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From: Kevin Eldridge
Date: 05 Oct 2010
Time: 22:54:52 -0500
Remote Name: 71.201.115.194
Pam, You've already gotten comment about VS, so I'm going to pass on that aspect of your post. What caught my attention was that your friend "...shares with me that it is too slow and he feels he is being asked to do things he has already done." Do you think maybe your friend needs to speak to his therapist? It sounds like the SLP is setting the goals, and not your friend. I think that would frustrate me as well. For those of us who have been through a lot of therapy, it is easy to think the SLP is the expert. But in reality, the person who stutters knows WAY MORE about their stuttering than the SLP. My goal as an SLP is to help my clients to help me understand who they are and how their stuttering plays out in their life. The better I understand that, the better I can help them to help themselves. Maybe your friend needs to remember that HE is the expert, HE is the one paying the bill, and therefore HE is the one that should be setting goals (or SHE if that be the case).