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From: Joe K.
Date: 03 Oct 2008
Time: 15:25:31 -0500
Remote Name: 66.195.11.231
Thanks for your thoughts, Retz. It's hard NOT to feel good about our field during ISAD time (thanks, Judy). You pose a difficult point for me... I am a therapist who believes in "techniques," but I am also a therapist who believes in different techniques for different people and even different techniques for different people at different times along their journey. So it would be hard for me to model any kind of technique until the client and I mess around with his/her speech enough to see what feels "good" to the client... and perhaps the "techniques" I use are not even something extra to do, but a way to get the client not to work so darn hard to talk... stuttering is so often (IMHO) us as pws using too much effort to talk, but as a stutterer, I find it damn hard not to do something... it's much easier for me to have something to do, even if that something mimicks doing less, pushing less, struggling less.. I don't have any idea if that makes sense, so it must be right. Take care, Joe K.