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From: Katie Borek, graduate clinician
Date: 21 Oct 2006
Time: 18:44:43 -0500
Remote Name: 24.195.17.219
Hi Peter, I am a graduate student at the College of Saint Rose in Albany, NY. I will graduate in August with a Master's Degree in Communication Disorders. I really enjoyed reading your article about the use of positive language. The College of Saint Rose focuses on the Synergistic Approach and takes into account feelings and attitudes, which I believe is a crucial domain to cover within therapy. I liked how you talked about using positive language to discuss stuttering. I believe that we as clinicians need to teach clients that it is okay to stutter and how to deal with their feelings. I liked how you gave examples on how to reword negative statements about stuttering into positive ones. I would imagine that you must see a huge difference with clients once you teach them and their everyday communication partners to use positive language when talking about stuttering. Do you see a big difference in their attitudes and feelings once they are taught positive language vs. negative language? Also, I have always referred to people who stutter as PWS not “stutterers.” Do you feel that more people consider themselves PWS or stutterers? Which way do you find that most people in our field refer to PWS? Thank you, Katie Borek