Stick It! Therapy™ Program

Stick It! Therapy© is based on a therapeutic concept and dilemma familiar to all Speech and Language Pathologists and Audiologists providing treatment with a view toward changing a behavior.  All therapists, for that matter, SLP’s, OT’s, PT’s and beyond, are faced with the problem of practice and generalization of learned skills.  Practice simply refers to the patient practicing a newly learned behavior. Generalization is the term used for moving a particular learned skill from one arena to another.  For example, if the therapist is teaching production of the “s” sound, her job is to help the patient move from production of the sound in isolation, across word positions, at the word level, at the sentence level and so on with the ultimate goal being that the patient use the new behavior, that is, producing the “s,” at a conversational level, and the error behavior (in this case the error could have been deletion, distortion or replacement of the “s” sound) is to be ultimately eliminated.  Practice is the redundant review of a newly learned behavior, done to some extent as a part of the treatment session, but more importantly refers to the work done outside of the therapy session itself.  The dilemma of generalization is typically that the patient does well in the therapy session or the therapeutic environment but fails to utilize the newly learned behavior beyond that setting.  The patient may even do well within their own practice sessions done between therapeutic interventions, but does not carry the skill over to other settings.  This is most keenly felt when the targeted behavior or new skill has reached an advanced stage, such as conversation (continuing with our speech example), wherein the targeted skill is being utilized during treatment and practice but has not transitioned over to functional settings, such as talking among friends, at a restaurant, on shopping trips, etc., wherein the patient reverts to the habitual error behavior.

Stick It! Therapy™ addresses both practice and generalization issues ongoing, from the very early stages of intervention, through carryover of skills, from one level of the treatment to the next to ultimately fully having incorporated the learned skill to everyday use.  Not only will Stick It! Therapy™ address both of these therapeutically frustrating outcome roadblocks, but it will expedite achieving the therapeutic outcome in less than half the time!

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www.IndependentTherapistsNetwork.com
‘aka’ The Independent Speech Pathology Network.

For advice on how to incorporate Stick-it! Therapy ™ for your child’s or patient’s needs, contact us and we’ll be happy to set up a consultation with your family and/or therapist.