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Title: Does Speech and Language Therapy Work?: A Review of the Literature by Pam Enderby, Joyce Emerson, Pamela M. Enderby ISBN: 1-56593-707-4 Publisher: Singular Publishing Pub. Date: November, 1995 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $53.95

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Comment: This book was a red flag to me when I read it half way through my graduate program. Unfortunately, I found it hard to believe at the time that what I was studying might be as ineffective as this book suggested. Now, with my degree in hand, I wish that I had spent my time more profitably becoming a physician's assistant as I am now convinced that:1) Most of school based therapy is the imposition of female standards of speech and language (women make up 95% of therapists) on boys (who make up 90% of the school caseload), thereby pathologizing boys simply bcause they are more mechanically than verbally inclined.2) Stuttering therapy has very limited success and many recover spontaneously.3) Stroke rehabilitation for speech is one of the biggest health frauds being perpetrated on the public. 4) Swallowing therapy also has extremely limited success and many of the "exercises" (such as thermal therapy) are no more effective than witchcraft.5) Autism therapy may be comforting for the therapist and the parents but it is ineffective. Speech therapy has a place. I believe that our place hasn't changed much since the 1950's when we were speech correctionists. Unfortunately, the immense financial resources that were available to therapists in the 1970's and 80's corrupted the field and some of the people in the field. Now that those resources have dried up, it is time for the humbling of a field that made more claims than it could back up. When the smoke of the disasters of the 90's clears, there will still be a place for speech therapists (who might no longer go by the pretentious title of "speech-language pathologists") but it will be back to basics - basics that haven't changed much in years, despite what novelties may claim.This is an important book and a courageous one. It looks at issues many in the field do not want to face.