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From: James
Date: 15 Oct 2011
Time: 18:28:52 -0500
Remote Name: 156.26.98.73
Hello Professors and Stuttering Experts! I graduated from college in May with a bachelors degree in Pyschology and I am still looking for a job. I sent out hundreds of resumes and emails and still no interviews. I used up all my savings. I had just completed an intensive fluency shaping program a few month ago. Hoping to improve my stuttering when I telephone potential employers, my parents helped me and paid for an intensive stuttering treatment program. I was promised that I would be stutter free by the end of the program. I was so excited! Now I am very depressed, money spent, I worked hard, but still no job. I was stutter free and able to talk in the clinic with my clinician, she was very nice although she didn't stutter. However, I am having a lot of trouble making the transfer to daily life, I practice easy onsets, light contacts, prolong my syllables, and use slow rate, stretching. My speech sounds highly unnatural and people have trouble understanding me on the telephone. I wonder after searching on the Internet: Do Fluency Shaping Techniques work in "Real Life" Situations? Should I advertise to people that I am using my fluency shaping techniques when I go out and talk to people and doing my transfer activities. Some people can be impatient with me when I speak slow and they cut in. I am supposed to make phone calls. I am desperately looking for a job. I am not sure how my employer will like the "way I talk"?? It is very slow and deliberate, and I feel people are impatient. Need your help and advice? Thank you for your help. James