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From: Judy
Date: 02 Oct 2009
Time: 16:23:45 -0500
Remote Name: 74.104.112.9
David, I am trying to apply your ideas to the speech therapy setting. It seems as if every one of my clients has a unique profile; however, quality attention is necessary for treatment. I ask clients to notice and change the very subtle characteristics of voicing. Once this difficult task is accomplished in the quiet of an office, it becomes a challange all over again when we have to introduce a variety of "fluency disrupters". I've made the career-long assumption that this attention could be brought under one's control. Do you think this is really possible? It seems like you are talking about an organic condition of reduced auditory attention skills. Carryover is the ultimate challenge in stuttering. Do you think that organic auditory processes related to attention are possible obstacles? Do you think some clients would benefit from treatment for auditory-related problems instead of speech therapy? Also, I've never had a client willing to pursue DAF for long. They like the effect of greater fluency, but then they want to take the DAF headphones off and rediscover their own voice. They seem to want their own voice to be more fluent. Comments? I hope this makes some sense. Thank you, Judy