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From: Gunars K. Neiders, Psy.D.
Date: 15 Oct 2012
Time: 12:42:12 -0500
Remote Name: 98.247.240.81
Judy, Nice article. It really is the attitudes, the self-talk, that holds the progress of stuttering therapy back. I believe in the Lev Vygotsky's technique of scaffolding as a learning process. Of showing the client over and over again when the clinician does voluntary pseudo-stuttering nothing horrible, terrible, and awful happens. Now if there are graduate students around or enlisting former clients, if this can be shown over and over again, followed by discussion of the self-talk when the client observes and when he or she does voluntary pseudo stuttering, the idea that some disfluencies are just part of life becomes more ingrained.