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From: Joe Klein
Date: 03 Oct 2007
Time: 15:25:09 -0500
Remote Name: 66.195.8.6
Hi Lindsey. Thank you for your question. It's a difficult question to answer, because often it is not whether or not a technique 'works' or not, but is a question of WHEN does the technique work. Fluency shaping kinds of therapy did not work for me at first. I had no carryover, and felt that it was useless. Then, techniques like freezing, cancellations, pull-outs, voluntary stuttering, self-disclosure, really worked well for me. Then, once I got over many of my HUGE attitudinal/emotional problems with stuttering, those fluency shaping techniques started to become more useful to me, now that I was actually relaxed enough to use them outside of the therapy room... so it isn't that one technique works and one does not, it's what does this client need right now, what will work for him right now.. can I meet my client where he is, rather than where I am, or where I want him to be... I hope that makes sense. Take care, Joe.