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From: Christina NMU student
Date: 14 Oct 2008
Time: 11:15:23 -0500
Remote Name: 204.38.20.54
I found this research review article to be particularly helpful when planning a comprehensive treatment program for disfluency. As a student, I often feel so bogged down with theories and structured methods of various treatments that I fail to see the importance of considering a client’s knowledge base and attitudes about his or her disorder. These “personal” characteristics found within the client are just as important as the overt stuttering behaviors that are evident in the client’s speech output. I believe that multidimensional models such as the CALMS model provide a comprehensive account for any disorder, not just for stuttering. Taking the “whole person” into account allows for the clinician to address the complex interactions and multiple factors that influence a client’s stuttering. Stuttering is indisputably very dynamic in nature. Since it is constantly changing given various environmental and emotional triggers, treatment methods that address fluency disorders must be integrated and incorporate different perspectives. As Healey addresses the seven principles of stuttering therapy, I find that his model of treatment improves overall communication skills by considering a multitude of factors that influence stuttering behaviors.