Activities:
To experience your natural voice	Activity 1: Exploring how you create a speaking voice
To focus internally on sending energy to your vocal folds	Activity 2: Generating a speaking voice with ease
To generate your voice as an isolated activity	Activity 3: Focusing internally to generate your voice
To allow your voice to reflect the intonation pattern of your internal speech	Activity 4: Generating voice while doing other things
To develop a new mindset as a speaker	Activity 5: Changing the tone of your voice
	Activity 6: Developing a new mindset as a speaker

Unit 4: Speech is Sound
Goals:	Activities:
To develop your awareness that speech is a progression of syllables	Activity 1: Generating vowel sounds
To generate vowel sounds as the nucleus of every syllable	Activity 2: Generating vowel sounds with meaning
To generate vowel sounds as an impulse to the voice	Activity 3: Reading one syllable at a time
To use vowel sounds as the unit for generating speech	Activity 4: Building Spontaneous as a progression of syllables
To understand how various factors result in stuttered speech	Activity: 5 Analyzing how various factors result in stuttering

Unit 5: Developing Ideas
Goals:	Activities:
To focus on thoughts, including imagination, memory and knowledge when generating speech	Activity 1: Using imagination to generate speech
To formulate all aspects of language automatically	Activity 2: Concentrating on visual Images
To send energy to the vocal folds while developing thoughts	Activity 3: Concentrating on images in the mind’s eye
To begin using the new speech production process in various speaking situations	Activity 4: Developing ideas spontaneously
To build a self-image of a person who is able to speak with ease	Activity 5: Spontaneous conversations
To become aware of your progress	Activity 6: Broadening your circles of communication
	Activity 7: Building your self-image as a speaker
	Activity 8: Analyzing your progress

Unit 6: Putting It All Together
Goals:	Activities:
To use parallel processing of all system functions	Activity 1: Practicing in steps
To get used to focusing on thoughts and ideas	Activity 2: Pretending to be a ventriloquist
To let go of control over language formulation	Activity 3: Simultaneous writing and speaking
To get used to making vowels as an impulse to the voice	Activity 4: The pros and cons of change
To get used to letting your mouth move automatically	Activity 5: Finding solutions to problems
To weigh the value of changing the way your generate speech
To develop the ability to solve problem

Unit 7: Adapting to the New Speech Process
Goals:	Activities:
To gain more experience in using your speech generating system the new way	Activity 1: More experience in reading
To gain confidence in your ability to speak automatically	Activity 2: More experience in spontaneous speech
To self-correct errors with ease	Activity 3: Making a commitment for change
To make a commitment to adopt the new way of speaking in your life	Activity 4: Approaching the speaking experience rationally
To think rationally about the speaking experience	Activity 5: Rewarding change
To find ways to reinforce your efforts

Unit 8: Building for the Future
Goals:	Activities:
To use your new way generating speech in a variety of situations	Activity 1: Telephone talk
To make a realistic appraisal of the progress you have made	Activity 1: Face to face talking
To make your new way of speaking a habit	Activity 1: Building a new habit
To set goals for the future	Activity 1: Continuing to analyze your progress
To help yourself by promoting an understanding of stuttering	Activity 1: promoting an understanding of stuttering
To realize that you can continue the therapy process as part of your life	Activity 1: Maintaining achievements
To explore ways of strengthening and maintaining achievements	Unit 1: The Dynamic Process of Speaking

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