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From: Kate Conlon grad student
Date: 18 Oct 2008
Time: 09:57:52 -0500
Remote Name: 71.164.99.124
This was a great article.I am a graduate student in speech language pathology and at this point my goal is to work as school based SLP. I am very interested in fluency and this idea about stuttering specialists in schools was informative. I live in a very rural area. The schools around me typically have one elementary school, and mostly one building that is middle/high school. In areas like this would a specialist contract out with the county and work with multiple districts in that county? Would the county be involved at all in a situation like this or would the SLP just have multiple contracts with multiple districts? Has this issue been explored yet? Since stuttering is not as prevalent a disorder and there might not be very many childen who stutter in a small district I think that county health departments should consider this type of contract with speech pathologists. Thanks for this article and thank you in advance for your time in answering my questions!