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From: Pam Mertz
Date: 05 Oct 2009
Time: 11:26:43 -0500
Remote Name: 163.153.6.70
I actually uinderstood most of this article, which is a testament to the authors that it was not so technically top-heavy that an "average joe" (me!) couldn't understand it. I am a pewrson who stutters, and have been participating in therapy for about 3 years. Prior to that, I was covert and in denial for over 30 years. I am happy to see that one of the conclusions of this paper was that over the last 10 years, while more is understood about how stuttering affects the whole person, much more still needs to be done to help people who don't stutter understand how best to help us. It is also good to see the reference to the fasct that many SLPs just don't know enough about stuttering and fluency. I am in a very fortunate position to be asked frequently to co-present to SLP students and to SLP professionals about what it is like living the stuttering experience. As a matter of fact, I am helping to co-facilitate a 6 hr CEU event for SLP's at the end of this month. I think that is one of the most important things I have read over the years - the partnership between professionals and those of us who stutter, thats how we can help educate and raise awareness about what we need and how we know when we have met our goals. . . . . . I would like to see a continued marriage of the professions that work with PWS and their families, and the consumers themselves. Do you, the authors, agree that PWS should be involved in training and teaching SLPs about stuttering?