Group environment key to program's success _. BY ANNA MARIE DANOELO “News Reporter ELEVEN-YEAR-OLD .’Farnoush Barza said her _ stuttering used to stop her ‘from answering questions -because people mighi laugh. ~ But. Barza describes her former stuttering condition as “not really that bad.” ft didn't “stop: her from making good friends... - “* M y friends found: ; it’ “harder © to ander: s.tand what , 1 was’ say- imerview, ig the: articu- . ‘plained that. her stuttering | condition. has, all but’ been : Special. pathologist Wendy uke, who lives. in. West fancouver, Said, the. program involved more than: 100 hours $6 Part of the therapy involves slowing down the rate of speech ina specific way and. “. learning.to start earn gently. ‘the — reactions “If you see a child for 30 minutes a week in the school system that just doesn't do it. They don’t make fast enough progress to be encouraged,” said Duke. . Duke is the owner of Columbia Speech & Language Services Inc. Most of the young people who took the program are between ages |l-and §7 and were referred by school board speech pathologists. The cost per client is 31.450 which is not cov- cred by the Medical Services Pian. Stuttering is believed bo be caused by some dif- ference in a pevson's neurologi- cal system. Most stut- terers start at the pre-school age where 99 ‘ the repetition of syllables are _ Viewed as “easy.” As a stutter- ing child becomes sensitive to ‘of others, becomes frustrated, embar- . rassed and then anxious about the condition, the stuttering appears as “struggled repeti- tion.” - Duke said there is no cor- relation between left-handed- ness and stuttering. . . More boys than girls stut- ‘ ter: Although the ratio is 1:1 in » pre-school, boys outnumber * girls 3:1 as adult stutterers. 2 “with NetSet, the in-home _ training:professionals _ if you want to get on the Net - or if you've'been trying to surf it without complete success - NetSet has the answer. 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Duke said that" stutterers ‘can be. underemployed « or ‘forced to .shift their social treatment’ is done in a group.-expectations because of the: re environment which involves ‘peer support and peer pres- sure, “For some people, stutter: - ing is not really a problem, it For an information package please contact: NASIA PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT Level A 100, Marine Building, | Vancouver, B.C. Canada V6 2G6 355 Burrard St. Tel 688-3115 or, 1-800-661-8788 Fax. 688-0252 E-mail: apigsm@direct.ca Locations: Hong Kong - Macau - Malaysia - Singapore - China New Zealand - California - Canada difficulties communicating. 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