Combining Intensive Treatment with Teletherapy

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Re: Stuttering therapy and teletherapy

From: Retz
Date: 05 Oct 2011
Time: 13:43:45 -0500
Remote Name: 76.230.229.4

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Julie - Thank you for reading our paper and posting your questions. Kevin and I have just recently developed our offering of this Three-day Intensive with SKYPE folow-up for teens who stutter and their parents. We are both hopeful - & expecting - to run a number of these Three-Day Intensives with SKYPE teletherapy follow-ups in the next 12 months. What I have found in my individual private practice is that teens who stutter most enjoy not having the expectations or demands of using techniques in order to be viewed as having "success" in therapy; teens who stutter feel - and come to know - that WHAT they say is infinitely more important and valuable than HOW they say it...Both to themselves and their listeners. When teens who stutter recognize they can speak freely in this manner, they tend to talk and share more. I learned long ago that real "listening" does not allow for the listener to evaluate how the message is sent; only what the message is. In addition, I have found parents to be so helpful and active in the therapy process as they learn about ways to assist in the goals of decreasing communication apprehension, both in regards to the fear of stuttering and fear of speaking. It is my observation clinically that as fear of stuttering and fear of talking decrease, great volumes of natural speech - which the teen who stutters already posesses - increase. Our intensive and Skype follow-up is not about stopping or controlling stuttering; it is about freedom from fear of stuttering and talking and involving parents deeply in a successful therapy process. Perhaps Kevin will share his thoughts as well...


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