{"id":3245,"date":"2020-04-11T09:00:46","date_gmt":"2020-04-11T09:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/?p=3245"},"modified":"2020-02-11T18:52:55","modified_gmt":"2020-02-11T18:52:55","slug":"story-pantomime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/11\/3245\/","title":{"rendered":"Pantomime"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The case study \u201cPantomime\u201d shows what communication of this kind might look like and the effects it can have. Interventions of this kind can also be used to utilise the behaviour of a person suffering from mutism for the purpose of establishing <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHello. My name is….\u201d he began. \u201cShe can\u2019t talk,\u201d\nthe nurse told him. \u201cShe\u2019s had a stroke…\u201d The young patient\u2019s helpless\ngestures told him that she could not even understand what he was saying, with\nthe exception of a few words to which she replied with a nod or a shake of the\nhead. How can one communicate in such a situation? He used gestures to outline\na steep staircase with high steps in the air in front of him. He sighed; too\nsteep, too high! He shook his head in disappointment. Then he gestured with his\nhands to indicate a staircase with shallow steps, and he walked up the entire\nstaircase with his fingers. The woman watched attentively and nodded. He used\nhand gestures to outline a high mountain in the air. A climber (represented by\ntwo fingers) wanted to reach the top, but kept falling back down. Then he found\na less steep route which zigzagged upwards with many twists and turns, and he\nfollowed this path to the top. The woman\u2019s eyes began to light up, and the pantomime\ncontinued. \u201cNever losing sight of your goal\u201d and \u201cstrength\u201d were the next ideas\nto be expressed. The movements of a long-distance runner and a raised fist\nencouraged her to persevere and develop a fighting spirit. A clock with a\nticking hand told her that it would take time. He continued the game of\ncharades by placing his hands to the side of his head and pretending to fall\nasleep and wake up, fall asleep and wake up, over and over again until she had\nreached her goal, which he demonstrated by shading his eyes with his hand, peering\nout and pointing into the distance. He used his hands, his feet and his whole\nbody to demonstrate how her children would support her on the left and her\nparents on the right, and how they would all complete the long journey\ntogether. He stretched his fist up to the sky once again; she would have to put\nall her strength into the fight. Three days later he came back to visit the\npatient again, and the patient in the neighbouring bed spoke in her place. \u201cShe\u2019s\nbeen here for four weeks now, and before you came she wasn\u2019t improving at all.\nBut over the past three days she\u2019s made enormous progress.\u201d He spoke to the\npatient, and this time she understood every word. Then he said goodbye. \u201cGoodbye,\u201d\nshe said. That was the first word she learned to say again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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