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From: Bobby Childers
Date: 10/13/01
Time: 4:36:42 PM
Remote Name: 216.234.195.87
Andrew:
While I’m not much for videos (you can ask Dr. Leeper and my student clinicians because they video taped many of my therapy sessions), I would agree to be involved in one for training Human Resource managers.
I personally feel that all speech therapy should involve some form of support both during and after therapy. During therapy, the support network helps reinforce the therapy being received and gives the client a “safe” place to try out the various techniques taught. It also gives the client a group of people who understand the feelings associated with stuttering (stammering) so the client does not feel quite “so alone” in the world anymore.
After the therapy is completed, the client would still have a place to go for "refreshers", or just for moral support.
My student clinicians and their faculty supervisor encouraged me to join Stutt-L, which gave me a world of people who had the same type of experiences that I did. The eye-opening experience of being on a listserv with other stutterers and SLP’s was completely astounding, and proved to me that I could succeed in my professional and personal life as many of them have done or are currently doing.
While I may have enlightened one HR department, it was only a grain of sand on a huge beach. I would like to see the NSA and the BSA both develop programs (separately or jointly) to show to HR managers throughout the world. Maybe then we wouldn’t have the stereotypes that currently exist in the corporate world.
Bobby