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From: Peter Reitzes
Date: 02 Oct 2011
Time: 11:28:40 -0500
Remote Name: 66.57.22.122
Aonghus, thanks again for taking the time to share your thoughts. As always, you bring up excellent points. I think we disagree on the importance of using a book to understand costal breathing, but I respect and appreciate your views on the matter. I appreciate your clarification on the topic of holistically viewing treatment. Perhaps I would say something similar in regards to stuttering modification treatment. Although within the last few years I am less enamored with strict stuttering modification and more enamored with the ideas behind it. Numerous clients and people who stutter I know have gained a lot from pull-outs and cancellations, but they describe the tools in often different ways. This is one of the reasons that therapists responding to clients (instead of clients responding to therapists) is so important. It seems to me that if we are ever going to be better understand treatment and better understand “crashing” after intensive treatments, we are really going to have to better understand the specific components involved. In my eyes, costal breathing is just one of numerous physical speaking strategies that really need to be pulled apart and better understood. One idea we mention in the paper is that drawing attention to what we are doing during speech and stuttering using a tool may be more important than the specific tool itself. Thanks again for writing.