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Re: changing stuttering patterns

From: Ed Feuer
Date: 07 Oct 2009
Time: 23:08:19 -0500
Remote Name: 66.38.153.249

Comments

Charlton and Charlie, to make these golf analogies with stuttering complete, you'd have the gallery throwing beer bottles at someone trying to make a shot. That might be closer to what's going in the adverse signal-to-noise ratio in our speech system that makes us vulnerable to communicative stress. And don't forget lots of divots and no mulligans. And Joe, you will not doubt recall that I'd have a sports psychologist on the coordinated multidisciplinary treatment team. Tom, anyone who would ignore the stuttering makes the same mistake as PFSP. Our blocks are not simply random spasms but as Van Riper tells us are idiosyncratic, highly conditioned with stimulus and response, with beginnings, middle and ends and the product of years, even decades. To ignore the blocks in treatment has the same long-term result as trying to paper over a volcano. — Ed Feuer, edfeuer@mts.net


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