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From: Pam (to both Charlie and Bryan)
Date: 10 Oct 2011
Time: 23:23:53 -0500
Remote Name: 67.248.218.106
Thanks for the clarification! As an adult woman who stutters, I indeed did not "latch on" to the "techniques" that grad students tried to teach me when I attempted therapy (for the first time) in 2006. I stayed with it for about 3 years. I always found it difficult to often be the only woman. I wrote a paper and presented some of the podcast episodes I have recorded on "Women Who Stutter: Our Stories" for last year's ISAD conference. Feel free to check out my podcast series (www.stutterrockstar.wordpress.com) devoted exclusively to women who stutter. As of today, I have published 69 (with 2 more pending) conversations with women from all over the world and how we manage our stuttering, as we are a minority within a minority. I believe I am the only one doing something so unique as this. It would be great to see more research on gender differences,and see what may be missing, as to Charlie's observation of his own work with adult women who stutter. Bryan - I tried to change my mindset and be open to fluency shaping tools, but it just did not work. I think I ultimately decided that I wasn't broken and didn't need to be fixed. Back to Charlie - sorry, for jumping around. Maybe you and I could collaborate on a gender-issues paper for next year. You from a clinician perspective, me from a adult woman who stutters some of the time and didn't find fluency shaping at all helpful. Also, thanks for acknowledging that it "looked like" you were doing all the responses. I bet others may have thought that too! :) ~Pam