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From: Amy Locy
Date: 20 Oct 2011
Time: 22:37:48 -0500
Remote Name: 97.83.178.41
I think that your article gives a great insight into how it’s so important to realize the goal of speech therapy should be to improve communication during daily life, not just in a therapy room. You also make a great analogy of a coach-athlete type of a model between the therapist and the person who stutters. There are tools that a therapist can offer to help improve communication effectiveness but ultimately you know yourself best, and you need to be the one to take initiative to work at it on a day to day basis. Although seeing a “professional” SLP to help access and update these tools may be an important part of the process, the most important part is that you are able to become the most in tune what works for you and keep improving that daily!