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From: Klaas Bakker, Missouri State University
Date: 05 Oct 2011
Time: 14:20:14 -0500
Remote Name: 146.7.150.230
I am personally fascinated by this problem as well. If there is nearly no overt stuttering, then stuttering behavior (in an overt sense) is obviously not the problem, but it seems that we have a new problem now: strong concerns and incredible internal efforts to avoid what may (but we don't know for sure!) lead to stuttering. It seems to me the straighforward choice for treatment would be to work on reducing the concerns. I do believe that allowing the stuttering to come out could be one way to deal with with concerns, but there may be other ways that are simply directly aimed at finding out how to overcome concerns and fears.