The Death of Fluency Disorders

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Re: From the Public School prospective . . . .

From: Bob Quesal
Date: 10/22/01
Time: 9:26:46 AM
Remote Name: 143.43.201.169

Comments

Hi Jeanne:

Thanks for your important comments. Certainly there is NO ONE in the school setting who is more important in helping kids who stutter than the speech-language pathologist. If you consider all the myths that surround stuttering, its causes, and its treatment, you can see how dangerous it would be for a child who stutters to be in a setting where there was no one who understood the multi-faceted nature of the disorder.

One of the important things that the school SLP can do is to impress upon teachers and others that there is more to stuttering than fluency, and that the variability of stuttering is a very natural thing (that we still have a difficult time trying to explain).

Many people who stutter were initially (if not always totally) helped by a school SLP. Early treatment in the schools often sets the stage for more lasting change later in life. If there are unskilled SLPs in the schools, many children run the risk of not being helped.

This is another piece of a large puzzle and I appreciate your perspective.

Bob Quesal


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