Continuing reflections

Sem 2 2007

I had this one amazing client last year that I have to mention. I can’t say much about how they ended up in a Voice clinic despite having a language disorder, but I was glad I had the chance to work with this individual. They had a pragmatics (social use of language) disorder. Having a conversation with them was like trying to talk to a shy stone hiding in a cave... In the first session I set aside 20 minutes of conversational assessment *us talking*, and by the end of it I was fidgeting and almost willing to give out my PIN if that would have her participate. In the last session, we had a 20 m conversation after I set aside only 10 minutes for a reassessment. All I did was went through how to have a conversation, step by step, every week. We even watch bits of Sweet Home Alabama. The part where he proposed in Tiffany’s just for funsies. Other bits to analyse conversations. I enjoyed that clinic placement, I felt like I had a lot of input into the directions I went with my clients.