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From: Libby Oyler
Date: 10/15/03
Time: 11:45:11 PM
Remote Name: 209.105.186.241
Desensitization needs to occur throughout the therapy process for a large percentage of CWS. I love to give workshops on this and easily spend a day talking about effective therapy for CWS. Since approximately 84% of CWS also fall into the highly sensitive range, effective therapy generally needs to address the person who is also very sensitive. An integrated therapy approach seems to address the salient issues of many children who stutter. Helping the sensitive child who stutters to kinesthetically tune into types of stuttering, the voicing characteristic, and different levels of intra-oral tension does help to reduce the child's scare about stuttering behavior. This suggestion is only one of many desensitization activities. Guitar (1998) does write about some desensitization activities for CWS. Elaine Aron (2002) writes very effectively about dealing with sensitivity in children (not a book on the disorder of stuttering).