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From: Scott Palasik
Date: 02 Oct 2010
Time: 09:34:47 -0500
Remote Name: 68.63.221.248
Dick, I would like to thank you for your words and more importantly thank you for your passion with helping children who stutter and their families. You also made a great point that stuttering goes beyond what the mouth is doing (it is not just a physical disorder). Amen! What is one piece of advice I would give clinicians who work with parents (of not only stuttering, all disorders)?...Learn to listen...Learn to step outside of our egos of needing to "fix" people (yes I said "ego" because that is really what our needs to "fix" come from). People are not cars, people are millions of thoughts of happiness and sadness, fear and content, anger and joy. Lastly, like Kelly Wilson says (Contextual Psychologist at Ole Miss) "Do you look at a client as a math problem or Sunset?"... The answer, all people are sunsets, we much appreciate what parents and clients come with, the good parts and the challenges. Acceptance of the person brings compassion for them which can lead to openness and flexibility in our practice of trying to help...These are just some thoughts of mine that I've found and gathered from others in the field of psychology and stuttering disorders. Again, thank you for being a part of this field Dick. Feel free to drop me a line with stories of success with yourself and your clients: scott.palasik@usm.edu Scott