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From: Katie Tamagno
Date: 08 Oct 2012
Time: 21:39:56 -0500
Remote Name: 24.246.130.98
Thanks for a great article! I am a CSD grad student and am attending a different university then where I fulfilled my prerequisites for the program. Therefore, I’ve had two different professors for fluency. The first was pessimistic about the prospect of working with individuals who stutter and I was scared and nervous about having clinic with a fluency client. The second professor is completely opposite: optimistic, excited, and most importantly, hopeful. This professor’s viewpoint has had such an effect on my outlook of working with individuals who stutter. I know that at this point I do not have the full training that I need by any means but simply feeling optimistic and hopeful about treatment has really changed my attitude on working with those who stutter. Having once been in my shoes as an inexperienced and aspiring SLP, do either of you have one piece of advice that you wish you had known before working with your first fluency client?