How Beliefs and Self-Image Can Influence Stuttering

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Confidence and early awareness of stuttering

From: Lindsay Hughes
Date: 21 Oct 2009
Time: 23:13:07 -0500
Remote Name: 64.85.180.18

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My name is Lindsay Hughes and I'm a graduate student at Western Carolina University. I enjoyed your article and share in your viewpoint. I agree that people’s actions are often a reflection on what they think of themselves. Confidence plays a huge role in communication and personal presentation. A certain amount of confidence and self control would be required to disregard a negative “inner voice” for someone who stutters. However, how would your theories apply to young children who tend to be confident and unaware of their disfluencies? Should speech language pathologists bring awareness to children who suffer from disfluency or does this risk forever damaging their confidence? Can early awareness build that “inner voice” that says “I stutter” or is early awareness necessary in order to treat the child?


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