The Experience of People Who Stutter: A Survey by the NSA

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the teasing aspect of stuttering

From: Amanda Feingold- NYU graduate student
Date: 14 Oct 2009
Time: 16:20:26 -0500
Remote Name: 69.201.144.232

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Who’s job do you feel it is to make a child who stutter’s peers and superiors aware of stuttering and how do you feel it is appropriate to discuss these issues within a school setting? Should a school counselor be responsible, a parent, the classroom teacher, or maybe an SLP. I understand that many kids deal with teasing about many uncontrollable things in their lives but I feel if we work together to make more individuals aware of the fact that people are different it would only lead to progress. Also, after going through your graphs on successful treatment outcomes, I am curious as to why within many school districts, in which children are receiving therapy for stuttering, treatments like Lidcombe, which seem to me completely impractical or bennifical, would be the only treatment option available? Wouldn't it be more efficacious for therapists to have to use a more affective, behavioral, and cognitive approach towards communication?


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