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From: Huang Haiyin
Date: 10/7/02
Time: 9:44:40 AM
Remote Name: 211.144.118.74
John Harrison: Thanks for your comments.
I knew you from your famous paper “DEVELOPING A NEW PARADIGM FOR STUTTERING” and your recovery from chronic stuttering, but I failed to reach your e-mail box. It is marvelous that two former chronic stutterers with different background met in the Internet and found that they share the same views! I should express my gratitude to professor J. kuster, she organized a great online conference which set up bridges between people in different parts of the world.
I agree to your view that “chronic stuttering...not primarily as a speech problem...but as the person’s discomfort in communicating his or her thoughts and feelings to others.” I think that “stutterers never or seldom stutter when talking to themselves” is a very important characteristic of most of the stutterers, from this we can look into the nature of chronic stuttering and find that chronic stutterers have the potential to speak fluently. The prevalent view that “there is just no hope of a permanent improvement for chronic stutterers” is too pessimistic.
I also agree that to confirm the reliability of my supposition by strictly controlled clinical trials is not easy. However, if it is a good strategy, its value can be proved by more successful cases. Like cancer, the spontaneous remission rate of chronic stuttering is very low. If we have a lot of chronic stuttering cases and achieved high remission (recovery like you and I) rate, then its value will be accepted.
Could you please tell me your e-mail address? My e-mail address is haiyin_h@163.net. Keep in touch! Huang Haiyin