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From: Mark Irwin
Date: 21 Oct 2011
Time: 23:18:42 -0500
Remote Name: 118.210.58.3
As a consumer attendee at the NSA Research Symposium I was delighted to see the emergence of the recognition for closer liaison of SLPs with the psychology and psychiatric professions. It seems though one of the barriers to this is the delineation between what is stuttering (to be treated by SLPs) and what is social anxiety disorder (to be treated by psychologists). My understanding of the research is that between 75% (Stein, Baird, Walker 1996) and 60% (Menzies 2008) of adults who stutter seeking therapy have diagnosable Social Anxiety Disorder. This fact is clearly disputed by some therapists (one of whom stormed out of my NSA presentation while another argued it was his experience that only 2% of pws clients ever had SAD.) May I ask what differential diagnostic tool is used by members of the panel to screen for SAD in their clients? (This question is obviously also relevant to the behaviourist vs cognitivist debate as to the better therapeutic approach.)