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From: Rick
Date: 02 Oct 2006
Time: 23:40:28 -0500
Remote Name: 134.154.252.165
Roger and Janice Ingham of UCSB think that stuttering is bad. Is it okay to believe that stuttering is bad and that it may be actually more helpful to develope stutter free speech from a clinical perspective? It totally makes sense that stuttering modification and fluency shaping should be integrated, but most clinicians still choose one or the other. Also, it is intersting that 90% of SLPs are female and that 75% of stutterers are male. What is the consequence of this uneven ration? The problem is that some SLPs truly do not understand the variability of stuttering (not their fault) and that it is a concern.