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From: Cindy Spillers
Date: 23 Oct 2006
Time: 15:01:54 -0500
Remote Name: 131.212.90.190
Thanks for your questions, Kimberly. I don't think we can gather information about spirituality or religion in the same systematic way that we gather other background information during a diagnostic evaluation. Leaving religion out of the picture for now, spirituality is the individual's understanding of where they came from, why the are here, and where they are going. If a person holds to a religious belief system, that religion will inform their answers to those questions. People without a religious belief system will still have answers to those questions. A client's answers to questions such as "why do you think you stutter?" as well as their comments about their feelings toward their stuttering and how they see their stuttering fitting into the grand scheme of their lives, will give clinician's insight into the client's spiritual beliefs, regardless of if those beliefs are tied to a particular religion.