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  • Disability viewed as a human rights issue.
  • Direct challenge to the medical model & institutions within which most SLTs have been trained and work.

Calls into question:

  • Principles upon which therapy is based.
  • Roles of therapist/client.
  • Language.
  • Range of therapies offered.
  • Types, forms and aims of research into stammering.

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If speech language pathology is the intervention that stuttering activists seek from the government, medicine and private sphere, there is at least a conversation to be had about its medical necessity […] The stutter itself is only a negative bodily development if making people occasionally wait an extra two to ten minutes is a pathological emergency. This is all just to say, the burden should be on speech pathologists to prove their legitimacy on something more than merely auditory aesthetics.

— Richter (2019, p.73-74)

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Call for action

  • Ethical responsibility.
  • Locating therapy discourse within wider disability/neurodiversity discourse.
  • Call for broader focus of therapy to address roles that self-identity, society and social stigma play.
  • Drive to enrich and enhance professional accounts.
  • Co-authoring therapy knowledge.

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References
  • Richter, Z. (2019) On stuttering activism and resistance. In Campbell P. Constantino C. & Simpson, S, Stammering Pride and Prejudice: Difference Not Defect. J&R Press.
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