Counseling Core

Continued from Developmental Stuttering Curriculum Outline (Click Here to Return)

B. COUNSELING CORE:

1. Role of the SLP with clients who stutter
    a. Purpose of therapy
    b. Characteristics of the therapist
    c. Therapeutic alliance
    d. Boundaries/scope of practice
2. Readiness to change/process of change
3. Cultural awareness/competence
    a. Validating the client’s own perspective (verbal; nonverbal)
    b. Curiosity to understand clients’ perspectives
4. Valuing individual differences
5. Neurodiversity
6. Methods
    a. Cognitive
    b. Emotional
    c. Behavioral

RESOURCES [see others in Treatment Core]:

Streaming Videos:

Counseling Persons with Communication Disorders (David Luterman)

Sharpening Counseling Skills* (David Luterman)

Parent Counseling: Conversations with David Luterman, Ed.D. (two-part video) (Group Therapy with Parents; Therapists’ Review of Parent Session)

Implementing Cognitive Behavior Therapy with School-Aged Children Who Stutter (Lisa Scott)

Tools for Success: A Cognitive Behavior Therapy Taster (Frances Cook and Willie Botterill)

Titles or Testimonies? A Mindset for Counseling (Anthony DiLollo)

Podcasts:

Thawing the Stuttering Iceberg (Courtney Luckman)

Does Therapy Satisfy Children Who Stutter? (Sharon Millard)

Exploring High Standards and Models of Imperfection (Ali Berquez)

Printed Materials:

Effective Counseling in Stuttering Therapy (multiple authors)

Therapy Game:

The PowerR Game (Gordon Blood)

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Thank you for your interest in my life long problem with my speech and communication skills. I was a very shy and reserved young man who could not speak at all without severely stuttering until I was 28 years old. Always a success in the classroom and on the basketball court, I took refuge in the things that I did well as a youngster. A straight A student, my athletic abilities covered the deficiencies that limited my overall growth and development. The game of basketball was my religion, the gym my church. It was a convenient way of avoiding my responsibilities of developing my human relation skills.

When I was 28, a chance encounter at a social event with Hall of Fame broadcaster Marty Glickman completely changed my life in so many ways that things have never been the same since, nor have they ever been better. That day, in a very brief, private conversation (one way, mind you, since I literally could not speak at the time) Marty explained, patiently and concisely, that talking, communicating was a skill not a gift or a birthright and that like any skill, whether it be sports, music, business or whatever, needed to be developed over a lifetime of hard work, discipline, organization and practice. Marty gave me some simple tips that day and then encouraged me to take those keys and apply them to methods of learning that I had received from the special teachers that I had come across in my life, particularly the 6 Hall of Fame basketball coaches that I had played for throughout my career. The beginning of my whole new life was as simple as that. No gimmicks, tricks or shortcuts. Just the realization that with some help, guidance and a lot of hard work that I too could do what seemed so easy, simple and natural to everyone else, yet seemed impossibly out of my reach and comprehension.