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From: Charlie Osborne
Date: 07 Oct 2006
Time: 11:47:02 -0500
Remote Name: 67.142.130.38
I have always been a bit mystified that there aren’t more people who have a passion for working with people with stuttering problems. Is it due to the amount of uncertainties regarding the etiology of stuttering, the varied approaches to its treatment, and the wide variety of opinions in our profession regarding appropriate treatment, evidence, etc.? The point has been made elsewhere in this discussion that other areas in speech-language pathology also do not have THE ANSWER to the most effective treatment. Why is it that some of us absolutely love working with stuttering, while others act as though they’ve been exposed to the plague when they have to work with someone who stutters? I have no answers to these questions. As a clinician and an educator, I can only hope that one result of the fluency information and experience (as limited as it may be) a student receives in his/her university education, results in the desire to work with individuals who stutter and to actively pursue further learning about stuttering.