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From: Brandi, Graduate Student, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
Date: 09 Oct 2004
Time: 20:10:18 -0500
Remote Name: 146.163.52.12
Your description of your classroom experience really put stuttering into perspective for me. It is easy to see why individuals who stutter turn to avoidance tactics! Other individuals who stutter have expressed similar decisions to accept their stuttering, rather than avoid it. Many have reported improved fluency, as a result. This may be a very important factor in minimizing disfluency, but do you believe that it is possible for individuals who receive stuttering therapy to experience this type of acceptance when therapy techniques often focus on 'controlling' stuttering events? In other words, do you believe that techniques aimed at reducing disfluency are actually telling clients that it is not okay to stutter?