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I he therapist tries to replace wrong speech habits that the child has learned and at the same probes into the youngster’s homelife to find the underlying cause of the speech disfunction.
“I hope in my practice to hit all types of speech disorders in all ages but my special interest is in stuttering.” Gottlieb said. While correction is easier to achieve in youngsters, therapy can also help adult stutters. “It's difficult and it requires a commitment on their part but adult stutterers can be cured.” he said.
Gottlieb is an example of the kind of success that's possible. His stuttering was at its most severe while he was in high school and college. "But I liked to talk a lot. I talked in spite of my stutter—I even told stuttering jokes!” he laughed, adding that with that type of attitude. the progonsis for cure is good. “Two things happened to me. Things began to click and my self image improved. Also, my mother steered me to a speech clinic where they payed a lot of attention to how I breathed and paused. 1 was helped by concentrating on coordination. trying to send the words out on the outbreath." he recalled. i Gottlieb , still besil»t,es slightly in his speech but the pauses occur with much less frequency than the "you knows" that punctuate the speech of so many nonstutterers.
Dream Home
After traveling, learning to be grandparents, returning to school and starting a new' career. the Gottliebs dedicated two years to finding a spot to play out the rest of their dream. Sid wanted a part-time practice in speech therapy that would allow him to work jointly with Margaret who after 20 some years of teaching, received training as a learning disabilities instructor from the Kingsbury Center in Washington. D.C.. and has tutored LD youngsters for the past 14 years.
But equally as important the Gottliebs were looking for a site for the group house they'd decided to build in an innovative sharing arrangement planned with two other families as an alternative in old age to nursing homes or living with grown children. They envisioned an energy efficient structure with private and communal space, built on one floor to provide easy wheel chair access so that the three couples could care for each other.
And they didn't see this dream house in California. "California’s a good place to go for a holiday but not to live. How can you appreciate spring when it's eternal spring? You need a rough winter!” Sid maintained. The couple chose to return to the East Coast where they’d left friendships established over a quarter of a century and started looking for a homesite. first in West
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