[ Contents | Search | Reply | Next | Previous | Up ]
From: Jerry Carlson
Date: 13 Oct 2006
Time: 13:16:46 -0500
Remote Name: 209.240.224.217
So many stutterers who are new (or not so new) to therapy have the goal of "fluent" or as you say "perfect" speech. As one aspect of Tx I indicate to the person that "perfect" speech is found only on the national news or TV shows that have numerous "takes" before airing. I ask the person to listen to and analyze the speech of others to get a realistic few of how others stumble, self-correct, insert, etc. I feel this helps establish more realistic goals for what might be achieved in therapy.