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Date: 20 Oct 2012
Time: 16:13:23 -0500
Remote Name: 66.190.8.224
I learned a very common perspective on stuttering therapy in school-age children through reading this article. I can agree through observing speech language pathologists (SLPs) in my undergrad that many of them are stuck in therapy strategies that either work or not and they don’t always take time to bring the child’s life goals and everyday struggles into treatment. I have not had personal experience in treating a child who stutters and I am currently learning about fluency in my graduate class. I can assume that many SLPs feel they don’t have the proper education and skills to treat a child who stutters which is why this “burden” is caused. The education and skills of stuttering aren’t clearly laid out compared to articulation for example, which is why you need to be optimistic, excited, and willing to have constant trials and errors of therapy techniques with your client. Thank you for sharing this article and I now feel more comfortable to inspire hope in my clients and not always look at decreasing disfluency as the only goal in therapy.