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From: Greg S
Date: 08 Oct 2007
Time: 11:16:32 -0500
Remote Name: 130.74.194.77
Hi Virginia. This is a great question that’s pretty difficult to answer, because (for better or worse) much of stuttering treatment is idiosyncratic from client to client. It has been my experience that there has never been any “successful” (in my eyes) adult stuttering treatment until there’s been a certain amount of personal education, acceptance and advocacy relative to stuttering. So if I client has a negative or helpless attitude relative to certain phonemes, this would be something worth addressing. However, we can’t change our clients minds; they will continue to believe what they want to believe. At best, we can walk beside them in their therapeutic journey. Different PWS will have different sounds in which they struggle; part of successful stuttering therapy is empowering the client with tools that let them regain control of those sounds. Sounds such as /k/ may be best approached by using a bounce. And use the appropriate vowel sound following the bounced /k/, rather than a central (schwa) vowel. How many times does one bounce? However long it takes! Until the /k/ is produced in a 100% gentle (i.e., secondary free) and 100% controlled fashion. Other approaches, such as a gentle onset, may also work; the bounce is merely my personal preference.