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From: Ken Logan
Date: 05 Oct 2011
Time: 13:42:16 -0500
Remote Name: 128.227.62.133
As John and Dale said, this is a complex issue. The approaches that John and Dale noted sound like excellent ways to engage teens. I see many college-age people who stutter. Many of these folks did not wish to participate in therapy during high school and are either just engaging in speech therapy for the first time or are doing so after not working at their speech in a therapy context since childhood. They typically will say that although stuttering was not something they enjoyed during high school, they did not perceive it as necessarily being a critical problem to address, either. In college, however, they suddenly seem to care much much more. Sometimes the level of concern perks up in freshman year, but more often it is during the sophomore or junior years. often this is precipitated by their desire to participate more in class discussions, social settings, and (the big one) their desire to perform well in interview situations for jobs or internships. So, in these cases it seems to be a matter of hitting a low point and wanting to do something about it.