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From: Nan
Date: 05 Oct 2009
Time: 16:56:41 -0500
Remote Name: 129.2.25.203
I could not agree MORE that PWS need to be involved in training and educating SLPs - in my class at Maryland, we always have the local NSA members and past clients come for a full class time to meet with and chat with our graduate students for a very lively give-and-take. But the problem getting SLPs in training to interact with PWS can be more insidious - in programs where no faculty member is very involved with stuttering, which some of us judge to be about half of the graduate programs out there, there probably won't be many folks in the University clinic who stutter, either, or ties to the local NSA, thus depressing students' opportunities to learn further. That is, when you have faculty who are involved with stuttering, it tends to attract PWS to the clinic, to course activities, etc., but when you don't, it is a lose-lose situation all around.