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From: Debbie Ostman, Fond du Lac, WI
Date: 20 Oct 2011
Time: 06:44:37 -0500
Remote Name: 97.95.48.175
I really was happy to read your paper. As an slp, you mainly learn about fluency shaping and stuttering modification techniques, and the combined approach to work with people who exhibit chronic stuttering. This approach is one you often hear about, but you never really get a handle on it. Thank you for explaining it based on Mr. Johnston's paper. Both of your responses to comments and questions have added so much more to my understanding of stuttering and being able to talk about it better with others. I, too, never thought about "artifacts of therapy," but I do know I've seen them before. Your explanation, Peter, about why you wouldn't work on breathing or foot tapping was excellent. I have been told and agree that those behaviors would fade away on their own if you help a person cope with the moment of stuttering in a more effective way, e.g., light contacts, to use your example. Your article raises the question, which you so eloquently imply or maybe even stated (I don't recall exactly), of whether the many various treatments for stuttering have something uniquely in common that facilitates change to make stuttering less detrimental/powerful (any word that fits) to the individual. What is it about a therapy that makes it work for some but not for all? Finding that common link may prove to be very helpful. Thank you again for the work you both did in explaining costal breathing.