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From: Woody
Date: 10/10/00
Time: 5:20:54 AM
Remote Name: 155.247.229.162
To answer first your question about how we determine what we are qualified to work with, it is simple a matter of how we were trained. My students, for example, are well trained to work on the psychological aspects of stuttering as well as on speech motor aspects. But if a SLP were trained only in fluency shaping, or some other of the control therapies so that he/she only knew how to deal with speech motor aspects of stuttering, than that is all she can ethically work on.
Self image is a more general psychological problem, but in a stutterer it may be very focused on the way the person presents him/herself via speech. Some speech pathologists will be equipped by virtue of their training to work on this aspect of the problem.
Woody