Use of telehealth technology in the delivery of treatment at the Institute for Stuttering Treatment and Research

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From: Ed Feuer
Date: 14 Oct 2010
Time: 00:47:04 -0500
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What you describe is remote access to a clinic room, as if that were all that's needed in the treatment of stuttering. Getting someone relaxed in the artificial environment of a clinic room or tele-clinic room by reducing communicative stress to do some "technique" there is really the equivalent of a parlour trick. The missing crucial element in what passes for stuttering therapy today is systematic, in vivo, real-world desensitization. Van Riper was right. It is labour intensive, demands specific expertise and is not given to quickie fixes. Not if outcomes include long-term efficacy. — edfeuer@mts.net


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