The Use of Drama-Therapy in the Rehabilitation of Stuttering Patients

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Interesting

From: Karri Glinski
Date: 19 Oct 2007
Time: 15:36:30 -0500
Remote Name: 75.93.21.26

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This is very interesting. I go to graduate school at the University of Wisconsin Eau Claire and last year I had the chance to work with a college aged client, majoring in theater, and we tried something like this in our sessions. He said that he was nervous about trying out for plays because of his stutter and was now thinking that maybe he would use his major to be a screenwriter rather than a performer. I really didn't want him to sell himself short so we started to practice reading lines. I would have him fake a stutter and use a technique to get out of it. After only a few sessions of this I could see that it wasn't up his alley. What we changed to was staging debates in our therapy sessions. We would pull a hot topic out of a bag and we would debate. A few of them got a bit heated!! But while we talked I would keep track of number of stuttered moments and the number of techniques used to get out of stuttered moments. This was very effective for him and each session he tried to lessen the number of stuttered moments and increase the number of techniques used. That was a much smaller scale than your therapy approaches but I wanted to give an example of how something like this could be used on a smaller scale. Thanks so much for the article and the new twist on therapy. ~Karri


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