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From: Ed Feuer
Date: 18 Oct 2011
Time: 22:54:05 -0500
Remote Name: 207.161.157.111
Lynne, I think you’ve hit the nail on the head when you say that "SLPs may not address these important aspects of therapy relate to the nature of their training (focusing on techniques) or lack of training in the area of fluency disorders." That being the case, it is high time they put professional jealousies aside and recruit experts from outside experts in such areas as interpersonal communication, assertive training, and acting and drama to work together as needed with the stuttering client as part of a multidisciplinary team within the parameters of the speech therapy model. That would help acknowledge in practice as well as theory that stuttering is not only a speech impediment but a life impediment and must be treated accordingly. By the way, I will know that my advocacy of a multidisciplinary team approach for treatment is gaining traction when SLPs start claiming it was their idea all along. — Ed edfeuer@mts.net