Are You Chasing the Fluency God? (Episode 30)
Posted by StutterTalk at 2/29/2008 11:42 PM and is filed under uncategorized 
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Greg, Peter, Eric and special returning host Joe Klein talk about Goals of Therapy for Adults with a Chronic Stuttering Problem (a short paper by Steve Hood). Goals are discussed such as "I no longer need to chase the Fluency God," "I can live without constant fear of stuttering," "I am not suffering or handicapped because of my stuttering" and "I have choices I can make that help me talk easily." Joe and Peter discuss their favorite ideas by Charles Van Riper (pictured below). To paraphrase Van Riper, 'You don't have a choice if you stutter, but you have a choice of how you will stutter.' Peter discusses this letter that Charles Van Riper sent to Andreas Starke. In the letter, Van Riper says, "We stutterers do not need to learn how to speak fluently. We already know how to do that. All of us can speak fluency at certain times and under certain conditions. What we don't know how is how to stutter fluently."
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The College of Saint Rose is sponsoring their 33rd Weekend Workshop for People Who Stutter at the College of Saint Rose, April 4, 5 and 6, 2008.
Thanks to the Brooklyn-based bands The Hold Steady and The National for supplying their musical goodness to StutterTalk. We also include some fine music from Eric's bands Rocketship Park and Higgins.
I justed wanted to say "thank you so much" for you fantastic podcast. I'm a stutterer from Germany and did a van Riper based therapy some years before. Your show reminds me every week about voluntary stuttering what I should do more
Maybe I leave a voicemail some day.
Take care!
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This should be an everyday focus session.. but yet this is someone who does not murder... just someone to love
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