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From: Nancy Tozier
Date: 10/8/02
Time: 4:51:53 PM
Remote Name: 24.52.128.113
Hi Sarah,
Thanks for your kind words. For the questions directed at me, the exact length of time I'm uncertain of. I remember asking a fellow mom, who had a daughter who had finished speech therapy, to write about her experiences for my Yahoo based support group, " Stuttering Support". She replied, " Now that we're done, I just can't bring myself to go back over those feelings again. I knew exactly how she felt. After I kept my weekly records to share with Barry I threw them away, resisting the urge to step on them, shred them and set them on fire. We had made it I wasn't looking back. So I could estimate. Another factor is I'm so sensitive to ANY disfluency, that I'm not sure when normal speech exactly started, having no training in these things. We all have a normal amount of dis-fluencies, being over sensitive to these things didn't make me a good judge. Big guess here. Remembering also (what a wimp I am) that because it was long distance, and not having the visual training of a clinic too. I'd guess a year. His Kindergarten teacher said she only heard it in the beginning of the year much. And his first grade teacher claimed only the first week or two. Having said that, I'd say the severity dropped quite quickly.6-8 weeks made a big difference. One other factor was that Lidcombe includes, after awhile, asking the child to try the stuttered word again. This is an important part that I really didn't do much of. My husband was told to stop stuttering each time he did, as was suggested in the 60's. He felt it made him much worse. I was afraid to do them even if they were done in a positive way. I know this would have shortened the process.
As for how my son feels about the process? He's a really good talker, joke teller, story teller, nice voiced young man, what problem? He doesn't remember he had a problem. Big ego.
Nancy