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From: Jaime Covington
Date: 19 Oct 2007
Time: 17:44:03 -0500
Remote Name: 70.189.48.166
My name is Jaime Covington and I am in my first year of graduate school in Speech Language Pathology. I read through most of the articles on this site and your writing really caught my eye. I am in a fluency class right now and much of what you talked about in your paper we are learning, especially the stuttering modification and fluency shaping techniques. We have read many articles over the past couple of weeks and one of the common themes that runs through these articles is that many speech language pathologist feel the least prepared and confident in their training and skills when it comes to suttering therapy when they graduate. In your aritcle you mentioned that at one time you wanted to seek therapy but in your city of 700,000 a good speech therapist was hard to find. I was wondering what made you come to this conclusion? Was it that you heard stories of people not being sucessfull in therapy? Or did you try therapy and were not satisfied with the treatment you recieved? Or was there just not an abundance of speech therapist in your area at the time that were trained specifically in fluency disorders?