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PWS blamed

From: jerry johnson
Date: 10/19/01
Time: 8:51:48 PM
Remote Name: 152.163.194.187

Comments

Hi Viren: You have expressed the most profound questions yet: including "Ill feelings...." May I respond? SLP's are invested (monetarily and emotionally) in their therapy. If only the PWS would only "try harder" they would be alright. Take a look at this statement: the responsibility rests upon the PWS! Too few times, mostly in the past, have the SLP's taken a heart to heart look into the PWS's soul. As students we have been taught to maintain an emotional distance between ourselves (SLP's) and the client. How wrong we have been. We must feel the pain and relate to it. We must walk in the persons shoes and know that it takes time, loving (loving?), competence, and caring to make the PWS whole. We can't bully the PWS into becoming whole. We can only nuture the PWS and use our professional skill in aiding and abetting the PWS into realizing that they truly do have the talent to become a better speaker and to realize their other talents too. "It is easy for the clinician to say," but not so easy to overcome so many years of pain and torture of being a PWS. You must walk in my shoes to understand! Now on to the ill feelings of brothers and sisters. Sometimes the entire family is not brought in to the therapy picture. Kids are not Chine Dolls and they are resilient beyound the parents understanding. A stuttering child is often to be protected and pampered, often to the detriment of the other children in the family. The best advice I have to give to a family is to environmentally reorganize so as to take into consideration the unique characteristics of all the family members and to tolerate imperfection of each member. This is a long story, much too long to talk about here, but it can be done to the benefit of all. Just suffice it to say that this condition need not exist if good family counseling is available. Best to you.


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