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From: Katia Rinehart
Date: 10 Oct 2006
Time: 22:47:38 -0500
Remote Name: 71.90.83.65
I really appreciated your suggestions on how to address bullying with a child that stutters. As a first year graduate student, I am learning that counseling and acknowledging feelings are an integral part of intervention. I think this is especially true when working with people who stutter, given the many emotions that come along with the disorder and how those emotions can affect their fluency. Your paper taught me the importance of differentiating between reactive and proactive behaviors. I am sure that parents, and clinicians alike, often believe they are being proactive when, in fact, they are not. Taking the time to reflect from a first, second, and third perceptual positions will encourage the clinician or parent to attend to details such as facial expression and tone of voice that may have a negative impact on an interaction. It made me so sad to read about some of the reactive experiences some children have encountered, especially by teachers! How would you suggest handling a situation like that? As you said, it is important to teach the child to fight their own battles, but where do you intervene? Thanks! Katia