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From: Charlton Knowles
Date: 02 Oct 2008
Time: 11:23:11 -0500
Remote Name: 24.244.187.34
Hi Walt glad to see your'e doing the conference again this year. You know my history of therapy well and we have discussed the difficulties of transferring technique generated speech to the outside environment. The question is would you (1) agree that most if not all techniques work in producing better speech? (2) the difficulty in reproducing techniques in the non clinical environment is largely due to the fear/anxiety that we stutterers have in doing something different than our engrained pattern of talking/stuttering and the belief that struggling,avoiding etc will get us out of the situation, no matter how maladaptive it is to acheiving better speech. In my case, that's why I think relapse after successful therapy has been my demise. Spontaneous fluency is seductive, it leads the stutterer to think he/she has gotton away with something, when in fact you eventually stutter more as you continue in conversation. From were I sit and my many years of therapy etc, my conclusion is that the only way out of the stuttering cycle is to address the stuttering moment and force myself to use technique generated speech. However,easily said than done What's your thoughts?