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From: Julie Rue
Date: 16 Oct 2006
Time: 19:49:06 -0500
Remote Name: 216.114.240.107
I am a second year graduate student in speech-language pathology and am currently completing an internship in an elementary school. I found your article very interesting as it was a theory that I have never heard of before. I have a clinical question for you. My supervisor and I are working with a 2nd grade boy who stutters. His parents have told us that when he stutters they tell him to "stop it" or to slow down because his words are going faster than his thoughts. Also, they seem to maintain a strict rewards/consequences program at home in which he is earns rewards by things he does and is punished for wrong things he does or mistakes that he makes. We have had a number of conversations with the parents about this, but they just don't seem to get it. From your experience and your work with TA, do you have any suggestions about our work with this boy and his parents?