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From: A Stutterer...Who Continues to stutter...
Date: 20 Oct 2008
Time: 11:08:58 -0500
Remote Name: 205.213.111.52
Ed Feuer....This thread and the responses of the professors is very revealing to me. This ISAD conference is primarily very much a group of "mutually admired amongst each other" professors giving props to each other for their perceptions of being so successful in providing effective and successful therapy to those of us who stutter. To them, there is no code of silence. They are all doing the right thing and there are no mistakes in therapy or bad therapy...ever. They are letting you know you are wrong and that you have a problem. I heard a guy talk at the NSA Conference this past summer and something he said that has really stuck with me is this - The "experts" really beleive this: THE FAILURE IN THERAPY FOR STUTTERING IS NEVER THE FAULT OF THE THERAPY OR THE THERAPIST ... IT IS ALWAYS THE FAULT OF THE CLIENT OR PARENT. We who stutter need to get this. Are you getting it Ed? If not, the experts think you should start to get it. I know the professionals have greatly failed those of us who stutter. All one has to do is look at the ASHA required (not) preparation to work with those of us who stutter. Or look at the very successful (not) therapy for kids who stutter in the schools. Challenge ASHA? You had better have both lots of time and unequaled $ to do so. The Self-Help groups are so far up the a**** of the ASHA Organizations and the SFA that the self-help groups no longer represent the needs of those of us who stutter as an organization. As to when it will change? A parent of a CWS will have to recognize how a professional messed up with their kid, have a lot of money, and sue'em for all they got. Has to be legally accomplished much like what was done in the area of Autism in order for change to occur. I don't believe the professors would be so disrespectful to you if they were in a courtroom with a lawyer whose purpose was their pocketbook... OF COURSE THERE IS A CODE OF SILENCE!!! But they won't ever admit or tell you that. But Ed...We who stutter are also at fault because we have failed ourselves to go after the posers. We believe all their crappy crap crap. And we take on their belief that WE are the fault. I feel quite confident in saying that in 25 - 30 years, stuttering will no longer be allowed to be treated by speech and language trained pathologists. It will be addressed in a multidisciplinary approach head by a psychiatrist. Now start to get it, Ed. Or get a lawyer and start the change...