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From: Charlie Healey
Date: 09 Oct 2008
Time: 16:01:01 -0500
Remote Name: 129.93.99.57
Rick: Thanks for your interest and appreciation for my 7 principles. The purpose of my paper this year was to clarify what I said last year about the principles so I didn't feel like I could add to what I had last year. But if I would do this again, there are others that could be added to list. One is the principle that treatment should be based on data-based clinical decisions and evidenced-based practice which includes the clinician's expertise and feedback from the client. Another would be that clinicians need to spend as much time on helping PWS build more positive images of themselves and help them find ways to reduce the negative emotions and anxieties associated with stuttering. Another principle is to help PWS find a way to speak in an easier way but with as much naturalness as possible. In other words, someone who stutters can display disfluencies or use strategies but do so in a way that doesn't call significant attention to the way the person is talking. What a person says is more important than how it is said thus we shouldn't have a goal of helping PWS have 100% fluency. I guess those are some thoughts I have on additional principles that I might include if I were write a paper like this again. Are there others you would include?