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From: Russ Hicks
Date: 03 Oct 2005
Time: 06:44:01 -0500
Remote Name: 24.1.63.182
Hi Alan, Yes indeed it took me two full years (since 2003) to expand on the iceberg concept and develop that matrix based on the DENSITY of each person's iceberg. I was really amazed when the categories of stutterers jumped off the paper at me and validated the true existence of covert stutterers as a unique class of people who stutter. Did you do that extra credit problem at the end of the paper? I almost had you in mind when I added that at the last minute. <grin> And yes, the position of each person on the paper suggests a different balance of strategies, fluency work and psychological support, for each person. The fact that the force arrow is a DIAGONAL line means that both axes need to be addressed simultaneously. Addressing only one axis simply doesn't work. We've both tried that! Also a super-trivia note, the ship in the iceberg picture is NOT the Titanic. Can you tell me why not? Being smarter than the average bear, being from the UK, and being a former detective surely you can pick up at least two clues. Let me hear back from you...! Russ