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From: Ed Feuer
Date: 10 Oct 2012
Time: 13:15:32 -0500
Remote Name: 207.161.157.111
Ken, Glad to hear you'd welcome a clinical psychology student specializing in desensitization taking only fluency disorders courses pertaining to stuttering. I wonder whether the other profs here would do the same without turf-protection red flags and alarm bells deterring them. And since you see the value in such a person, I encourage you to call a counterpart in your school's psychology department to enlist his or her aid in recruiting such an individual. While you're on the phone, raise the idea of joint practicums between the departments to help PWS (some of the time). The desensitization component in stuttering therapy is sorely lacking. But the template has been there for decades notwithstanding all attempts to reinvent the wheel and put old wine in new bottles. I invite the profs to take Van Riper's The Treatment of Stuttering off their bookshelves and re-read his chapter on Desensitization, pages 267-300. Nobody does the full regimen of what is described there, bar none. Problem is, doing it properly is labour intensive, time intensive and knowledge intensive. But that is what is needed. And Ari, never stop the digging. — Ed Feuer edfeuer@mts.net