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From: Charlie Healey
Date: 17 Oct 2007
Time: 15:31:12 -0500
Remote Name: 129.93.99.57
Yes, they have to be comfortable stuttering openly with you, the clinician, before he/she can be comfortable stuttering in front or acknowledging it to strangers. It's a slow but important process of acceptance. I do a lot of voluntary stuttering in the therapy room to help the client understand what is happening during a real stuttering moment. That way the client is also becoming more comfortable with his/her speech before you try to make changes in the speech.