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From: Gunars K. Neiders, Psy.D.
Date: 16 Oct 2012
Time: 12:46:06 -0500
Remote Name: 98.247.240.81
Myself I underwent 17 different stuttering therapies of various durations. I found very little success until I incorporated modern psychology such as CBT/REBT or more recently ACT and DBT before I gained more time having spontaneous fluency and being able to have managed fluency the rest of the time. My best proposed model is a collaborative one between SLP's and Psychologists. This does not mean that people who stutter a mental cases or psycho's, but that the distress of stuttering has taken its toll. Unfortunately like with cancer patients, who I also see, even the mentioning of psychologists evokes at first a strong automatic negative response from both the clients and their doctors. However, in treatment of cancer it we have managed to advance "Pscho-oncology" (yes a rather unfortunate term) to where in the best cancer treatment centers you are automatically assigned a psychologist from the beginning. But back to the title of the subject. On list servers and facebook discussion group there is a strong sentiment that stuttering therapy just has not worked. How can we demonstrate that at least with the proper team effort a person will be significantly helped both emotionally and fluency wise?