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From: Retz
Date: 13 Oct 2004
Time: 10:52:33 -0500
Remote Name: 206.40.121.75
Jenny- Thanks for your comments. Great question... When I speak of a Results Based Treatment Approach, I am speaking about what the outcome of any therapy approach may be. What results does one want.... I know of no research that supports traditional therapy approaches emphasizing fluency shaping/fluency training or stuttering modification techniques resulting in, or leading to, natural speech release -- they do lead to fluency shaped/fluency trained speech or modification of stuttering speech. Neither is natural speech. I feel confident when I say this--traditional therapy approaches have led the majority of those of us who stutter to choose silence. Those of us who stutter do, contrary to popular belief, have natural speech, even if we do stutter. If the goals of therapy are to stop or control stuttering, you run the risk of the ULTIMATE STUTTERING BEHAVIOR (SILENCE) being developed/chosen by a child or teen who stutters. I do know, both on the personal and professional level, that this hideous outcome will not have the opportunity to develop/occur if one engages in listening/talking therapy. And this is not an easy cookbook method. The professional must really work much harder than in traditional therapy...it requires greater time, effort and education/educating on the professionals part. The biggest risk you run with a type of therapy approach based on Therapuetic Listening is the release of natural speech -- which the CWS/TWS already possesses. Good luck in your studies and thanks for participating in the conference!