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From: Ed Feuer
Date: 10/12/02
Time: 12:33:44 AM
Remote Name: 142.161.128.92
As someone who has come to believe in a collaborative team approach to treatment, I am hearted by your advocacy of multidisciplinary interaction.
The expertise required in research and treatment is more than SLPs alone possess. In the research area, it would be highly beneficial to see people who traditionally do not deal with stuttering talk with people who do.
In the treatment area, I advocate a collaborative team approach. For a brief summary of my ideas about this concept, see http://www.mankato.msus.edu/dept/comdis/kuster/TherapyWWW/In2025.html
Perhaps one way of getting multidisciplinary interaction off the ground in treatment would be joint practicums with stuttering clients for grad students from the areas of fluency disorders, psychology and counselling. This would, of course, involve the supervising profs from the three areas getting together and creating new modalities and "divisions of labour" according to the individual needs of the client.
I would hope that a new generation of progressive doctoral students would not be stopped by the traditional professional jealousies that have heretofore been the major impediment to such progressive developments.