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From: Jim Clarkson. Australia
Date: 10/18/01
Time: 6:43:33 AM
Remote Name: 210.49.20.37
Dear Professors
My question could be considered of a personal and general interest nature, as I do not usually readily give advice on speech matters to others,
There are four adult stutterer’s in a friendly social activity group. One has continuous blocks and shows some struggle behaviour. Another has many stutters and shows no struggle behaviour. The next has many stutters and some blocks, but only shows struggle when blocking. The last has severe whole word repetitions and shows a large struggle.
If they were all in a post therapy stage, which ones if any would you tend to prefer to use in their maintenance program, a regular practice of voluntary stuttering or desensitisation as it is more commonly known. Or would you recommend it as a less frequent use as an identifier of stuttering only. My attitude to this could have become somewhat old fashioned.
Looking forward to your answers. Jim Clarkson. p.w.s.