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Re: Do you agree with Prof. Onslow that "Chronic stuttering i...

From: CHARLTON KNOWLES
Date: 15 Oct 2007
Time: 08:43:37 -0500
Remote Name: 24.244.187.34

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Dear Walt,how are you, glad to see that you are participating in the conference.if I may comment on the difficulty of treating stuttering in adults and I can only speak from my vast experience with many different types of therapies, I agree with you that chronic stutters, such as myself I think can improve greatly and become effective communicators, however, i am convinced that can only come about by (1) unconditionally accepting your stuttering as a fact of life, (2) make profound attitudunal changes about how you view yourself vis a vis others, (3)empower yourself that you are a dynamic individual and notwithstanding stuttering you are quite relevent. If one views stuttering as a fear/anxiety disorder, fear/anxiety has to be reduced, which will result in better fluency and better ease to control the moment of stuttering.I am at that point now, after years of therapy which has all helped, but until I literally forgot about trying to control stuttering, and wanting to be fluent, I just allow the expectation of stuttering come about and don't panic and slowly move through the sound/syllable/word and the speech is fine. But this only came about when I stopped trying to be totally controlled.I have also gotton rid of other attitudes that kept me handcuffed with anxiety/fear. I am not "perfectly" fluent or void of stuttering, but I really DO NOT CARE.


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