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From: Vivian Sisskin
Date: 16 Oct 2011
Time: 09:03:54 -0500
Remote Name: 173.66.20.142
Hi Rita! It's a bit of a contradiction for me :-) If the client is blocking and can't get on the sound of the word, then he or she is already stuttering, so pseudostuttering is not really possible. This assumes that pseudostuttering is a choice (voluntary). I prefer to frame "getting on the sound" as "doing the thing you fear the most"... making the noise you don't want to make. This insures that the client desensitizes to the very thing that the block is serving to suppress. I often say, "go ahead and risk... do the thing you don't want to do", and evaluate it as a success. I find that true desensitization occurs best with this reframing.