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From: Ken Logan
Date: 17 Oct 2011
Time: 20:46:27 -0500
Remote Name: 74.179.121.152
Just wanted to add a little to the thoughtful comments that Gary and Scott offered....Interview-related phone calls are difficult for lots of people, and I've always thought that it is a particularly tall order to suddenly go from having little or no fluency management success on phone calls to having excellent fluency management. It just doesn't happen that way very often, even after one has completed intensive therapy and all the techniques, etc., that go along with it. My suggestion - and this is nothing particularly novel :-) - is to set relatively small goals for yourself. If you're like most people, you want to do really really well in each of those situations (which is understandable, but perhaps not too realistic at this point). So, rather than trying to "hit the home run" (which in this case may be something like, "I'll talk so fluently that the interviewer won't know that I stutter." go for a more specific and attainable goal. The latter might be something speech related (like using a stuttering management technique for some small segment of the phone call) or it might be something related to the attitudes or feelings that accompany stuttering during these phone calls). Change takes time, and with regard to changes in stuttering, time can sometimes seem to pass to very slowly, or at least not a pace we'd like it to. But the important thing to remember is that change does happen - and the surest way for it to happen is to keep on plugging away. Good luck!