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From: Melanie- SLP Grad Student
Date: 19 Oct 2008
Time: 01:14:28 -0500
Remote Name: 143.236.35.203
This was a wonderfully informative article! I really appreciated the broad range of considerations because as a first year graduate student, it is easy to overlook things. Throughout the articles in this conference, I keep reading about clients wanting to sound 'natural' and being dissatisfied with their fluent speech because they feel that it does not sound like them. As you mentioned, a newly fluent voice sounds different to clients and they can be inclined to think it sounds odd, so how do you determine what is 'natural' for different clients and what's the best way to convince doubting clients that they do sound natural? Have you ever noticed that anxiety plays a role in the development or sustainment of natural sounding speech? In essence, have you encountered clients who maintain fluency when anxiety is present, but lose their ability to sound natural in those moments?