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From: Irene Bullard
Date: 20 Oct 2011
Time: 16:18:31 -0500
Remote Name: 76.214.57.74
Thanks for your questions and comments. As far as a positive attitude is concerned, I think that I tend to have a positive attitude by nature. Compaired with SD, stuttering definitly has been more difficult and frustrating for me, but remember stuttering has been a life long foe. Stuttering greatly affected my childhood and me as I got older. It affected my self concept, and self worth, and I could go on and on. When I developed SD, of course, it was frustrating and difficult to deal with. But speaking always had been a struggle to one extent or another. I had already faced some of the challenges of being an imperfect speaker. However, I think most adults developing SD would experience it in a somewhat different way. After having excellent speaking skills all of their lives, developing SD could be most devastating to their self esteem, self image, and to their attitude toward communication. In regard to what I would say to a person with negative feelings toward stuttering or voice therapy, there is no one answer. I think it is important to listen to the client and find out what caused these negative feelings, I am thinking of adult PWS. It is important to communicate to the client, in some way, that you truly understand. And it is important that you be able to convey to them that you can help them.