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From: laura
Date: 16 Oct 2007
Time: 11:59:50 -0500
Remote Name: 216.213.227.3
At the risk of being burned at the stake, I will say that I work in the public schools. I think what is missing from this discussion is how to make the public school SLP prepared for all students on his or her caseload. I believe this is through specialists employed by the district in all areas including fluency. But what I really wanted to say was there are parents that I have never met. They don't come to meetings, reply to telephone calls, or letters. I have had parents tell me they wanted there child in real speech therapy not the speech therapy in the schools. I remember in graduate school the feeling from the professors that school speech therapy was somehow less. As long as the profession freely bashes school speech pathologists parents will think it is less and therefore even when it is better it will be less because no one will listen. Stop thinking about where it is bad and look for where it is good and try to repeat it.