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From: Vasu Parameswaran
Date: 12 Oct 2004
Time: 09:12:55 -0500
Remote Name: 151.200.90.2
Hi Peter and Darrell, Nice to be able to discuss stuttering with you both. Two questions: 1. Fluency shaping, by definition, is an attempt to squelch stuttering before it even starts. Isn't this what stutterers try and do anyway? For me, the very act of trying to avoid stuttering makes stuttering happen. So fluency shaping just digs the hole deeper. I am personally yet to see someone who has recovered from a pure fluency shaping approach. By recovered, I mean someone who doesn't substitute or reformulate words. Me not seeing such a person is of course not enough :-), but do you really know someone who, through techniques like easy onset etc. is now a normal speaker with no avoidances of any kind - words or situations. 2. It seems to me that the ingredients approach you talk about doesn't rest on any sound theory. I think that fluency shaping and stuttering modification by themselves may have solid rationales but their combination doesn't rest on any solid concept - you lose all rationale when you combine the therapies. Any thoughts?