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Re: Leadership Crisis?

From: Joe D.
Date: 22 Oct 2008
Time: 08:52:48 -0500
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Comments

Mark, I see your point regarding teaching SLP graduate students that there is more to stuttering than merely syllable counts. I also understand your concern with teaching inexperienced clinicians that the gold standard of therapy for every client is behavioral procedures alone. However, I think that the ISAD has provided the flip side of the coin. For example, Charlie Healey discusses the importance of looking at stuttering from a multidimensional perspective and his article actually states that solely teaching techniques is not the answer. In my view, the mechanism for instituting change within the profession starts in conferences like this where a multitude of perspectives are discussed. I would also argue that when pws voice their opinions about programs or techniques, that can be as effective as having the "senior SLPs" voice their opinions. Finally, a glimmer of hope can be seen in the professional literature where increasingly more papers are being published that look at stuttering from a wider perspective and even employ methodologies from other disciplines. Is it great, certainly not but I do see strides in the right direction.


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