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| The Successful Stuttering Management
Program (SSMP) is designed for adolescent and adult secondary stutterers.
It may be used in schools, university programs, speech and hearing
clinics, hospitals, and by the private practitioner. The clinician
implementing the program should be an ASHA certified Speech-Language
Pathologist. Any student clinician should work directly under
the supervision of the certified clinician. Many well motivated,
sophisticated stutterers can implement this program on their own.
After all, in the final analysis, the stutterer is the only one who
can learn how to manage his stuttering successfully. The clinician
can only guide, direct and encourage. The program is designed for either individual or group therapy; however, it is written for a group (any more than one is considered a group). The group approach is strongly encouraged both for interest and for mutual support which will grow during the program and, in all probability, will carry over to the post-therapy period of the stutterers' lives. The Successful Stuttering Management Program (SSMP) provides a practical, hands-on approach to stuttering therapy. It is a program of doing, not one of philosophizing about, theorizing about, nor debating about, stuttering. There is a myriad of information in those areas, and it was not our intent to add to that. The underlying rationale for this program is that stuttering is a unique communication disorder of presently unknown origin or origins, and it cannot be cured--not unlike many other human ills. The stutterer can, however, learn to manage his stuttering and his speech so that he can communicate as a stutterer in any situation without undue stress and strain to himself or his listener. The clinician will guide and execute this therapy program, but it is the responsibility of the stutterer to accept not only the fact that he is a stutterer, but also the responsibility for changing his way of communicating to one that is much more socially acceptable. |
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