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From: Ed Feuer
Date: 17 Oct 2012
Time: 11:28:37 -0500
Remote Name: 207.161.157.111
Gregory, I'm talking about a coordinated approach. The problem is that while qualified SLPs know much about stuttering, they lack the therapeutic tools. While experts from other fields possess the therapeutic tools, they know very little about stuttering. In a coordinated multidisciplinary team approach, the SLP would recruit these outside experts with the needed therapeutic tools to help individual stuttering clients overcome specific hurdles and problems in speech therapy. But the outside experts would absolutely need to accept the speech therapy model so there could be ongoing active collaboration as needed. Otherwise, these other people would be trying to reinvent the wheel in stuttering therapy which makes no sense, but that is exactly what occurs now when SLPs simply refer tough cases AWAY. Does the coordinated approach I favour happen at the Czech clinic? — Ed Feuer edfeuer@mts.net