From: Lakeisha Joseph (Southern University Grad Student in Speech-Language Pathology)
Date: 21 Oct 2012
Time: 09:08:55 -0500
Remote Name: 68.96.147.133
If I have a teenage client and the parent's main concern is "language." During a conversation I listen to the client and there isn't really a problem with language. What is observed is that the client has dysfluencies associated with stuttering, some being normal dysfluencies. The client exhibits many associated behaviors, but to me the clinician, the client was fluent due to much effort. While administering the SSI-4 the client was mostly fluent. Should I also count the stuttering behaviors that lead to the client being fluent and is he considered a stutterer because he exhibits the neurological components of a stutterer?