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From: Anders Lundberg
Date: 10/16/00
Time: 2:56:35 AM
Remote Name: 146.21.116.174
If you by data means a comparison of therapy results regarding children who have expressed themselves in drawings or in a more bodily percieved phenomenological mode, no. I think maybe we have to look at the almost automatic connection of the concept of stuttering to the concept of therapy. To help the child to express what stuttering is like, in drawings or in words or in other sensations is also helping *us* to understand the phenomenon in each individual - of therapeutical value or simply the value of understanding what is going on within an other human being. If we go on into therapy, fine, it does help us to use better tools. For example: One child who had learned in school therapy how to bounce (a Johnson technique as most of us know) but always failed by trying that; the bouncing didn't seem to have a meaning for him. When looking at how he perceived stuttering for himself he saw his stuttering as a huge steel door in his throat. And I, I have to admit, also have problems in seeing steel doors bounce! But this boy was very eager in find good keyes for steel doors since keyes make them swing open easier.