STUTTERISM™ A Term Coined to Promote
Long-Term Fluency
Richard Borys
To stimulate discussion and debate, I’ll explain for 10-15
minutes:
- 12
step programs, stemming from Alcoholics Anonymous (“AA”) over 70 years
ago.
- AA
ideas being appropriated to help others with physical addictions (e.g.,
overeating) and non-physical (e.g., compulsive shopping).
- A
logical comparison between stutterers,
capable of attaining desired treatment results, who resist maintaining
such results; and, addicts, who show similar
resistances.
- STUTTERISM™
as a term of convenience.
- How
the 12 step “practice”, using the term STUTTERISM™, can be used, primarily by stutterers for stutterers;
to counter patterns inimical to attaining/maintaining fluency results.
Discussion will follow in the remaining time.
