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From: Steve Hood
Date: 10/2/03
Time: 10:41:04 AM
Remote Name: 199.33.133.50
Thanks, Bob !!
Unlike you, I was never one of Dean's students. However, when I was a grad student at Wisconsin, Dean visited Madison a few times, and gave a number of workshops over in Milwaukee. A group of us would always drive over to Milwaukee to attend. I was intrigued by his concept of "talking about talking," even though from the printed page I found it very difficult to understand.
During the summer of 1972 I was able to spend the summer in Iowa City, and was part of the Summer Residential Program. Originally, the idea was for me to do a lot of research, and spend a limited amount of time in the clinic. As it turned out, one of the clinic supervisors was not able to work that summer, so I was pressed into service as a clinical supervisor in the stuttering clinic. Dean's wife Bette had undergone some surgery, and so I covered for him and did some lecturing in his stuttering class.
WOW !! What a way to learn.... To observe a master clinician..... To better understand the talking process.... To have him observe me in therapy and then offer a critique.
For about as long as I can remember, I have thought a realistic goal for the person whose stuttering is chronic and severe is to "be able to talk any time, any place, to any body, and to be able to do so with little more than a normal amount of negative emotion." After reading your paper, I think I just discovered that I probably learned about this outcome from Dean.
Thanks for sharring your memories with others.
Steve Hood