A short YouTube transcript from Ming @ Agents of Speech explaining the speech-therapy technique called the 'contrastive element command' (a form of sentence comprehension). The speaker contrasts stepwise commands with contrastive commands and notes that contrastive commands emphasize two key words or pieces of information in a sentence.
Instead of listening to the whole thing, they just need a guess. Right. So that's why they're not trained to listen. Okay, so how do you do is to check with a decontextualized command. Right. So in the speech therapy industry, we have something called a contrastive element command. Right. Very long. Right. Some people don't like it. Some people like it. And what it is is actually just sentence comprehension, basically. And in some practices, I see, you know, like mans can come in two ways. There's a stepwise command. First, do this and then do this. And then there's the contrastive command, which in a sentence, there are two keywords or pieces of information that are very important.
