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From: Carla Bernier
Date: 16 Oct 2011
Time: 19:11:16 -0500
Remote Name: 71.233.233.138
I think that sharing a personal challenge, or a challenge that someone else might have had is a really good way to "relate" to your clients. Although our challenges may not all be as painful, or seem as painful to the PWS, we can at least attempt to parallel situations and learn how others have overcome their challenges. I have used the inspirational messages from "Simple Truths" with clients. They are short little videos that can be very motivational. I have also used materials that I have learned about from post on Yahoo NSACHAP groups. Also, there are some good materials on You Tube that can trigger empathy without being enabling or pitying PWS, but just to show how others get through difficult situations. No, we clinicians cannot know how painful it is, even if we go out and stutter deliberately, and find ourselves dripping with sweat because of the humiliation. We don't live it, and we can't know it, but we can offer hope to the PWS that they can achieve what they set out to do, what ever their choice is. Be it the freedom to stutter, or the freedom to be fluent, or the freedom to work on our challenges while accepting ourselves for who we are. Great article...Thank you. I plan to use this in our support group meetings.