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From: Bill Rosenthal
Date: 10/9/01
Time: 12:21:58 AM
Remote Name: 134.154.176.34
I think that there is a broader issue. We are not training sufficient PhD SLPs to replace the retiring professoriate. The loss of doctoral programs across the country over the past twenty five years has been staggering, especially here in California. Because fluency disorders are "low incidence" to begin with, the specialty is disproportionately affected. If the profession as a whole was healthy, there would probably a sufficient number of SLPs specializing in fluency disorder to serve our clientele. ASHA needs to be more proactive in getting federal funding to support increased training of PhDs in the profession. Otherwise, I think that you are correct, we will simply diappear.