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From: A burden/challenge in our field
Date: 20 Oct 2012
Time: 18:03:00 -0500
Remote Name: 12.31.183.186
Hi! As a speech therapy graduate student, this article was surprising to me because I always thought that as SLPs, we are suppose to look at the child through a broader wholistic view than just make the child a more fluent speaker. I never realized that this was a challenge/burden in our field. I always assumed with stuttering and any communication disorder, that you first have to look at the child as a whole person who is part of an enviroment and who has to deal with issues of life, whether it be teasing, pressure and what not from their own personal environments and stanpoints, I never knew that this was the prevalent attitude that still lingers within our profession today. I always had the attitude of looking at the patient as a whole is what we as SLPs "are suppose to do" or already should know that that is part of what we do as SLPs.