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From: Grant Meredith
Date: 05 Oct 2009
Time: 18:33:44 -0500
Remote Name: 141.132.193.1
Hello Brooke, thank you for the reply and questions. If a student were to go to a disabilities office for assistance then at least a generic approach for help would be offered and usually looked at a case-by-case basis. Discussional evidence that I have gathered from disability liaison officers suggests that they have little or no training to do specifically with stuttering, that there were rarely any formal structures in place specifically for the assessment and teaching of students who stutter and that that students who stutter rarely (if at all) present themselves for help. In terms of assessment most options offered lend themselves directly to speech avoidance techniques which we know go against some forms of treatment and recovery. The on-campus experience of support would of course be much richer than that of the Internet. But basically the Internet replicates already existing information that is freely available through other forms of media. All aspects need to be covered. Including the labelling of disability. I have mentioned in a previous post that I am finding that students who stutter are generally rejecting being labelled as disabled and thus not asking disability services for help.