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From: Tim Mackesey
Date: 16 Oct 2006
Time: 19:01:47 -0500
Remote Name: 72.145.253.179
These are two important questions that are very different. What do you do DURING a stutter and what do you do AFTER a stutter. It depends on age, severity, situation, the rapport and trust you have, the advice or help you are qualified to offer, etc. There is a way to develop a rapport and trust that allows you to intervene right during a stutter. The goal would be to help the pws learn to self-correct. The Stuttering Foundation has a video of Dean Williams in action. Get it and watch him help a child discover what he is doing during the stutter. You will see a master at rapport who earns permission to be so direct. In the day of technology aids there is NO SUBSTITUTE for clinical mastery. Order the tapes today. Cheers, Tim