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From: Gunars
Date: 05 Oct 2006
Time: 00:15:59 -0500
Remote Name: 24.19.13.251
y'all, The more I see and talk to adults with perseverative stuttering syndrome who exhibit severe stuttering the more I am reminded of my psychological clients with unresolved Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome (PTSD). Surely, most of us who had severe stuttering were from time to time traumatized by other people's reaction to our stuttering. For example, my family were almost excluded from coming to United States due to my stuttering. For three days at the age of thirteen I could not sleep or eat, because I could not say my name in front of the U.S. consulate for what seemed to me at least seven breaths. Do any of you know if any research has been done applying techniques of PTSD such as Marsha Linehan's "Dialectic Therapy" to stuttering? Gunars