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Re: Lidcombe programme

From: Richard Mallard
Date: 06 Oct 2012
Time: 21:29:33 -0500
Remote Name: 76.17.183.48

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Jennifer, you ask a good question. Let me suggest to you that speech therapy programs do not "work." There is nothing we can do in speech-language pathology that can effect change in a client independent of the client putting into practice what is taught. For example, the "therapy" that a dentist does "works" because the dentist does the work and the patient is passive. The same can be said of other professions as well. This is not the case in speech-language pathology. We cannot fix anything; we can only instruct. You would be wise to always view with suspicion behavioral programs that others claim "work."


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