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From: Chris
Date: 13 Oct 2009
Time: 21:52:03 -0500
Remote Name: 76.183.230.202
Hi, Jeanne, Good points that you're asking. I did pursue much speech therapy in my twenties but only to chase fluency and "make this thing go away -- please!" I believe that the issues under the water that make up the iceberg may be very well associated with stuttering, however, I think that psychotherapy probably is the more appropriate professional resource for a PWS to seek understanding and tools of how stuttering has impacted their emotional life and what strategies can be learned to deal with those issues -- not from the SLP arena. I think the SLP is a wonderful trained professional resource to deal with the extrinsic issues of stuttering but that others are more trained and experienced in dealing with the intrinsic. But that said, I think the SLP could work in concert with a therapist in helping a patient accept the fact that he or she should and could get wonderful benefit and encouragement in an optimum way from speech therapy to more sincerely be a partner in the process than someone like I was who simply wanted a quick fix to treat the symptom and not find a way to "stutter as well as I could." Great comments and insight, Jeanne. Thanks very much for your contribution and participation. You touched on a very important aspect of this crazy stuff! Thanks, Chris