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Re: How do you handle the "C" word?

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Date: 13 Oct 2011
Time: 07:44:10 -0500
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Vince, I do have this discussion with my adult and teen clients and also with the parents of older children who stutter. (for the parents of young children, I talk about the nature of spontaneous recovery). I don't present it as a "fact of therapy', but part of the process of therapy as they grow in understanding of the difference between "stuttering" and struggling". In the early stages of therapy, my clients tend to view fluency (and being cured) as a success because the alternative is struggle. As they begin to see that disfluency can be comfortable and it does not have to interfere with communication or thinking, the value of "cure" diminishes.


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