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From: Cristóbal
Date: 10 Oct 2009
Time: 04:53:09 -0500
Remote Name: 80.58.205.44
Of course a speech-language pathologist (SLP) can help stuttering. Many people -not only proffesionals- can help stuttering, as for example, a normal person who listens carefully and is patient with the stutterer. The problem is that SLPīs receive money and the normal person doesnīt. SLPīs and stuttering researchers will never be able to transform REALLY the stuttering speech pattern. They can make some changes, but never substantial and permanent changes because stuttering has taken roots in the stuttererīs mind. The stutterer brain is totally different, is made of a different stuff, all of it, the whole mind. Like left-handed. Stutterers mind is inamovible. SLP makes real some changes, but never change the stuttering roots, which constitute a different brain (see PET tomographies). SLPs donīt have effective treatments, as this study demonstrate: http://www.juntadeandalucia.es/salud/servicios/contenidos/aetsa/pdf/Executive%20SummaryTartamudez_def.pdf SLPīs sell fluency and that is a very important merchandise for stutterers. They pay all they have to get that merchandise. So because, never promise what you can never really offer: fluency. Thanks for your interest Cris