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From: Chelsea Collins
Date: 05 Oct 2009
Time: 11:43:40 -0500
Remote Name: 67.82.52.185
I am a first-year graduate student at New York University studying Speech-Language Pathology. Currently I am enrolled in a Fluency Disorders class (my first ever on the subject) and I have become especially interested in the counseling aspect of the Speech-Language Pathologist's job as it pertains to an individual who stutters. Your story is powerful in its comparison of past therapy and recent therapy techniques. As a soon-to-be student clinician, you have reminded me that each individual has a story to share, and I can learn as much from the individual as he/she can learn from me (maybe even more!). Having a background in elementary education, I have worked with children before and feel pretty confident in working with this population in the future. However, I have no experience working with adults with communication disorders - including adults who stutter. Considering student clinicians have a limited amount of time with clients (four months, perhaps), what is your advice for developing a strong clinician-adult client relationship quickly? And how much therapy time, in your opinion, is spent on counseling the affective, behavioral, and cognitive aspects of stuttering vs. therapy techniques to "lessen the stutter" in real world situations?