ABSTRACT
Participants in this part of the program were asked to discuss either meaningful research paradigms for, or the obstacles to, relevant stuttering treatment research. We chose to focus on the “obstacles” part of this request, a decision aided by the realization that the 1996 Special Interest Division conference might be the perfect place for such a discussion. This chapter, therefore, addresses two issues that we believe represent major problems with current treatment recommendations and treatment research for stuttering. More importantly, this chapter suggests that we, as a discipline, are capable of better performance on our clients’ behalf than the Special Interest Division's Guidelines for Practice in Stuttering Treatment would have us believe.
