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From: Maria Anderson, NYU Graduate Student & future SLP
Date: 19 Oct 2008
Time: 14:00:57 -0500
Remote Name: 98.113.87.247
Hi, my name is Maria Anderson, I am a first-year graduate student at NYU's speech-language pathology program, and I am currently taking a course on fluency disorders. Joe Klein, You said that fluency probably doesn't have anything to do with being a good therapist, but do you think that since you can empathize with your client (since you are a stutterer yourself) that gives you an advantage in the client-clinician relationship? Also, I found it very insightful when you said that the underlying reason behind this discussion of a fluent stuttering therapist versus a stuttering fluency therapist has more to do with the person asking the question than the person being asked. I personally feel that it is unrealistic to create a specific mold of the perfect fluency therapist. There may be clients who respond better to clinicians who can show empahty due to their own stuttering hisoty; on the other hand, there may be clients who feel most comfortable witha sympathetic clinican who does not use their own personal experience to relate to the client (some clients may feel threatened by the clinician drawing that comparison). What are your thoughts?