The Prof is In

[ Contents | Search | Next | Previous | Up ]


Re: Stuttering Spring — when?

From: Jean Sawyer
Date: 21 Oct 2011
Time: 09:25:13 -0500
Remote Name: 50.44.64.19

Comments

Dear Ed, I like to teach my students to be good thinkers and problem solvers. I tell them that I sometimes hear from people at conferences that some SLPs feel "afraid" to treat stuttering. I tell my students that that is something I don't ever want to hear about them, even if they haven't had much experience treating stuttering. I have 4 goals for my students 1) to become more personally involved with stuttering and people who stutter 2) to assess stuttering effectively (and that means the entire disorder, not the behavioral features), 3) to treat stuttering effectively, and 4) to know where to go for answers to their questions. I invite people who stutter and SLPs who stutter to my classroom, and have the student work on a stuttering awareness project, which has included some of the "outside the box" issues you speak of. I try to help the students build critical thinking skills and help them feel comfortable treating people who stutter across the lifespan.


Last changed: 10/22/11