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From: Ken Logan
Date: 22 Oct 2010
Time: 10:57:56 -0500
Remote Name: 128.227.83.46
I'm glad you found the article useful Colleen. In your post, you wrote, "It is truly amazing how much reading a story about a character that stutters and how they get through it can make a person who stutters feel better about themselves." I just wanted to make it clear that you shouldn't expect a child who stutters to make large gains in self-concept, communication attitudes, etc., after hearing or reading a few of these books. As we said in the article, I think these books are best viewed as therapy resources; that is, materials that one can use when addressing certain treatment goals. There are many other resources that clinicians can (and probably WILL) turn to when addressing things like attitudes, feelings, and emotions. In most cases, changes in these domains occur gradually. As for the "best book," I think that is really hard to answer. The books we've listed all have positive things about them. Because the reading levels, depth of plot, story genre, etc., are so variable, it is not easy to compare them. Books that are written for younger children, predictably, discuss stuttering in much less depth than those written for older children. Because of that, there are probably fewer treatment goals that the "younger books" could be readily incorporated into.