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From: Allyson Grinfeld-Graduate Student
Date: 19 Oct 2010
Time: 11:38:44 -0500
Remote Name: 66.65.184.23
We are reading Clinical Decision Making in Fluency Disorders by Walter Manning in my class, and I had a question on the name for the therapy technique "fluency shaping". If we do not want to send the message to the child that being fluent is right and stuttering is wrong, how can we bypass this message while using techniques called Fluency Shaping"? It seems that this name suggests that the main goal should be to be fluent, and get rid of their stuttering because stuttering is bad or wrong. Would it be better to label such techniques "Speaking Easier?" Thanks!