The Teaching of Talking Training Course
Final Day
This is the final day for registration to the Teaching of Talking Training Course. It is daybreak as this document goes out from my
computer.
I took the night off last night and watched the Unbroken. A film about an Italian American who was an Olympic runner and served in the armed forces as a bombardier. The story chronicles the events of his life adrift in a life boat for over 40 days and getting interned in Japanese prisoner of war camps and getting severely tortured, beaten, and physically punished by his captors, but always
taking the beatings and taking whatever punishment he was given. He refused to be broken, and that is why the film was entitiled the Unbroken. The story of resolve. To endure any hardship, punishment or torture, and that is what he did.
In a way I see people who have been stricken with strokes, aphasia, dysarthria, apraxia, hemiplegia, hemiparesis, paralysis, and muscular degeneration as prisoners of
their fate. Some succumb, while others have a certain resolve to endure any physical, mental, emotional, and behavioral limitation.
In the same category of the person who has been stricken with a speech difficulty related to these medical problems, I place the caregiver, wife, loved one or therapist. YOUR ROLE IS VITAL TO THE SPEAKING RECOVERY OF THE PERSON WITH THE SPEAKING DIFFICULTY.
WITHOUT YOU, THE CAREGIVER AND YOUR RESOLVE, THE PERSON WITH THE SPEAKING DIFFICULTY HAS LITTLE TO NO CHANCE OF SPEAKING RECOVERY. I MINCE NO WORDS HERE, BECAUSE I KNOW. I HAVE WORKED WITH COUNTLESS PEOPLE AND THERE ARE THE DOERS AND THE NON DOERS.
SO THIS NOTE IS TO THE FAMILY MEMBER OR THE CAREGIVER. THE SPEAKING RECOVERY
OF YOUR LOVED ONE IS REALLY IN YOUR HANDS. FORMALIZED THERAPY WILL NOT LAST VERY LONG, AND YOU ARE THE KEY TO SPEAKING RECOVERY.
TODAY IS YOUR LAST OPPORTUNITY TO JOIN THE TEACHING OF TALKING TRAINING. We close the doors at midnight. That is Eastern Daylight Time. I will stay awake for the last minute stragglers and then we will turn in for the night and hopefully get a good night sleep.
(Many of you have seen correspondence from me with a time stamp of 2, 3, or 4 in the morning.)
So we’re closing down at midnight. All offers are then taken off the table and it will be my turn, next to focus on all the folks who have signed up and registered. Many will have challenges with the speech and language of their loved ones. I will be there for them and will help them figure out the approach if they wish
me to correspond by e mail, or through weekly conference calls. I will be your coach, and will dedicate my mind and clinical skills to teach you what you must do to help your client or loved one. I would like to do a course on dysarthria next, so it will be a while before this course is offered again. (and it will cost more!
We close tonight at midnight.
If you have not taken the opportunity to watch the video, all the specifics, costs, plans, etc are in the last 5 minutes of the video. Here is the link in case you have decided to make the decision to take The Teaching of Talking Training Course today, and to move forward to do everything you can do for your loved one.
Here is the link. Click here, watch the video and then
click on the button below the video to join us.
Tonight I was speaking with my wife Malka and I remarked to her. “You know something honey, I have given this course the very best that I am capable of doing.” People will value this course; caregivers and therapists will be empowered and those with speaking difficulties should improve in direct proportion to the focus and intensity of the Caregiver.
To close this note, I received a note from a gentleman I had the pleasure of working with about 6 years ago. He has been on my subscriber list since The Teaching of Talking Book was first published and one of my biggest fans. When I met him he could not talk. His voice was loud and his speech slurred so badly you could not understand him. Whenever he would attempt to speak, people would stop in their tracks and be almost scared, since his
voice and speech were so profoundly slurred and foreign.
This is what Mark P. wrote to me this morning:
“Thoughts can never express my gratitude Mark. Thank you so much for helping me.”
Gig’em,
Mark P.
If you look at what Mark P. wrote 4 years ago in The Teaching of Talking book, Page iii
“Mark is responsible for me speaking again.” Mark
P.
I hope you will allow me to be your COACH. The doors close at midnight. I do not know if or when I will give this class again. Take advantage of time and DO IT NOW!
Please watch it and then press the button below the video to join our community.
Please register now, before
midnight.
Your Coach,
Mark
Mark A. Ittleman, M.S., CCC/SLP
Senior Speech Language Pathologist
Author, Seminar
Leader, Lecturer
Teaching of Talking & Teaching of Talking Training Courses
