[ Contents | Search | Post | Reply | Next | Previous | Up ]
From: Joe K.
Date: 23 Oct 2008
Time: 07:33:30 -0500
Remote Name: 74.70.44.201
Hi Alaina, this absolutely does happen. Parents are very worried and very scared, as Joe D. wrote about so well in our article. And they are scared about the stuttering. So, having a clinician who is stuttering can be scary if they are viewing stuttering as the problem. One thing that I say is that stuttering is associated with too much mental and physical effort during the moment of speech. If the kids (or adults!) can be more "okay" with the stuttering, they are going to relax, and that will make it easier for them to change their stuttering. So I can quickly make this a positive rather than a negative.... if a child hates his stuttering and is all tense about it, he's not going to be able to change the way that he talks. Take care, Joe K.