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From: Brian Humphrey
Date: 15 Oct 2007
Time: 01:05:42 -0500
Remote Name: 75.74.131.143
Ross Barrett wrote: Do you incorporate these experiences that you've had re. being a fluency and voice patient with other clients/students that you work with? Does this new perspective of having had fluency (and voice) disorders change how you teach your students; and if so what do you say / teach differently? These are great questions, Ross. I am more up-front about asking my clients what their stuttering feels like to them. Now that I have experienced it, it is easier for me to help them describe and analyze the sensation of stuttering. I include Once Upon a Brain Aneurysm as a reading we discuss neurogenic stuttering in my fluency Disorders class. I do not regularly work with people who have voice problems, but the necessity of doing voice exercises three times a day has taught me a few things about how to suggest regular practice strategies to clients. BH