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From: Ed Feuer
Date: 06 Oct 2009
Time: 10:19:20 -0500
Remote Name: 142.161.149.254
Dr. Lavid: Still sounds rather more distant and "referral away" than what I'm talking about but correct me if I'm wrong. What I would like to see is a closer, more immediate, more "nuts-and-bolts" collaboration with SLPs. It would mean first of all that the psychiatrist and psychologist members of the treatment team would need be familiar with what the SLP is trying to achieve. (Have you read Charles Van Riper's "The Treatment of Stuttering"?) Specifically, if the client runs into difficulties during the motivation, identification, desensitization, modification or stabilization phases, the SLP would bring in the member or members of the team with relevant expertise, in this case the psychiatrist or psychologist to help the client overcome particular hurdles. Do you, Dr. Lavid, regard the above as viable? (And to those scoffing SLPs who say this guy's dreaming in Technicolor, I say you have nothing better -- and furthermore, you know that, although some of the bill-payers might not.)