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From: Jim McClure
Date: 19 Oct 2009
Time: 20:35:26 -0500
Remote Name: 71.228.102.188
I'm pleasantly surprised that the success rate for school speech therapy was that high. A 2007 survey of school clinicians by Glen Tellis found that most SLPs lacked basic skills in assessing and treating stuttering. (Tellis, G, Bressler, L., Emerick, K. (2008). An exploration of clinician views about assessment and treatment of stuttering. Perspectives on Fluency and Fluency Disorders, 18 (1): 16-23.) This suggests that the odds are not good that a child who stutters will encounter a school clinician who has adequate experience and current knowledge in fluency. A few school districts bring in fluency specialists as consultants. I always advise parents to have their children evaluated by a board recognized specialist rather than relying solely on the school SLP.