My Experiences With Cluttering

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Re: overdiagnosing or misdiagnosing

From: Joseph Dewey
Date: 04 Oct 2005
Time: 13:35:34 -0500
Remote Name: 66.10.108.34

Comments

Hi Melinda. Thanks for the e-mail. This is an interesting research question. My opinion is that overdiagnosis isn't necessarily harmful. For example, I recently read a book called "ADD-Friendly Ways to Organize Your Life." I don't have ADD, but I was interested in it because of the organizational aspects to it. It was one of the best books that I had read, and I learned a lot about organization from it. That kind of excellent book wouldn't be generally available if ADD hadn't been "overdiagnosed." I think it's the same thing with cluttering. I really think that the things I've learned about cluttering can help other people who are more fluent than I am. Things like how to interject more pitch and tone into conversation, how turn taking works in conversation, how to reduce "normal" disfluencies...those are things that could be helpful to everyone, even though they are crucially important for clutterers to learn. Also, I really think that cluttering research is crucial to the Speech Language Pathology profession as a whole. Cluttering is the speech disorder that more people can relate to than any other speech disorder. And, quite frankly, if the Speech Language Pathology profession had an “ADD,” it would generate much needed interest in all areas of the profession, not just in cluttering.


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