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From: J Scott Yaruss
Date: 02 Oct 2008
Time: 18:39:21 -0500
Remote Name: 209.255.52.221
Hi Brandi - Thanks for the kind words. Yes, several people have suggested analogies for the different types of disfluencies. Ed Conture has a number in his book, and many of the examples that I use in my daily treatment can be traced to him. Let's see...for repetitions, I talk about going over railroad tracks in the car (sort of bumpy)... for prolongations I talk about going over a bridge that stretches out the sound (I live in Pittsburgh where we have many, many bridges). For a block, hitting a brick wall works pretty well. For the young ones, one that I like in particular (and I think I came up with this one myself ;-) is a bumpy vs. smooth dinosaur. I have a wooden model of a stegosaurus (bumpy) and an apatosaurus (smooth) that the kids like to play with. There are lots of other analogies that can be used too -- dribbling a ball vs. rolling a ball, mountains vs. rivers (this is played out in our logo for the Stuttering Center ... www.StutteringCenter.org). For an older child, I once did skiing over moguls as opposed to getting "in the groove." I actually find that the kids are the most creative ones at coming up with analogies...as they're older. With the really little ones you'll have to help them... Hope this helps, S