What is it about?
This paper discusses how a person-centered approach emphasizing mindful contact with embodied feeling states produced positive results for a group of adults enrolled in Multidimensional Individualized Stuttering Therapy (MIST) that were stable at 24 months' post therapy. We discuss how the use of mindful tuning-in to the self as embodied subject in a manner suited to each person who stutters appeared to play a decisive role in the robust and lasting effects of this collaborative therapy.
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Why is it important?
We describe the concept and practice of ‘embodied adjustment’ that emerged as a key contribution of the MIST approach in obtaining these results.
Perspectives
This article was a wonderful opportunity for interdisciplinary collaboration for me. My field is special education approaches to support development of people with congenital deafblindess, and embodiment lies at the heart of our work. Seeing clear connections between aspects of our approach and MIST gave me the opportunity to understand the role of embodied awareness and individualized therapy in a very different group of people. Such change processes are often very difficult to describe in a way that can be applied across cases and across disciplines, and I think we have managed to make a useful contribution in this regard.
Kirsten Costain
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This page is a summary of: Multidimensional Individualized Stuttering Therapy Outcomes At 24 Months Post Clinic: An Embodiment and Awareness Perspective, American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, October 2024, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA),
DOI: 10.1044/2024_ajslp-24-00074.
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