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From: Dale Williams
Date: 05 Oct 2005
Time: 11:56:51 -0500
Remote Name: 131.91.248.210
I too have students pseudo-stutter in pairs. Later in the semester, they also talk to people using speech patterns characteristic of stuttering modification and fluency shaping. I do this not to torture them (that’s more of a bonus) and not even so much to give them the experience of feeling like a PWS. Rather, I consider it clinical training. That is, if they’re going to ask clients to perform such tasks as open or voluntary stuttering, preparatory sets, and/or shaped speech outside the clinic room, they should be willing to lead the way. I tell them to think of these assignments as the first of many times over the course of their careers that they will pseudo-stutter with new listeners. Dale