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From: Retz
Date: 22 Oct 2004
Time: 13:27:06 -0500
Remote Name: 206.40.122.56
Cassaundra....Thanks for reading the article and your comments. I think it is great that you attend a support group for PWS. It is an excellent opportunity for you to develop your base of knowledge regarding stuttering and how to treat it. I do agree that "Therapuetic Listening" would be effective if used with all communicative disorders...In treating the disorder of stuttering--specially with CWS/TWS and their parents--it is an ABSOLUTE NECESSITY. What the child has to say is infinitely more important than how it is said. CWS and TWS all possess natural speech. Goals, to me, should focus on geting the CWS/TWS to talk more....the release of the natural speech they already posess...even if they stutter. It has been my experience, both professionally and personally, that any therapy whose goal is to stop or control stuttering in a CWS/TWS runs a risk of the ultimate stuttering behavior developing. Silence is a terrible choice for a CWS/TWS to make. And yet they will when the focus is on how they say things. It is easy to stop stuttering....just don't talk! "Therapuetic Listening" based therapy will not allow for that to occur...and if you are treating stuttering, the "stutter' is not the worst part of it....combating the outcome of Choosen silence is. Keep at your studies...you will be a valuable addition to the profession!