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From: Retz
Date: 16 Oct 2010
Time: 13:07:24 -0500
Remote Name: 205.213.113.52
Interesting thread. Given that ASHA has forgotten and no longer cares how/why the field of speech and language came into existence, refuses to listen to current experts in stuttering regarding the travesty, no longer gives any thought to the ethics of not requiring those who it licenses to have to take actual course work and clinical practicums in preparing to work with clients who stutter, and, in fact, grants it CCC's, as well as protects, those who are not prepared in any manner, shape or form to treat stuttering in the public school, hospital, and private clinic settings, it is my feeling that the field will ONLY change after a extremely wealthy parent of a child who stutters initiates, pursues, and wins a judgment of an extreme amount of money against a unprepared ASHA certified school based speech and language pathologist and that pathologists employing school district for the damage done to their child who stutters in "therapy". This, of course, is only my own opinion.