Multifaceted Stuttering Therapy for Adolescents and Adults: Intensive Therapy and Telepractice

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Re: An effective multifaceted approach

From: Ed Feuer
Date: 14 Oct 2008
Time: 10:12:12 -0500
Remote Name: 142.161.164.182

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I asked: "Would 'potentially effective means of delivering therapy, without simply paying lip service to the process' mean enlisting the help of experts from outside of speech-language pathology in a coordinated multidisciplinary treatment team? Focusing on the first part of your answer, "Yes, it would," let me suggest one small step in that direction. Check out the psychology departments in your local universities to see whether there's anyone there who specializes in desensitization. Call that person, say you'd like to talk about desensitization in stuttering therapy, offer to buy him or her lunch. Lend him or her your copy of Van Riper's, The Treatment of Stuttering, for the chapter on Desensitization: The Reduction of Negative Emotion. Bet they'll like the whole book. That one small step could be a giant leap for stuttering therapy. If you need cover, remember that ASHA's SID4 speciality site lists "multidisciplinary interaction" as one of its professional issues. -- edfeuer@mts.net


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