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From: Shari an SLP grad student
Date: 20 Oct 2008
Time: 12:40:44 -0500
Remote Name: 68.161.131.153
As an SLP grad student, throughout my classes and from reading various papers the principles of stuttering therapy which you have written about are of course ideal for conducting a therapy session when working with a client who stutters. However, I have recently come across a specific and perhaps unusual situation. What should be done in the case of a young adult who reports to have accepted the fact that they speak with a stutter and states that they want to learn how to speak fluently but when filling out a questionnaire about behaviors in relations to their stutter, they filled out many “No’s” and reported that they often withdraw from certain situations such as speaking up in class and reading out loud. Does this mean that they haven’t truly accepted it, and how would the initial therapy sessions be conducted? Would you focus on talking about the behaviors and emotions or jump into teaching the client techniques?