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Re: Vasu's Question 2 (Repost from above)

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Date: 14 Oct 2004
Time: 12:17:34 -0500
Remote Name: 151.200.90.2

Comments

Hi Darrell, The article talks about the fear during the moment of stuttering and ways of dealing with it, which is necessary. One needs to reduce the fear enough to the point where one is comfortable enough to play with it. Complementary to the "fear during the moment of stuttering", there is the equally important "situational fear" which my previous post really referred to. The fear of introducing yourself in a roomful of strangers, the fear of asking someone on the street the time, the fear of telephones, the fear of public speaking, fear of telling a joke to a bunch of friends etc. These fears need to be confronted and this is the other necessary component of therapy I am referring to. You mention that fluency techniques are intended to be the replacement behavior. I don't have a big problem with that. But I also think that playing with the stutter and pulling out of it can be good replacement behavior training as well. There is no sure-fire technique to use that will free the block so each stutterer will find his/her own way out of the block by experimentation. Here the rationale is to accept the stuttering while trying to modify it. This rationale stands in stark contrast to a pure-fluency shaping technique where the rationale is to avoid the moment of stuttering. I do understand, however, that your use of fluency shaping is not in its classic form but as a means to an end of more comfortable stuttering.


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