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From: Dr. Eli Avrahami
Date: 07 Oct 2011
Time: 03:15:04 -0500
Remote Name: 85.250.173.71
In general, as it is a stutterer's community theater, it is expected that actors will stutter during the play. As all the participants had been treated, as children or adults by speech therapist, each one has his own "exercise" that fit best for him/her. So, practically, when one had stuck, during rehearsals or during the performance, it was accepted as "part of the game". People had been facilitated to relax [not panic] and to practice the "exercise". Doing so, it was also a good practice for life in the real world. Facilitating a stutterers' psychodrama group or when I'm working with individuals, one of the goals is to teach people to use "exercises" in the real world at real time, using what the people had learned before [with speech therapists] and what worked for them while exercising at home or at the clinic. In other words, the goal is to gaun control over one`s speech and one`s life.