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Touching the head of the snake

From: Walt Manning
Date: 09 Oct 2012
Time: 09:03:19 -0500
Remote Name: 141.225.97.52

Comments

As Kevin said, it is unfortunate if the clinicians you know are afraid of focusing on the nature of stuttering. I work hard to get my students to focus on stutting and become desensitized to putting stutting in their own mouths as they engage listeners in their daily activities. I want them to be able to lead the way in showing their clients that they can give themsleves permission to stutter and play with different, more effective ways of stuttering. In the process fluency shaping concepts are incorporated and the eventual goals of the process include enhanced fluency and better communication. But the process isn't going to get vary far if the clinician doesn't lead the way by, as Van Riper said, "Touching the head of the snake."

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