Let Me Hear Your Voice Anne Marie Character Analysis
Section Summary
In this section of Let Me Hear Your Voice it becomes pretty evident that Anne-Marie is cured. Her development is nothing short of miraculous. The effectiveness of Anne-Marie’s behavioral intervention is occurring at a time when such an intervention was still considered by some as “morally reprehensible” (pg. 149) with the general consensus being that “Autistic children do not recover”. Yet here, after an eight-month period, Anne-Marie is able to empirically demonstrate with the Vineland test that she is functioning within normal developmental ranges for her age group with a 90% confidence interval.
Catherine has grown increasingly skeptical of holding therapy and Dr. Welch’s methodologies. She went to a few conferences that …show more content…
Through intense generalization training from Robin and Maurice, Anne-Marie has begun to initiate spontaneous interactions with her father as she did when she said: “Hi daddy” (pg. 143) after he got home from work. As well calling for her mother (pg. 147) when she was sick.
Another example includes when it became apparent that Anne-Marie might begin engaging in Self-Injurious Behaviors (SIB’s) Maurice and Bridget considered using extinction as a method of decreasing the undesirable behavior of face-slapping (pg. 145). When they were discussing this tactic for their behavioral intervention they were cautious to the fact that if they did not handle Anne-Marie’s SIB quickly and correctly then Anne-Marie might being conditioning their behavior during the therapy. Thus, they were able to prevent getting stuck in the “negative reinforcement trap”. This section of this book has numerous other examples of the behavioral modification strategies we are learning both in lecture as well as in our reading for PSY
In this section of Let Me Hear Your Voice it becomes pretty evident that Anne-Marie is cured. Her development is nothing short of miraculous. The effectiveness of Anne-Marie’s behavioral intervention is occurring at a time when such an intervention was still considered by some as “morally reprehensible” (pg. 149) with the general consensus being that “Autistic children do not recover”. Yet here, after an eight-month period, Anne-Marie is able to empirically demonstrate with the Vineland test that she is functioning within normal developmental ranges for her age group with a 90% confidence interval.
Catherine has grown increasingly skeptical of holding therapy and Dr. Welch’s methodologies. She went to a few conferences that …show more content…
Through intense generalization training from Robin and Maurice, Anne-Marie has begun to initiate spontaneous interactions with her father as she did when she said: “Hi daddy” (pg. 143) after he got home from work. As well calling for her mother (pg. 147) when she was sick.
Another example includes when it became apparent that Anne-Marie might begin engaging in Self-Injurious Behaviors (SIB’s) Maurice and Bridget considered using extinction as a method of decreasing the undesirable behavior of face-slapping (pg. 145). When they were discussing this tactic for their behavioral intervention they were cautious to the fact that if they did not handle Anne-Marie’s SIB quickly and correctly then Anne-Marie might being conditioning their behavior during the therapy. Thus, they were able to prevent getting stuck in the “negative reinforcement trap”. This section of this book has numerous other examples of the behavioral modification strategies we are learning both in lecture as well as in our reading for PSY