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From: J-J-Judith Eckardt
Date: 14 Oct 2012
Time: 13:39:51 -0500
Remote Name: 97.75.227.19
Hi Kristin, Thank you for your reply. Yes, for many that practicing became overbearing and if not done, produced a tremendous amount of guilt. One of the saddest cases I ever delt with was a young man getting reading to graduate from college. He had been to an intensive fluency shaping program 3 times--first in high school, then before college, and later during college. Now as he was getting ready to graduate from college, he came to me asking my opinion if he should attend for the 4th time. He was from a family that could afford to pay the fees and he felt he could not return home and stutter after graduation. Plus he had stuttering within his family so "it was not his fault that he stuttered". Of course, I told him what I would do and tried to encourage him to attend the SSMP in WA to work on fears and avoidances and then use his controls. Or if he wanted, I would be willing to work with him in AZ. Sadly, I lost him because he said "working on fears and avoidances" was too hard for him and he wanted fluency now. The last thing he told me was that he was going to stay an extra year in college and practice 6 hours a day to regain his fluency that he had lost 3 times after attending an intensive fluency shaping program. To this day I think about him and feel sad for him. J-J-Judith