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 |
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| 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 |