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From: J-J-Judith Eckardt
Date: 16 Oct 2012
Time: 13:02:50 -0500
Remote Name: 97.75.227.19
Hi Chandra, Thank you for responding to my article. YES, culture is most important and needs to be taken into consideration when doing therapy. There is a real difference among cultures and their beliefs about stuttering and a therapist needs to explore that. For example, I have found that the Asian and East Indian Cultures are much more shameful of stuttering than the Hispanic Culture. In parts of Africa, stuttering is much more accepted as just being part of that family. Now, how to handle it ? I usually say the same thing about how "it's nobody's fault, it just happens, stuttering is a very genetic disorder, the more a person tries to hide stutter, the more they will stutter", etc. A therapist needs to be respectful of cultures but yet needs to educate the parents or the stutterer about the development of stuttering. J-J-Judith