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From: Lauryn Barrett
Date: 14 Oct 2012
Time: 21:59:40 -0500
Remote Name: 142.105.147.70
Elise, Your post quickly caught my eye as I was scrolling through the articles…I think what I love most about your proposed concept is that it not only aids the client through his/her therapy but it also gives the therapist (as a person who do not stutter) an additional perspective as we try our best to understand stuttering without actually being a PWS; it allows us to connect with our clients in a humanistic way, based upon our general hobbies and interests. A question however which floats around in the back of my mind is whether or not you have or potentially could see, an instance where this association could impose negative effects on the progress of a PWS; a potential example being as follows: Perhaps the golf course is the one place where the PWS feels at ease and where they feel their stutter does not “control” them… Do you think suggesting this approach could build up additional frustration or even a sense of “suffocation” within the PWS that the disorder in this case would be taking over completely every aspect of his/her life?