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Re: The "Fear" of Treating People Who Stutter

From: Bernie Weiner
Date: 10/3/03
Time: 4:05:03 PM
Remote Name: 152.163.252.163

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Ken, Thank you so much for taking the time to post such a great reply to my question. Naturally, being a person who stutters, I am somewhat disheartend by the results of the studies. But, I also know that in recent years, treatment of stuttering has become more enlightened. By educating both the public and the future SLPs, it's getting better. I also think it's up to people who stutter to take the iniative and talk at colleges to the fluency classes and try to take away some of the "fear" of people who stutter. When I talk to a class of future SLPs at a college, I always tell them not to feel they have failed if their clients don't seem to do well in therapy. I tell them that something always "sticks" even if they don't think so. Thanks for caring so much for people who stutter.


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