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From: Jill Douglass
Date: 07 Oct 2012
Time: 14:24:37 -0500
Remote Name: 130.123.104.22
Hi Rachael, Thank you for including me on your thoughts. Are you working in the school system? This can be frustrating; I came across this predicament during my CFY year working in a University hospital. Thankfully, I have learned the power of a holistic evaluation and assessment. One article that may interest you is: Yaruss, S. (2010). Evaluating and treating the school-age child who stutters. Seminars in Speech and Language, 31(4), 263-271. If approval for services is based on stuttering behaviours, then yes, the children who mildly stutter or covertly stutter will, more than likely, not be approved. If approval for services is based on the impact stuttering has on the client’s life, descriptors of the type of covert or compensatory behaviours, and evidence in research documenting that stuttering is more than behaviour then isn’t that evidence based practice? Let me know what you think of the article by Yaruss (2010). –Jill