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From: Pat Gangnon
Date: 14 Oct 2004
Time: 16:38:50 -0500
Remote Name: 38.119.188.39
Hi Andrea. Thank you for your feedback. Intuition is a difficult state of mind to get into...in fact, you have to be tripped into it. Theater Games work well to get people into using intuition. The theater games groups I have had involve individuals who stutter plus several regular education students and there is a great deal of interaction and spontaneity. There is no audience present. Presently, I have a ninth grader who has been a part of a theater games group for two years. His parents have noted positive change in his speech in all speaking situations in the home, at school and using the phone. They feel he has gained confidence and become more self assured.He is going on monitoring at this point and has achieved more fluency using this approach. I am also doing a different group with a fourth grader and a group of 13 fourth graders. His parents have noticed change in all aspects of his speech in spontaneous speaking situations. As I mentioned in the article, I feel there is a need for further study to prove there is a correlation between using theater games and transfer/generalization success in natural speaking situations. I would suspect that people would be skeptical unless I could present scientiifc data to show a correlation. On an additional note, I have used theater games with adult support groups, all of who stutter to some degree, and the response has been favorable. Adults with fluency issues have given me some good feedback and they feel it benefits them in many ways. Pat Gangnon