[ Contents | Search | Next | Previous | Up ]
From: Derek Taylor
Date: 17 Oct 2012
Time: 11:58:10 -0500
Remote Name: 98.94.201.224
What makes therapy successful is a great question. I am a PWS and a graduate student in speech-langauge patholgy. I recieved treatment from a SLP who stuttered and believe that the client-clinician relationship is am important element to good therapy. I too, remeber the felling of meeting a therapist who stutters and thinking, "finally someone who knows what it feels like..if it worked for them..maybe it can work for me". As a student in SLP and wanting to working with PWS, I can not assume the every person who stutters experiances are the same, but I can truly be emapthic with their thoughts and fellings related to stuttering. The student clinician at UNCG did not know what she is talking about. There is no reason for a PWS not to treat stuttering. It is quite the opposite PWS are the experts on stuttering. No college degree or fluency training can prepare the person who does not stutter, to know what it is like to be a PWS. The field of stuttering and speech and langauge pathology was pioneered by people who stutter and there are currently many professionals in the field of stuttering who themselves stutter. Freedom is the ability to say what you want when you want; and I believe you are there! Mainain the commitment to your dreams.