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From: Ken St. Louis
Date: 12 Oct 2007
Time: 08:44:05 -0500
Remote Name: 157.182.15.19
Hi Judy, Charlie gave you the 1979 reference. The "controversial issues" that Hugo Gregory (p. 1) identified were: 1. Teaching the stutterer to "stutter more fluently" versus teaching the stutterer to "speak more fluently"; 2. Attitude change: what is it and is it needed? 3. Psychotherapy for stutterers: what is it and is it needed? 4. The appropriate management of stuttering in children; 5. Planning the transfer of changes to the natural environment and dealing with the problem of change; 6. Criteria for assessing the results of stuttering therapy:reports on the results of therapy. We've made some progress on all of them, I think, but some more than others. For what it's worth, I'd say that we don't dichotomize 1 as much as we did; we definitely recognize the value of 2 (Ignoring emotions did not make them go away); not sure about 3, but I doubt that many would believe this anymore; resounding "yes" for 4; almost as a resounding a "yes" for 5; working on 6, as hard as it is. By the way, Trudy, I agree with your view of controversies. Let's get the bottle of wine and see if we can develop some more. Ken