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From: Mario from Belgium
Date: 08 Oct 2007
Time: 22:37:29 -0500
Remote Name: 78.20.39.184
Hi HK I'm a pws and have taken many therapies and met many pws. One of the main reason for me in not using voluntary stuttering was fear in how people would react to that kind of speech. For me it sounded a bit unnaturally, but I knew in therapy sessions it helped me. It helped when my therapist went outside with me and did it herself, so I could see how people reacted to it. And then bit by bit, first the easiest step, using it by a good friend who knows bout my stuttering, i extended my comfort zone (like Alan Badmington use this term very great), and used it at work, and even asked my collegues how they looked at my new "kind" of speech. And they all said I was doing great, and they understood me more then they did when i stuttered very badly (that was 1992, i guess). Good luck HK, and I hope you get some more suggestions and hope my story may be usefull for your client.