Can a Fluent Stuttering Therapist be as Good as a Stuttering Fluency Therapist?

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Paths to understanding

From: Vivian Sisskin
Date: 02 Oct 2008
Time: 13:07:57 -0500
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Thanks Joes! I loved the article, and this does come up a lot. I think that a PWS can find a unique connection with a clinician who stutters that he or she may not find in a clinician that does not stutter. Connection can also be developed in other ways inherent in the therapeutic alliance, for example, mutual trust and respect, and mutual beliefs that the client can change and the therapy has value. Despite my years of pretending to struggle in front of others to try to understand the experience of stuttering, I will never know what that specific shame is about. However, I can call upon my own experiences with shame in order to approach that understanding, and it does help.

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