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From: Teela Faircloth
Date: 11 Oct 2010
Time: 18:23:05 -0500
Remote Name: 68.226.129.129
Hello Mr.Reitzes, my name is Teela Faircloth and I am a gradstudent at the Unversity of Louisiana at Lafayette. When reading yout article, "The Fluency Challenge" I found that it gives an interesting approach to therapy that can help build the clinican-client relationship . I believe that the way one defines fluency can help to individualized therapy goals and better treatment outcomes. It is important to know that one’s opinion on what fluent speech is can differ significantly from someone else’s own perspective of their fluent speech. For example take a client who stutter’s severely, he or she may want to speak “fluent,” but to them that would be only reducing blocks and prolongations in their speech. However, another client who stutters severely wants to speak “fluent” also but to that person that to stop stuttering completely. This can be helpful with considering and developing therapy goals for each specific person's needs and wants. I enjoyed reading your article and pose a quick question. Has there been any evidence that the word “fluency” carries a negative stigma by clients? I do know that the word “stutterer” has been changed to “ a person who stutters” due to this reason. Thank you.