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From: NMU Sarah W.
Date: 21 Oct 2009
Time: 16:24:23 -0500
Remote Name: 24.177.153.156
This article was very interesting and informative about how people have different feeling about their stuttering. While reading this article I immediately thought about Charles Van Riper's and Wendell Johnson's fluent stuttering modification approach, MIDVAS. MIDVAS stands for Motivation, Identification, Desensitization, Variation, Approximation, and Stabilization. Within this approach, a client may start stuttering more, which will test a client’s motivation and fears in different ways. If the client can work through their difficulties, he will do very well. In this article, it talked about difficulties and how people deal with them. I believe the examples given demonstrated the differences great. If a person who stutters within this article that is in the "helpless" category I could imagine they would struggle a lot more in sessions with a clinician especially if their stuttering increases before decreasing.