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From: Rachel Bolt, SLP Grad Student
Date: 21 Oct 2006
Time: 16:52:22 -0500
Remote Name: 68.187.206.34
In my undergraduate fluency course, we spoke in depth about coping with teasing. As hard as clinicians, parents, teachers, and friends may try to eliminate teasing, it is impossible to to eliminate all of it. I agree with Van Riper's approach (Van Riper, 1973) that acceptance can be the best defense against teasing, as long as the child is mature enough to feel and express acceptance. For example, the child could respond to teasing by saying "I know I'm not talking smoothly, but I'm working on it". How can we as clinicians coach a school-age child to maturely accept and admit his stuttering to bullies?