Stuttering Well: The Clinician's Use of Positive Language

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Re: Parent change

From: Judy Butler
Date: 16 Oct 2006
Time: 05:10:24 -0500
Remote Name: 70.22.128.86

Comments

Peter, Maybe I am just trapped in the mixed messages of speech therapy. I have been offering tools to improve fluency AND activities to help with acceptance of stuttering, self-advocay, self-esteme and self-expression. In general, I find the parents are more interested in the former and the children are more interested in the latter. So, the parents continue to tell me that their children are stuttering (when, where, how) and want to know what to do about it. Again and again, I encourage specific home practice, explain the difficulty of transfer, remind them not to blame the child, and suggest tolerance for stuttering. For the most part, the parents want fluency. As a parent, I understand this. But their requests for fluency are frustrating to me. As I write this, I see that I have actually set up this dilema - how can we have both fluency and acceptance of stuttering? What do the parents of your students ask you about increasing fluency and what do you tell them? Thanks again. Judy


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