Stuttering Online Therapy CTI

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

Unit 3: Discovering Your Voice

Goals

· To experience your natural voice

· To focus internally on sending energy to your vocal folds

· To generate your voice as an isolated activity

· To allow your voice to reflect the intonation pattern of your internal speech

· To develop a new mindset as a speaker

Activity 1: Exploring how you

create a speaking

voice

Activity 2: Generating a

speaking voice with

ease

Activity 3: Focusing internally

togenerate your

voice

Activity 4: Generating voice

while doing other

things

Activity 5: Changing the tone of your voice

Activity 6: Developing a new

mindset as a speaker

Unit 4: Speech is Sound

Goals

· To develop your awareness that speech is a progression of syllables

· To generate vowel sounds as the nucleus of every syllable

· To generate vowel sounds as an impulse to the voice

· To use vowel sounds as the unit for generating speech

· To understand how various factors result in stuttered speech

Activity 1: Generating vowel

sounds

Activity 2: Generating vowel sounds with meaning

Activity 3: Reading one syllable at a

time

Activity 4: Building Spontaneous

speech as a progression

of syllables

Activity: 5 Analyzing how various

factors result in stuttering

Unit 5: Developing Ideas

Goals

· To focus on thoughts, including imagination, memory and knowledge when generating speech

· To formulate all aspects of language automatically

· To send energy to the vocal folds while developing thoughts

· To begin using the new speech production process in various speaking situations

· To build a self-image of a person who is able to speak with ease

· To become ware of your progress

Activity 1: Using imagination to

generate speech

Activity 2: Concentrating on visual

Images

Activity 3: Concentrating on images

in the mind’s eye

Activity 4: Developing ideas

spontaneously

Activity 5: Spontaneous

conversations

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

· To use parallel processing of all system functions

· To get used to focusing on thoughts and ideas

· To let go of control over language formulation

· To get used to making vowels as an impulse to the voice

· To get used to letting your mouth move automatically

· To weigh the value of changing the way your generate speech

· To develop the ability to solve problem

Activity 1: Practicing in steps

Activity 2: Pretending to be a

Ventriloquist

Activity 3: Simultaneous writing and

Speaking

Activity 4: The pros and cons of

change

Activity 5: Finding solutions to

problems

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

Unit 8: Building for the Future

Goals

· To use your new way generating speech in a variety of situations

· To make a realistic appraisal of the progress you have made

· To make your new way of speaking a habit

· To set goals for the future

· To help yourself by promoting an understanding of stuttering

· To realize that you can continue the therapy process as part of you life

· To explore ways of strengthening and maintaining achievements

Activity 1: Telephone talk

Activity 1: Face to face talking

Activity 1: Building a new habit

Activity 1: Continuing to analyze your

progress

Activity 1: promoting an

understanding of stuttering

Activity 1: Maintaining achievements