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From: Barbara Amster
Date: 05 Oct 2005
Time: 10:36:13 -0500
Remote Name: 139.84.48.251
Dear Rachel I understand your concern. I do have graduate students in my fluency and stuttering course pseudo-stutter in public situations and we discuss the activity both before and afterwards. The students do it in pairs so that each student has the opportunity to pseudo-stutter and to observe the experience. I think that the way the activity is approached is important and the students realize that we are not mocking people who stutter, rather it helps a student to understand what someone who stutters confronts on a daily basis and provides the students empathy for the day-to-day experience of stuttering. Many of these students have told me the activity is very difficult to do but the result is invaluable in understanding what their clients’ experience. I hope that you will give it a try. Sincerely, Barbara Amster