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From: Retz
Date: 15 Oct 2007
Time: 21:55:56 -0500
Remote Name: 69.210.121.8
Ken - Hello to You! Thanks for the response to my post. I guess my experience professionally has been that by the time the clients I most often have the honor of working with -(children who stutter and their parents) - begin working with me, they often share/feel that their previous therapy experiences have contributed to a more severe type of stuttering. For what ever reasons, professionals they had worked with previously often led them to believe - or told them directly - that they were the cause of "failure" in therapy....not the therapy, not the therapist, but the fault of the CWS and the parent. In my experience with adults who stutter that have had therapy, I have found many who choose not to speak - or limit their verbal output greatly - because they are uncomfortable, not only with stuttering, but with their "failure" in using techniques to stop, control or modify their stuttering. In these cases, I wonder about the "therapy" and/or the therapist as well as the pws... I do believe there are some forms of therapy that when engaged in, risk the child who stutters, and the adult who stutters, into developing a more severe stutter. I recently did an evaluation on a 6 year old who stuttered. It was most interesting as the child had had "turtle talk" therapy and Stuttering Mod. techniques administered to her over the course of a year in the school setting. At the IEP meeting at the end of the school year, the school slp suggested a goal of the child using a picture communication system because the child's stuttering had become so severe during the 9 months of therapy....This is what spurred the parents to contact me. Frightening situation... Certainly it cannot always be because of client factors... Consideration factors for "failure" in therapy must also include the type of therapy as well as potentially the therapist. At least that is what I believe. Again...Thanks for your reply. Hope all goes well with you!