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From: Greg S
Date: 08 Oct 2007
Time: 06:54:20 -0500
Remote Name: 24.197.196.252
Ed--you’ve come across as angry individual, and this exchange will be archived on the net for the foreseeable future. One may wish to consider this when posting. In that light, I will not take your bate and waste my time to deal with these issues that are apparently unresolved in your mind. It is my hope that you can find peace at some point. There are more or less qualified professionals in every field. Those that I associate with do not continue a travesty of clinic-room fraud, nor do they provide token therapy and short-term quickie fixes. Your complaint about flawed methodology is one that I’ve not found to be accurate in the peer-reviewed refereed scientific literature. Some of the distraction devices that you speak of actually do have quite a bit of merit; it may be worth your time to read the literature and become an informed in that area. And with all this said, I will (as will all on this board) heartedly admit that ASHA has (in many ways) failed relative to stuttering research, and evidence-based stuttering treatment. And in my youth, I was angry at some aspects of the stuttering and SLP reality as well. But I ultimately found that this anger and frustration was useless and ultimately hurt my quality of life. Giving up that anger and frustration, and consciously choosing to enjoy life, was one of the best personal decisions of my life. Good luck on your journey.