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From: Gunars
Date: 04 Oct 2006
Time: 23:36:33 -0500
Remote Name: 24.19.13.251
William, I enjoyed your article. When I consider Edison and his trying hundreds if not thousands of filaments until he found the right one, I wonder why people give up on stuttering therapy whether using speech techniques or psychotherapy. Edison held onto two beliefs: 1)Genius is 99% perspiration and 1% inspiration and 2) When another fillament material failed he is reported to have said, "Good, I found out one material that does not work." Now why can't people who stutter have the same attitudes? Why is it that people who stutter give up on therapy after trying only a few therapists or theories? Why can't the say, "I found that this therapy does not work for me, let me see what else can I try"? Is the fiscal cost too high? Or is it the emotional cost of trying and then defining it as failing? Is it that therapists are blaming the clients "you are not trying hard enough"? Is it the inherited or learned low frustration tolerance? Is it a disbelief that anything can help them? Or is a cost/benefit analysis carried out in such a way as to signify that the cost is too high and the benefit too low? Gunaars