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From: Timothy Koch
Date: 13 Oct 2011
Time: 04:22:01 -0500
Remote Name: 209.98.254.13
Thanks, Jill! For cognitive thoughts, I think simply educating me about stuttering and those who have it (these very conferences are great for that) helped immensely. I was very much in the dark about stuttering until I met Katie; for all I knew I was the most severe case the world had ever seen, when really I was only moderate. We also looked at video clips of other stutterers, some of whom had conquered their stuttering. It helped me to see stuttering from an observer's perspective and realize that, even if you stutter, it doesn't have to be a flow-breaking conversation stopper. As for emotional, I think it was mostly just slowing easing myself into progressively more difficult situations until I was comfortable with each one, and then moving onto the next - a process I'm still currently in the fledgling stages of.