Facilitating behavioral learning and habit change in voice therapy—theoretic premises and practical strategies
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Facilitating behavioral learning and habit change in voice therapy—theoretic premises and practical strategies. / Iwarsson, Jenny.
In: Logopedics Phoniatrics Vocology, Vol. Early Online, 2014, p. 1-8.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Facilitating behavioral learning and habit change in voice therapy—theoretic premises and practical strategies
AU - Iwarsson, Jenny
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - A typical goal of voice therapy is a behavioral change in the patient’s everyday speech. The SLP’s plan for voice therapy should therefore optimally include strategies for automatization. The aim of the present study was to identify and describe factors that promote behavioral learning and habit change in voice behavior and have the potential to affect patient compliance and thus therapy outcome. Research literature from the areas of motor and behavioral learning, habit formation, and habit change was consulted. Also, specific elements from personal experience of clinical voice therapy are described and discussed from a learning theory perspective. Nine factors that seem to be relevant to facilitate behavioral learning and habit change in voice therapy are presented, together with related practical strategies and theoretical underpinnings. These are: 1) Cue-altering; 2) Attention exercises; 3) Repetition; 4) Cognitive activation; 5) Negative practice; 6) Inhibition through interruption; 7) Decomposing complex behavior; 8) The ‘each time–every time’ principle; and 9) Successive implementation of automaticity.
AB - A typical goal of voice therapy is a behavioral change in the patient’s everyday speech. The SLP’s plan for voice therapy should therefore optimally include strategies for automatization. The aim of the present study was to identify and describe factors that promote behavioral learning and habit change in voice behavior and have the potential to affect patient compliance and thus therapy outcome. Research literature from the areas of motor and behavioral learning, habit formation, and habit change was consulted. Also, specific elements from personal experience of clinical voice therapy are described and discussed from a learning theory perspective. Nine factors that seem to be relevant to facilitate behavioral learning and habit change in voice therapy are presented, together with related practical strategies and theoretical underpinnings. These are: 1) Cue-altering; 2) Attention exercises; 3) Repetition; 4) Cognitive activation; 5) Negative practice; 6) Inhibition through interruption; 7) Decomposing complex behavior; 8) The ‘each time–every time’ principle; and 9) Successive implementation of automaticity.
KW - Faculty of Humanities
KW - behavioral learning
KW - habit change
KW - voice therapy
U2 - 10.3109/14015439.2014.936498
DO - 10.3109/14015439.2014.936498
M3 - Journal article
VL - Early Online
SP - 1
EP - 8
JO - Logopedics Phoniatrics Vocology
JF - Logopedics Phoniatrics Vocology
SN - 1401-5439
ER -
ID: 122607590