The Teaching of Talking

Learn to Do Expert Speech Therapy at Home with Children and Adults

Mark A. Ittleman

• Publisher: Morgan James Publishing
• Year: 2012
• Print ISBN:
  9781614482536
• eBook ISBN:
  9781614482543
• Topic: Medicine
• Subtopic: Alternative & Complementary Medicine

In this guide, a speech pathologist teaches readers the methods implemented to improve talking in others, so if need be, they can do therapy on their own.
People with speaking difficulties are at the mercy of insurance companies who are determining how often and for how long speech therapy services should be delivered. It is also a disturbing reality that the likelihood for therapy frequency and length of care is contingent upon either the level of competence or comfort level of the speech-language pathologist or the financial policies of each institution. Often it has nothing to do with the severity or need for speech therapy. Our health care system is in no position to bankroll the long-term therapy needed by the many people who have moderate to profound speaking difficulties. The goal of The Teaching of Talking is to ensure that any loved one, caregiver, or speech-language pathologist is thoroughly knowledgeable in methods to help people improve talking since it is never known when the plug will be pulled on speech and language therapy services.
Ittleman says, "I see hundreds of people with speech and language difficulties each year. By reading and applying The Teaching of Talking, you will have the confidence to help your client or loved one, no matter what the insurance company or institution does. By learning to do what is in The Teaching of Talking, you will be more self-sufficient and will not have to rely on anyone to provide your loved one with expert speech therapy."
"The methods of home practice with family members will be of great value for patients with aphasia." —Daniel R. Boone, PhD, CCC/SLP

Stimulation of Questions/Interrogatives

Other Types of Questions
(Interrogative) and How to Stimulate Them

You may be finding the stimulation of speech and language somewhat easier now. A question is very similar to stimulating a statement.

Typical everyday questions are as follows; however, please make sure you pay very close attention to your PCD and note the questions they may ask.

Who Is It/That?

Example

SM:	Do you want to know, Who is it/that?
PCD:	(Nods)
SM:	YES?
PCD:	YES.
SM:	Ask me: WHO IS IT? or WHO IS THAT?

SM:	Do you want to know WHO ARE THEY?
PCD:	(Nods)
SM:	YES?
PCD:	YES.
SM:	Ask me: WHO ARE THEY?
PCD:	WHO ARE THEY?

What Are Those (Plural)?

Example

SM:	Do you want to know, What are those?
PCD:	(Nods)
SM:	YES?
PCD:	YES.
SM:	Ask me: WHAT ARE THOSE?
PCD:	WHAT ARE THOSE?

Optional: With more advanced PCDs, you can add an extra word (“the”) to extend the word count and make the sentence complete.

SM:	Do you want to know, What is (the) time?
PCD:	Mmmmmm.
SM:	YES?
PCD:	YES.
SM:	Ask me: WHAT IS (THE) TIME?
PCD:	WHAT IS TIME?

SM:	Do you want to know what time it is?
PCD:	Mmmmmm.
SM:	YES?
PCD:	YES.
SM:	Ask me: WHAT TIME IS IT? PCD: WHAT TIME IS IT?

When Is It/That?

Example

SM:	Do you want to know, When is the show?
PCD:	(Nods)
SM:	YES?
PCD:	YES.
SM:	Ask me: WHEN IS (THE) SHOW?
PCD:	WHEN IS SHOW?

When Are ________ (Plural)?

Example

SM:	Do you want to know, When are we going?
PCD:	(Nods)
SM:	YES?
PCD:	YES.
SM:	Ask me: WHEN ARE WE GOING?
PCD:	WHEN ARE WE GOING?

(These can be said in Two-Word chunks.)

Where Is It/That?

Where Are______ (Plural)?

Example

SM:	Do you want to know, Where are (the) keys?
PCD:	(Nods)
SM:	YES?
PCD:	YES.
SM:	Ask me: WHERE ARE (the) KEYS?
PCD:	WHERE ARE KEYS?

How Is It/That?

Example

SM:	You want to know, how is it?
PCD:	(Nods)
SM:	YES?
PCD:	YES.
SM:	Ask me: HOW IS IT/THAT?
PCD:	HOW IS IT/THAT?

How Are _______ (You; Second Person or Third Person Plural)?

Example

SM:	Do you want to know how I am?
PCD:	(Nods)
SM:	YES?
PCD:	YES.
SM:	Ask me: HOW ARE YOU?
PCD:	HOW ARE YOU?

Stimulating the Who Is It/That Question

SM:	Do you want to know who that is?
PCD:	(Nods)
SM:	YES?
PCD:	YES.
SM:	Can you ask: WHO IS IT/THAT?
PCD:	WHO IS IT/THAT?
SM:	Good. Can you tell me: WHO IS IT/THAT again?
PCD:	WHO IS IT/THAT?

SM:	Do you want to know who they are?
PCD:	(Nods)
SM:	YES?
PCD:	YES.
SM:	Excellent. Ask me: WHO ARE THEY?
PCD:	WHO ARE THEY?

If you want to take it a step further to a statement, it could go something like this:

SM:	Who is she?
SM:	Tell me: WHO IS SHE?
PCD:	WHO IS SHE?
SM:	IS SHE JUDY?
PCD:	Oh.
SM:	Can you tell me: SHE IS JUDY.
PCD:	JUDY.
SM:	Can you tell me: SHE IS JUDY.
PCD:	SHE IS JUDY.

Stimulating the What Is It Question

SM:	Do you want to know what it is?
PCD:	(Nodding)
SM:	YES?
PCD:	YES.
SM:	Can you say: WHAT IS IT?
PCD:	W...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Note to the Reader
• Dedication
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• The Teaching of Talking — A Conversational Approach to Helping the Person with a Mild to Profound Speech and Language Impairment Talk Better
• The Teaching of Talking — Helping the Person with Mild to Profound Speech and Language Impairment Talk Better
• The Ittle Principles of Talking
• Getting Down to the Actual Work
• Stimulation of Single-Word Speaking
• Stimulation of Phrases and Sentences
• Stimulation of Questions/Interrogatives
• The Tools of the Trade: What Every Speech-Language Pathologist and Speech Model Should Have at Their Disposal. 115
• The Concept of Massed Practice
• Your Approach to Mild Expressive Aphasia
• Speech as an Unconscious Process
• The Cure Versus Compensation and Adaptation
• Conclusion
• Epilogue
• About the Author
• Glossary of Terms
• Bibliography