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From: Joseph Dewey
Date: 05 Oct 2005
Time: 00:01:08 -0500
Remote Name: 24.10.184.104
Hi Kristin. I'm glad that you liked the article. Actually, the SLP was really nice. She just played the tape and pointed out stuff. The really jarring thing was mostly internal. I don't think she realized how unaware I was of my own speech. If she would have realized that, it would have been easier, I think, because then she could have helped me deal with how traumatic it was for me. Daly talks a lot about keeping the clutterer in treatment. He says that a lot of parents will want to take their children out early. For me, it would have been very helpful for the SLP to continually reinforce that I needed treatment. I left each session wondering if I was cured or not. Looking back on it, the speech therapy I went through taught me a lot of preparatory things, but I didn't have enough to make any lasting, permanent changes during that time. So, I think that SLP's should encourage both parents and themselves to keep clutterers in therapy. Cluttering is really tricky, because it often "disappears" during therapy, so that might also greatly contribute to not encouraging the client to come back.