What Marty Jezer Taught Me About Counseling People Who Stutter

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Re: SLPs role in counseling clients

From: Lisa V.
Date: 19 Oct 2009
Time: 12:31:00 -0500
Remote Name: 216.114.254.30

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Michelle, I do think counseling will be a large part of my future career. Speech-language pathologists work with clients whose disorders/disabilities cause lifestyle changes that are difficult to accept. For example, the patient with dysphagia who can no longer eat his favorite foods, the client with aphasia who can no longer live alone, the parent whose child has just been diagnosed with autism, the parent who has to decide if his or her child should receive cochlear implants, the client with ALS who can no longer speak to tell his kids he loves them, the list goes on and on. It would be hard NOT to address these kinds of changes in clients I see. Lisa


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