Simplifying Stuttering Therapy in a School Setting

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Re: Teacher Involvement

From: Chris Mata
Date: 11 Oct 2009
Time: 19:58:47 -0500
Remote Name: 71.220.176.118

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Hi Dick, I am a speech pathologist working in an elelmentary school in Idaho. I appreciated your article and am excited to implement your suggestions in my practice. I have a fifth grade student who is a severe stutter. I would love to use your approach with this young man, however, the classroom teacher is incredibly resistant to working with special education in general, let alone the SLP. He views my services as an intrusion into his classroom and expects that I will use my therapy time for doing the classwork the student is missing by coming to speech. Do you have any suggestions for working with a teacher like this? Additionally, the student's parents are not interested in assisting him at home and have made that clear. I am sure that the approach you have described in your article would be wonderfully effective for the student in the classroom. Thank you for any assistance you can offer me. Chris


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