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From: Charlie Healey
Date: 12 Oct 2007
Time: 11:42:00 -0500
Remote Name: 129.93.99.57
Hey Retz, Sorry I didn't see your reply until now. My apology. Now that you have clarified "do no harm" I agree with you totally. We certainly don't want to have people work with people who stutter who are not qualified to do so. That's even unethical. Many clinicians have good intentions and may be doing things that are not helpful. Those people just need more training. One last point about this. I think that consumers need to be more proactive when therapy isn't working. I see no value in blaming clinicians when clients or parents are not happy with the services. If I pay for a service and I'm not happy with it, I complain and confront the person providing the service. Parents or consumers need go to someone who is better and now that we have fluency specialists, we hope that more people who stutter are getting better therapy. The resources are there if people use them.