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Re: What are the issues?

From: Ed Feuer
Date: 04 Oct 2007
Time: 12:38:49 -0500
Remote Name: 209.202.44.141

Comments

Thank you for responding, Ken. The comparative delay in response to my question by your colleagues might have created the impression that there are no current issues dividing SLPs and that their professional gatherings pertaining to stuttering are one big love-in where they sit around singing Kumbayah. But while the issues you cite are in themselves interesting, I respectfully suggest other, more pressing problems which ought to be the subject of some very heated discussions at your conventions. Such as: the continuing travesty of clinic-room fraud; token therapy; short-term quickie fixes; distractor devices and some SLPs peddling these devices; the false hope of the pink pill; flawed research methodology in which subjects are not differentiated according to severity, age, gender, overt, covert, before or after intensive treatment; school boards paying SLPs unqualified to treat kids who stutter; and other SLPs not blowing the whistle in such situations; ASHA not enforcing standards; and the absence of genuine multidisciplinary interaction. I submit that the failure (or refusal) to effectively address these issues has harmed the profession and has failed people who stutter. edfeuer@mts.net


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