Growing Up with Stuttering in Croatia

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Re: Types of therapy

From: Suzana
Date: 12 Oct 2011
Time: 18:35:27 -0500
Remote Name: 78.1.149.86

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Hi! For a child and adolescent who stutters, I'd strongly recommend work with parents. They need to be educated about stuttering in general and then advised about their child and how they can best help him. Fluency shaping had suited me best, but based on my experience, you are not "cured" if you cannot deal with your possible stuttering events by modifying them. When I was for the first time exposed to voluntary stuttering, as quite experienced SLT, I found it frightening. When doing my first voluntary blocks at one workshop, I found myself in a state of panic, I had a feeling I was really stuck in that block and like I'd never be able to get out of it. However, fluency shaping and then stuttering modification, only after get to know your speech and master your fluency, not before. How about you? What worked for you?


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