Changing Attitudes in Children Who Stutter

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Changing Attitudes in Children & Teens by Educating Families

From: LaToya Roberts, Southern University
Date: 08 Oct 2009
Time: 22:37:27 -0500
Remote Name: 24.248.9.246

Comments

Ms. Diane Games, I have enjoyed reading your article " Changing Attitudes in Children & Teens". I do believe that attitudes are a very important factor during any type of therapeutic intervenion. As a graduate student, I've recently began to study developmental and environmental factors that affect the attitudes of children which includes: demands and capacities, diagnosogenic theory, communicative failure and anticipatory struggles. In these factors the parents or primary caregiver has either mislabeled the child,has placed many demands on him or her while giving little support, or has pressured the child to conform to standards beyond his or her reach. In conclusion I agree that changing attitudes should involve those around them. In many cases it begins with the parents, primary caregiver, and siblings. I believe all therapy should include family-child interaction patterns to be used in therapy and at home. As a future Speech-Language Pathologist I hope to educate families, counsel them, and modify their interaction patterns.


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