What is it about?
The words we use to categorize express our feelings create the glue we stick our experiences to. For people who stutter, having a wide range of vocabulary to express their emotions may help with processing their experiences with stuttering.
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Why is it important?
There are a number of treatment approaches for adolescents and adults who stutter that require them to own the emotional impact stuttering has on their lives. Having a wide variety of words to express those emotions is an important component of processing the feelings associated with stuttering.
Perspectives
I've always been fascinated by the fact that our bodies respond the same to situations on a cellular level whether we are excited or afraid. The words we use to process the "feeling" depends on our own perception of the situation. Ultimately, the words we use to process our emotions determine whether something is "bad" or "good".
Dr. Corrin I Gillis (formerly Richels)
Old Dominion University
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This page is a summary of: Emotion Word Use by Adolescents Who Stutter: An Exploratory Study, Perspectives on Fluency and Fluency Disorders, May 2013, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA),
DOI: 10.1044/ffd23.1.6.
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