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From: Gunars Neiders
Date: 10 Oct 2007
Time: 16:43:42 -0500
Remote Name: 67.171.0.68
I fully agree that by not defining what we are dealing with we are at a definite disadvantage of understanding how to deal with it. I also like the use of word syndrome. Dr. Eugene Cooper coined the term Chronic Perseverative Stuttering Syndrome to include the Affect, Behavior, and Cognition (ABC). However, it never seemed to catch on among the researchers or the professors, although they are now often talking about the ABC of stuttering. I have added the concept of Sensory Perception (S) that is also skewed or underdeveloped in adult people who stutter, so in my dissertation I talk about the ABCS of stuttering……..Stephen Hood the editor of Stuttering Foundation of America, Publication 2. “Stuttering words” (third edition, 1997) did include the name. “Chronic perseverative stuttering syndrome” and defined it to be: “Believed by some to result from a long history of multiple, coexisting factors that interact with affective, behavioral and cognitive components of stuttering. For these persons, the hope of a “complete cure” and total remission of stuttering symptoms appears unrealistic. Nevertheless, these persons can learn to control and/or cope with their stuttering and become able to communicate effectively and successfully even in situations of extreme communicative stress:”………..Since at least some people in the community do use the Chronic Perseverative Stuttering Syndrome, I am likely to retain it instead of choosing your terminology of “Stuttered Speech Syndrome”………….I would like to also point out what you probably know, that the B, behaviors, can be subdivided into primary disfluencies, secondary stuttering behaviors such as the struggling behaviors such as eye-blinks, lip pursing, etc, avoidance behaviors, avoidance of risk taking behaviors in vocational and avocational endeavors, etc……………Cognition includes attitudes and self-talk, as rating your whole self, and not just your speech: “I am not as valuable of a person because I cannot talk as fluently as the next guy.” “When I talk better, I am a better person and I can esteem myself more” instead of just noting “I am a person who sometimes stutters and other times does not. I can accept myself unconditionally, even though I dislike my stuttering and am willing to become more flowing and fluent when speaking. …………Could you, please, send me your e-mail to neidersg@comcast.net so when I get my dissertation draft finished, I can send it to you. Maybe there is a way how I can e-mail to Remote Name: 58.84.113.13, but I really don’t know how to.