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From: Michael Retzinger
Date: 21 Oct 2009
Time: 07:27:58 -0500
Remote Name: 76.229.233.81
RM - You ask a brilliant question for such a young person! I am not an expert on this panel, but I am a person who stutters. My therapies when I was your age focused on having me slow my speech down to try to speak without stuttering, and when that didn't work, the speech therapy focused on trying to get me to focus on changing or modifying the way I stuttered; that didn't work either. I chose to grow silent. Finally I met a speech therapist who focused on helping me figure out how to talk, rather than focusing how to stop or control my stuttering! Those are two very different goals and way different therapies!...at least they were for me. That is how my journey to effective deal with stuttering worked out for me. I am happy with the results!