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From: Pamela Mertz
Date: 01 Oct 2008
Time: 09:54:54 -0500
Remote Name: 163.153.6.145
This was a wonderful article. It was nice to read how these ideas grew from thought, to trial, to re-examining, to implemetation, and success. And the three mindsets together really drilled this concept home: that stuttering is a complex issue that demands clinician openess and willingness, and a need for clinician alliance with the public school system. I work in a public school as a career counselor, and I stutter. I see the school SLP visit once or twice a week - I don't think she has any kids on her caseload with fluency issues. But she has to contend with so much: scheduling snafus, lack of space, lack of respect for what she is doing, an enormous amount of paperwork, etc. I remember my very limited experience of speech therapy when I was in third grade. Looking back, it was useless. I did not have therapy again until adulthood. I applaud you for instilling this important piece into the public schools. One question: do you see any value in me, as adult PWS, perhaps approaching the district SLP team and offering to maybe do a talk or inservice on my experiences as a PWS? Or would this be perhaps negatively received, because I am not a speech professional? Pam