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From: Pam Mertz
Date: 08 Oct 2010
Time: 08:49:29 -0500
Remote Name: 163.153.6.70
I noticed that a previous poster asked question about what if the person who stutters is a doctor. What approach should the SLP take? . . . I am curious about the best approach when a pws attends to routine things like going to a doctor and getting the unsettling responses we often do, but you would hope that you wouldn't get from a medical professional. Two quick examples: recently, I was in a waiting room and the NP asked me, from a distance, what hospital I had had a certain test done. I replied, "Sa-sa-sa-sa" and then the rest of the word and she patronizingly smiled and said it can be confuing to remember names, huh? I was stuttering, not forgetting the name :) Just this week, I saw a doctor and she wasa talking about deep breathing strategies and I told her I was familiar, as, if she hadn't noticed, I stutter. She looked at me and smiled and said, "no, you don't, you have never stuttered with me. You only just did because you brought attention to it". I regretted saying something about stuttering at all, because then it seemed I should have further, but chose not to, as thats not why I was there, and quite frankly, it seemed obvious she didn't understand stuttering. What might I have done differently?