title: The speech-language pathologist's role in stuttering self-help groups.
abstract: This article reviews definitions of self-help and support groups, describes some basic views that speech-language pathologists and self-help groups have of each other, then comments on ways in which professionals are relating to self-help groups. These comments are based on answers to a questionnaire distributed to a sample of speech-language pathologists who interact with self-help groups. It is recommended that speech-language pathologists should relate to the self-help movement in stuttering as consultants.
authors.affiliation: Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA.
authors.forename: H H
authors.initials: HH
authors.lastname: Gregory
mesh_terms: D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D004995:Ethics, Professional; D006379:Helping Behavior; D006801:Humans; D012657:Self-Help Groups; D013066:Speech-Language Pathology; D013342:Stuttering / Q000628:therapy*