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From: Jim McClure
Date: 10/21/03
Time: 12:45:55 AM
Remote Name: 68.164.5.176
Attitude -- or, more accurately, acceptance -- probably is the most critical element in coming to terms with stuttering. Advertising our stuttering to others demands that we first accept ourselves. When the NSA conducted a survey last year of more than 500 adults who stuttered, therapies that focused on changing attitudes were considered to be more successful than therapies that concentrated on speech mechanics. (Yet the majority of the SLP students that I have met seem to be studying fluency techniques in their course work.)