Comments on: The ‘Monster Study’ on Stuttering http://www.spring.org.uk/2007/06/monster-study.php Understand your mind with the science of psychology - Mon, 04 May 2009 10:30:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Teacher http://www.spring.org.uk/2007/06/monster-study.php/comment-page-3#comment-20491 Teacher Thu, 20 Sep 2007 02:42:00 +0000 http://spring.org.uk/2007/06/the-monster-study-on-stuttering.php#comment-20491 Yes, retz, count me among the ones interested. Yes, retz, count me among the ones interested.

]]> By: Retz http://www.spring.org.uk/2007/06/monster-study.php/comment-page-3#comment-20485 Retz Tue, 18 Sep 2007 16:22:00 +0000 http://spring.org.uk/2007/06/the-monster-study-on-stuttering.php#comment-20485 Hello-<br />I was directed to this blog by a friend of mine who stutters.<br /><br />I was 1 of 3 expert witnesses retained by the lawfirm representing 5 of the 6 plantiffs in the recently concluded lawsuit re: "The Monster Study".<br /><br />I am wondering if anyone on this blog would be interested in the findings regarding the study and its aftermath?<br /><br />Sincerely,<br />Michael J. Retzinger, M.S., CCC-SLP<br />Board Recognized Specialist & Mentor - Fluency Disorders Hello-
I was directed to this blog by a friend of mine who stutters.

I was 1 of 3 expert witnesses retained by the lawfirm representing 5 of the 6 plantiffs in the recently concluded lawsuit re: "The Monster Study".

I am wondering if anyone on this blog would be interested in the findings regarding the study and its aftermath?

Sincerely,
Michael J. Retzinger, M.S., CCC-SLP
Board Recognized Specialist & Mentor - Fluency Disorders

]]> By: Teacher http://www.spring.org.uk/2007/06/monster-study.php/comment-page-3#comment-20477 Teacher Sun, 16 Sep 2007 01:23:00 +0000 http://spring.org.uk/2007/06/the-monster-study-on-stuttering.php#comment-20477 As a thirty-five year old stutterer myself, I'm finding this blog very interesting. I hope people are not abandoning it already. I find when I'm talking to kids--which is my job as a primary school teacher--I am much more relaxed and fluent than when I talk to adults, especially strangers. Relaxation therapy, meditation, any sort of tricks of the mind ... while hardly scientific, may in fact help "fool" a stutterer's brain out of a potential upcoming stutter. It works for me usually. What does everybody think? As a thirty-five year old stutterer myself, I'm finding this blog very interesting. I hope people are not abandoning it already. I find when I'm talking to kids--which is my job as a primary school teacher--I am much more relaxed and fluent than when I talk to adults, especially strangers. Relaxation therapy, meditation, any sort of tricks of the mind ... while hardly scientific, may in fact help "fool" a stutterer's brain out of a potential upcoming stutter. It works for me usually. What does everybody think?

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.spring.org.uk/2007/06/monster-study.php/comment-page-3#comment-20474 Anonymous Fri, 14 Sep 2007 13:20:00 +0000 http://spring.org.uk/2007/06/the-monster-study-on-stuttering.php#comment-20474 when my son was little he would stutter, I would hear him start to struggle and say a "catch phrase" such as "super-cala-fragil-istic-expi-ala-docious". It gave his brain just enough of a distraction to catch up with his speach. he doesn't stutter anymore. Maybe it would work with adults, you could try to thing of a very long word, use the same word all the time, when you started to stutter to distract you thought process and your speech, and relax the mind, it might help, with some practice. just a suggestion from a mom. when my son was little he would stutter, I would hear him start to struggle and say a "catch phrase" such as "super-cala-fragil-istic-expi-ala-docious". It gave his brain just enough of a distraction to catch up with his speach. he doesn't stutter anymore. Maybe it would work with adults, you could try to thing of a very long word, use the same word all the time, when you started to stutter to distract you thought process and your speech, and relax the mind, it might help, with some practice. just a suggestion from a mom.

]]> By: Antonio http://www.spring.org.uk/2007/06/monster-study.php/comment-page-3#comment-20458 Antonio Wed, 12 Sep 2007 03:50:00 +0000 http://spring.org.uk/2007/06/the-monster-study-on-stuttering.php#comment-20458 Excellent comentaries. I liked specially the article "<a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/69997/A-neurological-basis-of-stuttering" rel="nofollow">The neurological basis of stuttering?</a>"<br /><br />Congratulations for the one who indicated it.<br /><br />Fortunately, still there's light and rationality in the middle of so much darkness. Excellent comentaries. I liked specially the article "The neurological basis of stuttering?"

Congratulations for the one who indicated it.

Fortunately, still there's light and rationality in the middle of so much darkness.

]]> By: Jeremy (PsyBlog author) http://www.spring.org.uk/2007/06/monster-study.php/comment-page-3#comment-20411 Jeremy (PsyBlog author) Wed, 29 Aug 2007 21:42:00 +0000 http://spring.org.uk/2007/06/the-monster-study-on-stuttering.php#comment-20411 Hi Stutterer, apology accepted of course. <br /><br />Thanks for sharing your experience - I really do welcome all perspectives. Hi Stutterer, apology accepted of course.

Thanks for sharing your experience - I really do welcome all perspectives.

]]> By: A Stutterer... http://www.spring.org.uk/2007/06/monster-study.php/comment-page-2#comment-20410 A Stutterer... Wed, 29 Aug 2007 21:24:00 +0000 http://spring.org.uk/2007/06/the-monster-study-on-stuttering.php#comment-20410 Jeremy Dean-<br /><br />My apologies. Nothin' but respect from me for your request.<br /><br />Many of us who stutter and belong to self help groups suspect that the # 1 reason for more severe stuttering developing in children who stutter as they grow into adults who stutter is the type of "therapy" that is inflicted upon us when we are young... Fluency traing/shaping and Stuttering Modification techniques. These "techniques" are very similar to the "techniques" used to make the orphans stutter and really ruined the quality of their lives. <br /><br />Fear is a most damaging thing to the human psych. Kids are fragile.<br /><br />I guess I personally have a difficult time with the "experts."<br />A child's life can easily be ruined by bad "therapy". I really believe we who stutter know the most about stuttering, but "experts" mostly refuse to listen to those of us who stutter. <br /><br />People judge intelligence... wrongly I believe...By what and how you say things. Because we stutter, most professionals view many of us who stutter as stupid...wrongly so.<br /><br />It is a terrible plight for a stutterer to chose silence in life.<br />Yet most of us do.<br /><br />It is my hope you accept my apology. Jeremy Dean-

My apologies. Nothin' but respect from me for your request.

Many of us who stutter and belong to self help groups suspect that the # 1 reason for more severe stuttering developing in children who stutter as they grow into adults who stutter is the type of "therapy" that is inflicted upon us when we are young... Fluency traing/shaping and Stuttering Modification techniques. These "techniques" are very similar to the "techniques" used to make the orphans stutter and really ruined the quality of their lives.

Fear is a most damaging thing to the human psych. Kids are fragile.

I guess I personally have a difficult time with the "experts."
A child's life can easily be ruined by bad "therapy". I really believe we who stutter know the most about stuttering, but "experts" mostly refuse to listen to those of us who stutter.

People judge intelligence... wrongly I believe...By what and how you say things. Because we stutter, most professionals view many of us who stutter as stupid...wrongly so.

It is a terrible plight for a stutterer to chose silence in life.
Yet most of us do.

It is my hope you accept my apology.

]]> By: Jeremy (PsyBlog author) http://www.spring.org.uk/2007/06/monster-study.php/comment-page-2#comment-20393 Jeremy (PsyBlog author) Tue, 28 Aug 2007 09:55:00 +0000 http://spring.org.uk/2007/06/the-monster-study-on-stuttering.php#comment-20393 Hi Stutterer, I appreciate you putting forward your view but please can you keep it polite.<br /><br />Thanks. Hi Stutterer, I appreciate you putting forward your view but please can you keep it polite.

Thanks.

]]> By: A stutterer... http://www.spring.org.uk/2007/06/monster-study.php/comment-page-2#comment-20385 A stutterer... Sat, 25 Aug 2007 15:28:00 +0000 http://spring.org.uk/2007/06/the-monster-study-on-stuttering.php#comment-20385 The only ones who need a definition of stuttering are the "experts" and "researchers"...<br /><br />We who stutter KNOW what it is...<br /><br />researcher...Do your experiments on your own kids...you freak... The only ones who need a definition of stuttering are the "experts" and "researchers"...

We who stutter KNOW what it is...

researcher...Do your experiments on your own kids...you freak...

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.spring.org.uk/2007/06/monster-study.php/comment-page-2#comment-20361 Anonymous Tue, 21 Aug 2007 14:10:00 +0000 http://spring.org.uk/2007/06/the-monster-study-on-stuttering.php#comment-20361 researcher -<br /><br />I'd be interested in your definition of what "stutttering" is.<br /><br />Thank you researcher -

I'd be interested in your definition of what "stutttering" is.

Thank you

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