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From: Pam
Date: 06 Oct 2009
Time: 18:12:28 -0500
Remote Name: 24.195.248.126
I am glad you got started on this, as you say! I have only been involved in therapy for a little over three years,ans most of that years has been working on acceptance. Fortunately, I am not paying full-services fees for this - I am lucky enough to be close to an excellent college program and see the grad students clinicians. I laugh now about it, but I think there was a time when the people who assigned the clinicians and clients probably cringed, because I was so anti-target use. I challenge, ask questions, think out loud and reflect far more than any actual fluency work. To me,thats more impoertant right now, and has been. And that needs to be genuinely understood! I don't really expect to be fully fluent, but I want to understasnd as much as I can about my stuttering and adopt more tolerance for my rough patches. Right now, I am blocking more than ever, and trying to figure it out. The college folks work with me, and repect that Iam indeed the expert on my stuttering. I have a paper on this conference, detailing what I have learned works for me in therapy. Please read it and see what you think. (http://www.mnsu.edu/comdis/isad12/papers/mertz122.html I would love to meet you. Are you coming to St Rose in Albany, NY for next year's weekend workshop? I think all SLPs need to really understand how much there is really involved in stuttering, expecially the covert experience. That broader and deeper understanding would result in much more meaningful outcomes for all people who stutter, and those that work and care about us.