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From: Lisa LaSalle
Date: 21 Oct 2012
Time: 12:56:14 -0500
Remote Name: 96.251.126.134
You asked, "What would happen if most PWS (some of the time), their parents and institutional bill-payers read The Treatment of Stuttering, the highly accessible classic by Charles Van Riper?" PWS would learn a lot about Van Riper's take on the problem in 1978. Many of the suggestions may even work for them. But it is not a self-help book, is it? If parents of CWS read it, they would learn some, but re: young children who stutter, there is much more known about risk factors, since 1978, such as from the Illinois project, etc. Institutional bill-payers would likely not read such a text, even if required - don't they make requirements of us? And even if they did read it, again a lot has changed since that time, even tho I agree with the spirit of your question, that much can be learned from it. I will leave it to others on here, to answer the rest of your questions: "What if they were to compare the ideal in stuttering therapy philosophy and the much, much less than that ideal in what usually passes for stuttering therapy these days? What if they were appalled by the difference? What if, as a result of their new knowledge, they became much more demanding? Could the profession cope?" It seems as though you have posed a set of rhetorical questions, and you think there is a problem with "what passes for stuttering therapy these days." So please share what you would like to express.