Stuttering and Down Syndrome

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Re: Stuttering & Down's

From: Judith Eckardt
Date: 10 Oct 2008
Time: 11:53:05 -0500
Remote Name: 24.12.241.50

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Hello, Thank you for your comments. One point I need to add is that SECONDARY BEHAVIORS can not be dismissed. Secondary behaviors emerge from fear of stuttering and trying to reduced that fear with avoidance behaviors. For a period of time, a secondary behavior works for the PWS but gradually, it quits working. That is why we call them "garbage behaviors" . What gets the "garbage behaviors" to go away, is facing the fear of stuttering and reducing avoidance behaviors. Judith


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