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Re: SCHOOL APPROACH

From: Helen
Date: 15 Oct 2007
Time: 20:31:57 -0500
Remote Name: 209.6.154.214

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Hi Joseph, When I think of dealing with older students who stutter, it's their attitudes that drive their determination to work hard. If you can group your teens together and form a "support" group, they will be able to express their emotions, learn fluency techniques and give feedback to each other.Some tools they can practice within the group and then on the outside are :1) easy onset 2)stretching out vowels 3) cancellation, stopping the stutter and restarting the stuttered word 4)riding out the bump or stuttered word and continuing on. It's important that they practice doing a hard stutter and an easy one, they could practice with a partner in the group. Phone practice is a valuable exercise. Start by phoning less threatening people such as a little neice or nephew, next call a stranger in a store or business and then call someone who is more of an authority figure. Remember you can get a lot of short publications (books and pamphlets) from the Stutering Foundation. Also the National Stutering Foundation can be a resource and Friends (Outreach) for penpals and newsletters including letters from/by teens. I hope these ideas help to get you started...Helen


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