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From: Gunars K. Neiders
Date: 10/5/01
Time: 7:54:29 PM
Remote Name: 12.13.226.16
Judy, Ken, and Rae,
When I use a smiley face, it can also convey happiness as in the following sentence. At my age it is still a joy to learn.:-) And your very informative article told in a succinct, well reasoned out style has been a great learning experience for me. :-) Chuck full of information but not boring.
Maybe it will never be my style to recommend story telling as a substitute for hard nosed therapy :-), and I don't think that either you, Judy or Ken, based on my past would expect me to :-), but I will certainly recommend that "people who stutter "take stock" of their stuttering periodically by telling their story" as you Ken recommend. In fact, I will start to do that myself.
As for you, Judy, it never ceases to amaze me where you find time to do everything you do. The story by Cate, age 10 "A Presentation for My Class", "Teasing", and "Been There, Done That" are a Godsend, since next week a friend of our family, who has an eleven year old son who stutters, will be flying into town and I have volunteered to spend some time with him.
Now the inevitable :-) and irritating :-) questions:
Ken, do you have any rules of thumb of the frequency of "taking stock", both during therapy and afterward in the maintenance phase? Have you found out if the frequency best be decided by the calendar or by events?
Judy, if I wrote a piece for The Stuttering Home Page, how many times am I allowed to use REBT? :-) or mention the name of my mentor Albert Ellis?
Rae, can you name a couple of your favorite books that you have published? Are they available via www.amazon.com or can you give me an e-mail address where I can order them. This paper made me nostalgic for the old times, before television, when the highlight at a dinner table and afterward while doing dishes was the well told experience or story about a friend's or neighbor's experience.
Gunars
p.s. Hope to run into you in New Orleans.