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From: Lynne Shields
Date: 22 Oct 2009
Time: 20:51:16 -0500
Remote Name: 68.188.68.2
Pam, When an adult visits me for the first time for therapy, I don't automatically collect a speech sample to analyze for frequency or severity of the overt stuttering. As you suggest, I think it is important to find out the issues and concerns that are important to the client. If it turns out that reduction of overt stuttering is one of the person's goals, then obtaining samples to evaluate stuttering severity and frequency at some point can be helpful, but I don't see it as essential, or even necessarily beneficial, at the beginning of treatment. In your own case, were you not covert when you began attending therapy? In that case, I'm not sure what a clinician would be measuring early on! Thanks for all of your good questions and comments. Regards, Lynne