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From: Dirk Vannetelbosch
Date: 10/20/01
Time: 5:42:52 PM
Remote Name: 134.29.30.79
Yes, I agree with what Tom Klassen found. People often say to me that my stuttering is not a problem for them. When people tell me this, I know they don't really ignore the stuttering, but they do take away some of the fear of stuttering, and that gives me the extra time I need to talk.
Regarding your second question, I think a lot of stutterers are hoping for a magic cure and that the therapist should be a magician. Some day I would like to write another paper about the therapist. A therapist's job is not easy. I do feel he or she can help people who stutter and needs to give the stutterer hope, but I don't feel competent to comment about a particular approach to therapy. One thing I do believe is that if a speech therapist tells the stutterer it is the stutterer's "fault" if he doesn't succeed in therapy, then I think the speech therapist has a problem.