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From: Ed Feuer
Date: 07 Oct 2007
Time: 15:15:33 -0500
Remote Name: 207.161.14.189
Greg, you promise specific answers to specific questions. OK. Do you acknowledge that the following exist; do you regard them as problems; and if so do you agree that the profession's failure (or refusal) to effectively address these issues has harmed the profession and has failed people who stutter: 1) the continuing travesty of clinic-room fraud; 2) token therapy; 3) short-term quickie fixes; 4) the promotion and sale of distractor devices and some SLPs peddling these devices; 5) the false hope of the pink pill; 6) flawed research methodology in which subjects are not differentiated according to severity, age, gender, overt, covert, before or after intensive treatment; 7) SLPs lacking qualifications to treat stuttering claiming they can treat stuttering 8) school boards paying SLPs unqualified to treat kids who stutter and other SLPs not blowing the whistle; 9) ASHA not enforcing standards; 10) the absence of genuine multidisciplinary interaction. Answers from any of the professors would be welcome -- and instructive. edfeuer@mts.net