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From: Ed Feuer
Date: 15 Oct 2010
Time: 12:36:20 -0500
Remote Name: 142.161.167.81
Ken, it's not a case of not being argumentative for the sake of being argumentative. There are serious problems, major deficiencies, and I just don't see your profession dealing with them. I will dredge up my laundry list here for those who don't know: clinic-room fraud; token therapy; short-term quickie fixes; distractor devices and some SLPs peddling these devices; the false hope of the pink pill; flawed research methodology in which subjects are not differentiated according to severity, age, gender, overt, covert, before or after intensive treatment; school boards paying SLPs unqualified to treat kids who stutter; and other SLPs not blowing the whistle in such situations; ASHA not enforcing standards; no stuttering-dedicated ASHA ombudsman; no independent third-party assessment of therapeutic efficacy; and the absence of genuine coordinated multidisciplinary interaction for the treatment, repeat, for the treatment, of stuttering. So, Ken, Walt, Ellen-Marie, Kevin and other profs: What is the profession doing to remedy the above? Remember, folks, dirty laundry that is not washed in public is laundry likely to stay dirty. And while I'm not from Missouri, the "show me" state, I'm in Manitoba which is north of Missouri. Show me. edfeuer@mts.net