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From: Scott Palasik PhD,CCC-SLP
Date: 12 Oct 2011
Time: 20:02:17 -0500
Remote Name: 131.95.172.29
This is a great question and an important to the psychology of stuttering as a disorder. The construct of suicide ideation (thoughts) maybe a more common part of this disorder than we think, however we don't know because it is challenging to study this. In the stuttering course I teach, I do share with the students that some client in their teens and adulthood may express thoughts of suicide which they relate to stuttering. We discuss that as much as this can be a part of treating people who stutter, clinicians need to be aware of their comfort level with this depth of counseling. I would love to do a study on this phenomena someday and there are many challenges to getting approval for this type of research. This I know, as a person who stutters and clinician, I would not be here today if there weren't speech-language pathologists out there who were patient enough to just listen to my thoughts, without judgment or advice. Just listen...