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From: Tim Mackesey
Date: 10/2/03
Time: 8:10:43 PM
Remote Name: 68.211.53.6
Yes, it is very interesting to watch all people access internal information via eye patterns. They look up for images, down for feelings (kinesthetic), and left/right for auditory information. PWS or not, we all do it.
Ask a friend about a recent vacation and see if they describe it visually, auditorally, or kinesthetically. THen, build rapport by "going into their world" and pacing their experience.
Holding eye contact all the time is not a panacea as far as I am concerned. Further, it is IMPOSSIBLE for the reasons above and those listed in the article.
Eye contact aversion is being presented as a significant cognitive-affective symptom. (All SLPs would be out of work if we could just force people to hold eye contact and that would cure it.) By itself it is not a panacea by any means.
As you read the article carefully you will see the material regarding hard-wired eye patterns for accessing images, auditory, and kinesthetic information that ALL human beings do unconsciously.
The key is right at the moment of stuttering. This is where the mind/body connection occurs. A person averting due to self-consciousness has work to do.
What if someone experiencing a massive block did maintain eye contact? I use to. What if they refuse to?
Cheers, Tim