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From: Melissa Crist
Date: 10/7/02
Time: 2:28:37 PM
Remote Name: 152.163.188.193
Bob,
I must say that I thoroughly enjoyed your article. I feel pity for the people out there who are supposedly educated and trained SLPs but who continue to feel the way this anonymous author feels. (I hope they are few and far between!)
Anyway, I read in your follow up on “good” therapy, that in college you were in therapy because you wanted to be there, you were ready to change, and you could take advantage of therapy that addressed stuttering at multiple levels and not just in terms of fluency. Do you feel that an adult stutterer must be in this frame of mind before therapy is going to be successful (not only in terms of fluency but as acceptance of self, etc….)?
And one other question – I can totally understand why a person who stutters would choose an SLP who stutters because of the common understandings that they might share. What advice would you give to a future SLP, who “gets it” but does not stutter, about relating to a stutterer, because we will never “really know” what they are going through? I can only imagine what it feels like to stutter.
Thanks for the great article,
Melissa Crist