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From: Cassaundra Corbett Miller, graduate student at West Virginia University
Date: 21 Oct 2004
Time: 15:33:03 -0500
Remote Name: 157.182.245.66
Hello, I am currently a speech pathology graduate student at West Virginia University and I have a question about your article. You mentioned that teens respond much better to other teens than to adults in therapy. I was wondering if a non-stuttering teen could be used in a therapy setting with a teen who stutters? Many times when working with clients it is not possible to have multiple teens who stutter in the same session, so would working with a non-stuttering teen also be effective in increasing fluency? I was thinking that having friend or classmate in therapy with the teen would help desensitize stuttering for the person who stutters. The non-stuttering teen would also benefit from the sessions because he or she would learn more about stuttering and see first hand how hard his or her peer works to be fluent. Do you think this would be the case?