Comments on: Welcome to The Dynamic Stuttering Therapy blog http://stutteringonlinetherapy.com/2009/08/welcome-to-the-dynamic-stuttering-therapy-blog/ From Communication Therapy Institute Sat, 03 Apr 2010 14:30:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc By: Barbara Dahm http://stutteringonlinetherapy.com/2009/08/welcome-to-the-dynamic-stuttering-therapy-blog/comment-page-1/#comment-13 Barbara Dahm Sun, 13 Sep 2009 08:40:26 +0000 http://stutteringonlinetherapy.com/wordpress/?p=169#comment-13 Hi Pam, I agree that effective communication is the ultimate goal for all people. By allowing yourself to stutter, it is most likely that you allowed yourself to speak more freely without the fear of stuttering. I think that is great. Doing this is not in contradiction of what my clients do. However, they don't do voluntary stuttering. I don't recommend that because for most people it requires thinking about stuttering and how to stutter. It requires attention to speech. The principle of DST is to give up thought about how to speak either by trying to be fluent or trying to stutter. The word "normal" can have many interpretations. Certainly some people have the tendency to produce stuttered speech. This is what they are used to doing. However, all people change a lot of things that they are used to doing. Change is part of life. I wouldn't say that stuttered speech is "normal" for human communication. That isn't a quality judgement. It is a fact. Some people prefer to do what they've done as much as possible in their life. Others are interested in making changes. I help people who stutter to communicate without effort and their speech happens to sound normally fluent. Is that a bad thing? Hi Pam,
I agree that effective communication is the ultimate goal for all people. By allowing yourself to stutter, it is most likely that you allowed yourself to speak more freely without the fear of stuttering. I think that is great. Doing this is not in contradiction of what my clients do. However, they don’t do voluntary stuttering. I don’t recommend that because for most people it requires thinking about stuttering and how to stutter. It requires attention to speech. The principle of DST is to give up thought about how to speak either by trying to be fluent or trying to stutter.

The word “normal” can have many interpretations. Certainly some people have the tendency to produce stuttered speech. This is what they are used to doing. However, all people change a lot of things that they are used to doing. Change is part of life. I wouldn’t say that stuttered speech is “normal” for human communication. That isn’t a quality judgement. It is a fact. Some people prefer to do what they’ve done as much as possible in their life. Others are interested in making changes. I help people who stutter to communicate without effort and their speech happens to sound normally fluent. Is that a bad thing?

]]> By: Pam http://stutteringonlinetherapy.com/2009/08/welcome-to-the-dynamic-stuttering-therapy-blog/comment-page-1/#comment-12 Pam Sun, 13 Sep 2009 03:52:16 +0000 http://stutteringonlinetherapy.com/wordpress/?p=169#comment-12 Hi Barbara, Your ideas are certainly different from what I have heard abou the goals of therapy. I have stuttering since age 5, lived covertly for many years,and finally tired of that about 3 years ago. I have been working on effective communication, which for me includes stuttering. One thing that you wrote in one of your initial posts caught my eye: that you had clients coming to you with the desire to speak "normally". I have always hated the concept of "normal" ! For me, stuttering is normal. Its what I do. Do you agree that for some people who stutter it is normal, just as fluent speech for the fluent speaker is normal. Interesting, huh? Hi Barbara,

Your ideas are certainly different from what I have heard abou the goals of therapy. I have stuttering since age 5, lived covertly for many years,and finally tired of that about 3 years ago. I have been working on effective communication, which for me includes stuttering.

One thing that you wrote in one of your initial posts caught my eye:
that you had clients coming to you with the desire to speak “normally”. I have always hated the concept of “normal” ! For me, stuttering is normal. Its what I do. Do you agree that for some people who stutter it is normal, just as fluent speech for the fluent speaker is normal.

Interesting, huh?

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