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From: Vince Vawter
Date: 18 Oct 2011
Time: 20:53:55 -0500
Remote Name: 67.187.126.12
The lack of psychological counseling is my biggest complaint about speech therapy. It's been my experience that most clinicians want to treat the stutter and not the person. They want to treat a part of the person and not the whole person. This is why I continue to use the word "holistic" when talking about speech therapy. I know I am painting with a broad brush here, and I haven't been in clinical therapy since the late 1980s. I also realize that counseling is a whole new ball game, and can send a clinician and client down strange paths, but I think it has to happen at some level. People who stutter, whether they will admit it or not, continue to wonder "why?" or "what's wrong?" This is especially true in adolescents. I think a good clinician must also be a caring counselor. Working with a person who stutters is tough, but if it was easy, anybody could do it.