MU158 Chapter Notes - Chapter 16: Speech-Language Pathology
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Focus on singing pop love songs tara knew well. Providing tara with opportunity to use voice in enjoyable activity that was guaranteed to be successful. Practicing articulating words clearly to support work being done in speech pathology. After 2 months, tara still unable to produce simple consonant and vowel combinations. Speech patholigst implemented the program over the following three months. Mt continued to provide tara with opportunities to sing in order to maintain clarity of articulation. Expressed issues that could potentially lead to low therapy motivation. By singing meaningful songs, tara able to express frustration, anger, or grief around acquired disability and loss of daughter. Despite intensive efforts, tara remained unable to generate words independently outside of singin context. Each word placed at end of a phrase. Clients more likely to recall final word of phrase than other words in phrase. One phrases were constructed, they were set to music. Created melody for each phrase using limited pitch range.
