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From: Lou Heite
Date: 10/12/00
Time: 7:16:03 PM
Remote Name: 155.247.228.151
Hello, Tina.
You're welcome!
I am sure you will be sensitive to stuttering when you become a SLP. Judy won't let you graduate if you're not! ;-)
Seriously, the big issue that seems to be looming is the status of stuttering under the IEP process. There are many who argue that school slp's should only treat disorders that impact on a child's school performance. There is a lot of pressure for SLP's to take over literacy issues that used to be the province of reading teachers, and the kids who stutter and those who have fairly straightforward articulation problems are the ones who are going to be shafted if the profession is not careful. It will be important to be able to explain to skeptical school authorities the whole spectrum of behaviors that can be affected by stuttering, in order to be sure that these kids get therapy in school. There is a longish article in the current ASHA Leader about the IEP process that ought to give pause to anyone who treats kids who stutter in schools, or who expects to.
As far as the graphics are concerned, in another life long ago and far away, I was a graphic artist. The charts were constructed by hand in a commercial art program called "Freehand" from data that I analysed in SPSS. SPSS does excellent numbers but makes really ugly graphics!
Regards,
Lou Heite