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From: Ed Feuer
Date: 17 Oct 2008
Time: 17:10:02 -0500
Remote Name: 12.104.231.121
Ellen-Marie accuses me of "stirring up things as usual." Well, to that I can only say that given the current sad state of affairs in stuttering therapy, it's incomprehensible why SLPs are not doing the stirring up. Regarding incompetent clinicians, I refer those who replied to Woody Starkweather whom I quoted last year at: http://www.mnsu.edu/comdis/cahn_mnsu_edu/10profin/_disc53/0000006a.htm His statement on the subject (which broke the Code of Silence) might be somewhat tougher to spin away than mine. Gary said "there is nothing to prevent any person, SLP or not, from filing a complaint." Tell me, Gary, how many complaints have SLPs filed to ASHA about SLPs who lack competence to treat stuttering? I have put forth some of the severe failings of what currently passes for stuttering therapy, most of which the professors here have not and cannot refute. So what's it going to take for real change? Will people who stutter have to file a class action against ASHA? Maybe it's time for the SLP profession to get out of stuttering altogether. Maybe instead they should concentrate on their hot new area of swallowing disorders (gulp) -- something that has nothing to do with speech or language although there is pathology and not necessarily on the part of the patients. Maybe stuttering should be handled by clinical psychologists with a specialization in desensitization. And maybe they'd prove to be better facilitators in a coordinated multidisciplinary team approach. There is something about stuttering that produces much denial, and take note students, that denial also affects practitioners invested in the status quo . . . -- edfeuer@mts.net