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From: Judy Kuster
Date: 07 Oct 2005
Time: 08:42:45 -0500
Remote Name: 65.25.213.94
Sarah, any medical doctor can prescribe meds, including the individual's doctor that s/he sees for other things. If I were referring a client, I would look for a doctor who understands stuttering and the role speech therapy plays. I would try to find a doctor like Nathan Lavid, who has written an excellent article about some of the meds used with people who stutter. You might be interested in taking a look at his paper from this year's conference. He wrote another paper a few years ago entitled The relevance of speech therapy: A physician's viewpoint from a clinical and neuroscience perspective (check on http://www.mnsu.edu/comdis/isad5/isadcon5.html Judy Kuster