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From: Katie Ashman
Date: 10 Oct 2008
Time: 10:37:38 -0500
Remote Name: 74.64.98.202
I'm a SLP graduate student and as part of my Fluency Disorders class, we were assigned to go check out this ISAD conference and look through articles of interest. Your paper on CBT grabbed my attention because as I have been learning about stuttering, I always think about how one's personal feelings toward their stuttering may not only affect his or her fluency, but also quality of life. I feel that first and foremost, PWS should strive to have a positive outlook and non- perfectionist perspective about their speech, even before trying to get more fluent. I feel that this applies to most things in life, even for non-stutterers-- a positive perspective makes experiences in life easier. I was wondering if there was an approach to maintain the effects of CBT long-term. More specifically, is it possible that someone who had gone through CBT can later experience something that he finds to be particularly embarrassing or painful and will regress to his original, perfectionist thinking? Is there a strategy to bounce back from a regression?