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Date: 12 Oct 2005
Time: 14:28:57 -0500
Remote Name: 142.161.180.182
John, Thank you for your reply but I'm sorry other accredited SLPs didn't see fit to respond because the issue is legitimate and serious. I submit that scientifically valid research into stuttering demands the use of differentiated subjects. Ultimately, there is no substitute. While recruiting differentiated subjects is difficult in small university towns, such is not the case in large metropolitan centres if researchers put forth the effort. In the world of publish or perish . . . anything, it is so much easier to use generic "stutterers" and then claim the results fit all "stutterers" -- especially if peer reviewers in the academic journals co-operate as they have. I submit that we who stutter have been ill-served by such "research". — Ed Feuer edfeuer@mts.net