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From: Ken St. Louis
Date: 20 Oct 2005
Time: 13:19:04 -0500
Remote Name: 157.182.143.38
Dear Heidi, Nice post! Thanks for the kind words about the book. Like your instructor (Lisa LaSalle??), I, too, have my students go out and stutter on purpose in real situations. In fact, I have required that in every undergraduate course in stuttering I ever taught. It's a good experience that not only gives an idea of what stuttering might feel like, but gives students some important training in a skill they can use in therapy. Sometimes, you need to demonstrate to a stutterer how to do a voluntary stuttering assignment or demonstrate a different way of stuttering. To date, I have not published much on the qualitative studies, although that is always on my "to do" list. We did publish the proceedings of a paper at the 3rd World Congress of the International Fluency Association in Denmark on the lexical analyses. The reference is: St. Louis, K. O., Taffoni, M. C., Novotny, A. M., Hightower, C. D., Boyd, L. E., Bedford, K R., & Oakes, K. (2001). Qualitative analysis of personal stories of stuttering. In H.-G. Bosshardt, J. S. Yaruss & H. F. M. Peters (Eds.). Fluency disorders: Theory, research, treatment and self-help. Proceedings of the Third World Congress on Fluency Disorders in Nyborg, Denmark. International Fluency Association, 175-180. Good luck in your future studies. Ken