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From: Charlie Healey
Date: 10 Oct 2011
Time: 09:51:04 -0500
Remote Name: 129.93.227.150
HI Pam, Thanks for your post to our paper. Bryan doesn't have access to a computer so I am helping him create a response by sending a reply on his behalf. Although it looks like I am the only one responding, in reality Bryan has provided each response himself. I simply do the typing. I realize now that it does appear I am speaking for him but I'm really not. I am going to use his name as the responder from this point on. Since you asked both of us to comment on how men and women might view therapy differently, I will say that I agree with you that women don't seem to take as much of an assertive approach to using techniques or "toughen up" as do men. The adult female clients I have worked with, do tend to focus on the emotional and social impacts of stuttering. Maybe this is why women don't tend to latch onto the techniques as much as men do. You have made an interesting observation and until you brought it up, I didn't think of the gender differences toward therapy. That might be an interesting paper for this conference next year!