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From: Walt Manning
Date: 05 Oct 2011
Time: 17:27:58 -0500
Remote Name: 141.225.97.156
It is true that many of the basic aspect of treatment protocols that were developed decades ago are still being used. But the protocols are being refined and these methods are used in combination with other approaches from fields such as counsling. For example, information and ideas about the common factors that are effective across many treatments and ways to predict changes in cognitive and coping aspects of stuttering are resulting in long term success following treatment. Quality of life issues broaden the scope and impact of therapy. Progress is slow, for as Scott commented, the process is reasonably complex and takes effort and time, both on the part of speaker and the clinician. The field of psychology is still using many "older" approaches but is developing somewhat faster than our area of speech-language pathology. But there are MANY more people working on many more problems in psychology than there are in fluency disorders. That's why using concepts and ideas that have been researched and found to be effective in areas of psychology is a good ieda.