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From: Sheryl Gottwald
Date: 17 Oct 2011
Time: 08:21:50 -0500
Remote Name: 132.177.146.145
Thanks for your comments, Alexandra! In response to your first question, I would be more apt to ask students who stutter how successful they felt rather than to ask their peers. I would also reinforce and praise their own evaluations of their fluency. If a student is feeling like people are reacting negatively to his/her speech because of stuttering, I would talk with that student about how they know this, what did they see when they stuttered, what happened when they stuttered. Often it is just a feeing but sometimes students will then talk about peers laughing or walking away. This, then, is a great opportunity to begin to talk about how to educate others so that they react in a more neutral way to stuttering. I use the scales in different ways with different cients. If they are working on a particular skill and have home practice activities related to that skill, then the scales are a good way to measure their completion and satisfaction with the home practice activities. If the scales are general indices of comfort and confidence I might only use them every 3 weeks or so.