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From: Bobby Childers
Date: 10/7/01
Time: 11:40:51 PM
Remote Name: 216.234.193.78
When I first started speech therapy in Spring 2000, my student clinician spent the first couple of sessions asking me how I felt when I stuttered. Which was something that no one else had ever done before.
She asked me if I felt fear, frustration, denial, or shame when I stuttered. Fear and frustration are common experiences for me, but since I am not a covert stutterer, I can not deny my stuttering, and shame is not in my vocabulary.
She immediately began using the fear hierarchy to help me reduce my fears in speaking situations. My subsquent student clinicians continued in the same vein, and kept expanding it further and further out.
I still have the fear and frustration, but not as much as I used too. So I assume that their techniques (which sound like yours) was beneficial and it helped me to accept my stuttering as a part of my persona and not a curse from the gods.
Thanks Woody, for the excellent article. --Bobby