Knowing How to Be: the Values of a Profession. The Observation of the Bodily Self and the Effective Communicative Style in the Basic and Post-Basic Training of the Speech Therapists
Sabrina Petyx, Maria Rosa Paterniti, Piera Buttitta
Our communication acts are the vectors we use to transmit, thoughts, needs, emotions and relationships. This, in the field of speech therapy and not only, requires the ability to observe and listen, to be empathetic, flexible, creative but also competent, precise and meticulous, in order to identify, plan and guide the best therapeutic path for each individual patient. To this end, there are no absolute truths but the knowledge, skills, rules and attitudes shared by the international scientific and academic community, which must be able to build on the personal training path, so as to be modeled on the new specificities that will arise in the professional exercise. The rule is the skeleton of every therapy and every relationship and in the rule we find the fixed points to lean on to achieve one goal after another but in the imagination, in the intuition, in the adaptability of a path that rule can give us the better than himself. None of this can be effectively accomplished without a permanent training work that the speech therapist must perform on himself to refine and enhance his personal tools, which can be expressed through a conscious and competent use of his body self, both perceptive and communicative.
Keywords
Skills, Being, Training, Communication, Observation.