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From: Gary J. Rentschler
Date: 16 Oct 2008
Time: 16:07:44 -0500
Remote Name: 71.162.26.39
Like Vivian, I too spend my time teaching graduate students how to do stuttering therapy and providing continuing education for SLPs. In response to your question about what would happen to an SLP if they expressed the views you do.... There are legal actions for SLPs and the lay public to pursue... but accusations differ from facts. An inaccurate accusation is slander. There are ethical sanctions for SLPs who do not provide services competently to clients Ethical complaints submitted to ASHA are taken very seriously and resolved. So I must conclude that others, including yourself, don't have the factual data to support their accusations, or are satisfied with their own inaction. I would submit that there are adequate systems in place to deal with unprofessional behaviors... so why do you think they are "untested" in the area of stuttering? You suggest a "code of silence"... in my view, this is unlikely because there is nothing to prevent any person, SLP or not, from filing a complaint. With regard to peer-reviewed research articles, I have not seen your concerns to be borne out. As a profession, we are looking for new ideas, not "reassurances" that our current thinking is "the only way". I see the tenure process in the same light. Our society is so quick to jump to legal action that tenure committees and reviewers for journals would not risk a discrimination suit. Is the world perfect? No. But again, we seem to have a very different perspective on this issue.