1. Fluency and modification therapy only works if clients are motivated to make
the changes in behavior. Several cycles may be needed before lasting effects
sink in.
Frog “Think Sessions”:
We produce activities that explicitly target a specific business problem. We
then use various worksheets, artifacts, methods, and techniques to encourage
our clients to think about their business in new ways. During a session, normal
meeting decorum is replaced with a highly focused, energized, and structured
approach to creativity. The session can last from several hours to several days,
and it demands that stakeholders reframe their understanding of their core
business. Through this reframing comes risk and uncertainty, but with that comes
reward and insight.
2. Speech therapy is not one-size fits all - different and unique approaches are
needed for each person. Can’t automate and simplify therapy.
Wolfgang Weinhart
There is no one absolute way to solve a graphic design problem or a
typographical problem.
3. Certain programs may deny the importance of emotions (physiological
reactivity) in stuttering,
Michael Beirut : “I’m always conscious of the context, the history, the specific
environment of anything that I design and what it is going to be operating
4. Fluency addiction, the conscious manifestation of which is popularly called
“Worshipping the Fluency God”, creates impossible goals.
Rob Austin, lee Devin:
Artful Making: What Managers Need to Know about How Artists Work.
Allowing solutions to emerge in a process of iteration, rather than trying to get
everything right the first time; accepting the lack of control in the process, and
letting the improvisation engendered by uncertainty help drive the process.
5. No therapy focuses on the preparation of spoken content...teaching stutterers
to choose wisely what they say, and focus it into a smaller, clearer message.
“I believe designers should eliminate the unnecessary,” Dieter Rams says. “less,
but better. Admirably radical reductionism. My aim is to omit everything
superfluous so that the essentail is shown to the best possible advantage.”
6. Intensive programs don’t have lasting results unless consistent support
is available.
AIGA: Just as important, however, is the value of a community in connecting
with other designers like you, who share the same needs and uncertainties.
At a time like this, when design job opportunities are more difficult to find, no
designer should feel alone or disconnected.
http://www.aiga.org/how-does-aiga-serve-emerging-designers/
7. Going to speech therapy may reinforce that you have a problem.
Ernst Schneider : the practice of not correcting his students’ creative work on
an individual basis, for fear that this would crush the creative impulse. Rather, he
selected certain common mistakes to correct for the class as a whole.
8. Speech therapy never truly helps unless the person is able to heal themselves,
almost like a self-therapy.
IDEO : Design thinking is a deeply human process that taps into abilities that
we all have but are overlooked by more conventional problem-solving practices.
It relies on our ability to be intuitive, to recognize patterns, to construct ideas
that are emotionally meaningful as well as functional, and to express ourselves
through means beyond words or symbols.
http://www.designthinkingforeducators.com/
9. OTHER ISSUES WITH SPEECH THERAPY FOR STUTTERERS
Therapy that works fine during sessions, doesn’t work in real world situations.
Need to be calm to use speech skills...when scared or stressed, people become obsessed with fear
and forget techniques.
Adults and teens have better results from university speech clinics, private practice clinics and
intensive programs than they received in school.
Most SLP have limited training and experience in treating stuttering.
Stuttering treatments other than speech therapy are not as successful .
Assistive Devices are not successful.
Therapies that require clients to assume an accepted personality (eloquent speaker, outgoing
performer) are not good.
Therapists may have a hard time working with severe stutterers.
Stutterers need to know that stuttering will not result in life-threatening consequences (stuttering
originates in the brain circuits the mediate survival reactions, fear, etc.)
Physicological and emotional reactivity to stuttering can become conditioned, and though it can be
lessened, it can never be totally erased.
Some therapists can see depression as the cause of stuttering, not the other way around.
Stuttering is a subversive disorder that will tend to undermine any positive strides the client can
make in other areas.
Recovered stutterers shouldn’t pass themselves off as speech therapists.
