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From: Ed Feuer
Date: 16 Oct 2010
Time: 23:48:39 -0500
Remote Name: 142.161.189.102
I am heartened by the responses of Vivian and Retz. Now, Nan, you say, "To think that everyone in our field should be best qualified to treat stuttering is a delusion." If that is indeed the case, why should anyone in your field who is not qualified to treat stuttering doing so? Why is that tolerated by ASHA? Why do other SLPs who know what is happened not blow the whistle on these people to ASHA and the institutional bill-payers? You say, "We don't think so for diabetes, for cancer, or for heart disease - we go to specialists." First of all, Nan, even within the parameters of the ASHA establishment party line, comparatively few of these "specialists" are available for most people who stutter. Secondly, for the diseases you cite, treatment usually involves multidisciplinary teamwork because even the specialists lack both the necessary time and knowledge to do it all. I wish members of your profession would finally acknowledge this. That would mean putting the needs of stuttering clients first in place of the fear that the whole edifice could collapse. edfeuer@mts.net