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From: Megan Leonard
Date: 17 Oct 2009
Time: 21:22:26 -0500
Remote Name: 98.179.192.24
I am a graduate student at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. I found your article to be very insightful as to the importance of naturalistic treatment and including the people in the child's environment in the process. I particularly appreciated the section on Talk Time with both parents. I think another benefit of this would be for the parents to slow down their hectic schedules, if only for the five minutes of Talk Time, to sit down and have an unrushed conversation with their child. Having a relaxed home enviroment can not only benefit the person who stutters, but also the entire family. I am curious as if you would directly address other factors that can accompany stuttering, such as postponement and aviodance behaviors, as well as decreasing concominant behaviors during moments of stuttering such as eye blinking, twitching, etc. Do these behaviors usually go away on their own once the child learns to become comfortable with their stuttering?