Practical solutions for dealing with bullying in children who stutter

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Re: Stand-up against bullying

From: Scott
Date: 14 Oct 2012
Time: 19:54:41 -0500
Remote Name: 108.17.124.241

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Hi Sarah - Thanks for your post. There are lots of techniques that help people deal with bullying (and stuttering). We ran out of space in this paper to list them all (2000 word limit ;-). There are many more suggestions in the book we're working on, as well is in the paper that Bill and Bob and I published in JFD in 2007. Bob and Bill have a paper in Seminars in 2002 or 2003. And, many other writers have addressed the topic as well: Drs. Marilyn Langevin and Gordon Blood are two of the most prominent. It's important to have a range of ideas at your disposal, for as you noted, different strategies will work for different kids... The most basic idea, however, is to help children become less anxious about their speech. The less their stuttering bothers them, the less able the bullies will be to 'get under their skin.' And, the less bothered they are, the easier it will be for them to use direct, matter-of-fact responses to redirect the bully or defuse the situation. We encourage you to keep reading in this area - it's an important one, and the more we can all work on it together, the better it will be for children who stutter. Thanks again for your post! Scott


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