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Re: Therapy Approaches

From: Charlie Osborne
Date: 07 Oct 2006
Time: 11:16:08 -0500
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Gary I concur with your response regarding a "favorite" approach. I know that for me, personally, I have moved from using an approach or "the approach,” as a novice clinician, to gradually developing how I approach helping individuals with stuttering problems. As a beginning clinician I was uncertain as to how to do therapy or what to do in therapy and the structured confines of an approach helped me determine where to go and what to do. With the experience of working with different individuals and helping them learn to cope with stuttering problems, I not only learned about how to use the variety of tools available (stuttering modification and/or fluency shaping), I began to discover who I was as a clinician and how I related with clients in the therapy process. The process of self-discovery, paired with the constant learning from the clients you are helping, allows you to develop your own clinical skills. As you develop as a fluency clinician you will learn how to be attentive to each of your client’s needs and to respond to each of them accordingly. Debra, it is a challenging endeavor to undertake, learning to be an effective fluency clinician, but it can be one of the most rewarding that an SLP can experience!


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