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Re: Various concepts

From: John Kagie
Date: 18 Oct 2005
Time: 11:52:04 -0500
Remote Name: 217.169.227.232

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Walt: Thank you for your response. You do not find the concept useful from a clinical perspective and I would like to understand better why that is. If the concept is correct, the therapist has to use psychological techniques to treat the secondary symptoms and speech techniques to compensate for the effect of the neurological cause. Would not differentiating between the two categories of symptoms not mean a risk of using the wrong tool for the wrong job? I put the same question on STUTT-L some days ago and received mixed reactions. Some support the concept, some find it outdated. Some people argued against the learning theory with reasonable arguments. How valid would you say this learning theory is nowadays? Please understand I am not propagating this concept. I am just looking for a generally accepted concept as a basis for a stuttering association to stimulate the development of effective therapies. Writing this I realise that this may sound very ambitious. :) Which concept would you suggest? Looking forward to your response.


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