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From: Ryan Pollard
Date: 06 Oct 2012
Time: 19:39:15 -0500
Remote Name: 69.116.220.90
I appreciate your comments, Dick. I’ve enjoyed reading your thoughts on this issue and others that you’ve posted to the SIG-4 listserv recently. Some of them I’ve even shared with my fluency disorders class! I agree with you when you say that merely having a problem does not always equate to being ready/able/prepared to undergo the long haul of solving it (or, alternatively, making peace with it). Based on your appraisal of the frequent unpreparedness or disinclination of clients to “do what it takes,” I have to ask: what is your opinion of treating school-age and adolescent clients? Readiness for change and willingness to undertake the hard, challenging work required are rather mature qualities that many children and adolescents don’t yet possess. Perhaps this isn’t quite as relevant for those clients due to their relatively brief experience with stuttering (i.e., it’s not so much “a long-standing engrained behavior” for them)?