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From: Ken St. Louis
Date: 18 Oct 2010
Time: 11:20:17 -0500
Remote Name: 157.182.15.31
Erin, I have worked with at least two stuttering adults who self-medicated (with alcohol) to the point that they had serious alcohol abuse problems. Both had been in trouble with the authorities for DUI, etc. That is not what you asked, and I have not worked with adults on anti-anxiety drugs that I can recall (or knew about). I did work with an adult, a college football player, who could not stand to hear stuttering, even on tape. (He had pushed me up against the wall and almost hit me when I was modeling different ways of stuttering.) Our first few weeks of therapy involved turning on a tape recorder of stuttered speech, first someone else and later the client speaking, with the instruction to listen as long as he could tolerate it before turning it off. We kept track of the "tolerance time" and gradually increased it. Ken