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From: Walt Manning
Date: 14 Oct 2008
Time: 15:36:06 -0500
Remote Name: 141.225.97.59
Thanks Katy for your comments. You question is a tough one for choosing one skill is difficult, maybe impossible for I suppose it depends on the person you are assisting and even the timing of what and when you are trying to accomplish something in treatment. I’ll cheat a little by choosing both a personality characteristic and a skill. If I had to pick a personality characteristic it would be curiosity, especially concerning the person’s story about themselves and how they have coped with their stuttering up to the point when I met them. If I had to choose a skill it would be my willingness to do what I ask my clients to do. I discussed both of these in an article in 2004, “How can you understand? You don’t stutter!” Contemporary Issues in Communicative Disorders and Sciences, 31, 58-68. But, as with most reasonably complex activities, we have to work at developing many skills and techniques and to know when (or when not) to use them.