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From: Samantha T., NMU student
Date: 21 Oct 2008
Time: 20:40:10 -0500
Remote Name: 204.38.203.69
As an undergraduate student and a future speech language pathologist, this article provided great advice and suggestions about how to be the best clinician for the clients. The portion that I really took to heart and enjoyed was the stress placed on individual treatment methods. In my experience, people relish being categorized and filed into groups by comparison with others. The same can be said about those clumped into the category of people who stutter. As clinicians, we must understand that the client who enters the office seeking treatment for stuttering is not just another "person who stutters", but, in fact, he/she is an individual displaying their own array of core and secondary behaviors and possessing a unique personality. All of these factors influence treatment, and, therefore, there is an obvious need for individual assessment and a correct treatment or set of treatments for each person who stutters. The focus and repetition of this idea throughout the article should be an understanding for all future SLPs, and I know I will take this advice with me into the depths of my career.