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From: Dale Williams
Date: 10/2/00
Time: 9:28:48 AM
Remote Name: 131.91.248.210
My congratulations to the authors on a great paper. About a year ago here at FAU, we grouped 3 9 year-old males for a session. All 3 stuttered, were in denial about it, and exhibited false bravado about its effects (i.e., "I don't have a problem and, besides, my problem doesn't bother me"). What the clinicians did was to give the boys paper and markers and ask each of them to create a new Poke Mon that represented their stuttering. They were given enough time to develop all the necessary information, e.g., battle techniques, evolutions, etc. (parents will know what I mean). Then they explained their creations to the others. We found out more about their fears, emotions, attitudes, experiences, and how they perceived stuttering than we had with everything else we had tried up to that point.