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From: Jessica Heckel
Date: 12 Oct 2007
Time: 12:13:02 -0500
Remote Name: 24.177.135.117
Hello to Charlie and fellow UWSP attendees! I have quite the perspective to offer as a former student of Charlie's at UWSP, a PWS, and a current school-based SLP! I think everyone offers very valid points. I think it is unfortunate that the time allotted for study of fluency disorders at the university level has decreased, but I think Charlie addressed it well in that there is such a diverse scope of practice involved with being an SLP these days that touching each subject is necessary. I had the experience of participating in the ISAD Online Conference as a student and I continue to participate on a yearly basis. I enjoy interacting with colleagues regarding the issue as well as other PWS. I think that is one of the keys to this conference...offering students with exposure to insight directly from PWS adds such an important component to providing competent services-beginning to understand what they are going through and how frustrating it truly can be on the other side of the table. I have been on the client and the clinician side and I definitely feel my fluency exposure at UWSP from such a great professor like Charlie and my "forced" assignment to look into the ISAD Online Conference truly helps to round me out as a person and as a professional. My thanks to my colleagues at UWSP (graduate students included) for submitting such a quality and insightful article!