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From: Peter Schneider
Date: 10/10/03
Time: 5:15:13 AM
Remote Name: 134.130.15.1
Hello Vickie, thank you for your question! In Germany a medical doctor writes a prescription with a set number of visits at the SLT. If the set number is over and the disorder still needs more treatment, the SLT proposes a further prescription to the doctor (the latter often does not know a lot about stuttering) . Depending on the clinical diagnosis you can get only one or a certain amount of follow-up-prescriptions. With some chronical deseases you can get even an unlimited prescription. But you need a very broad assessment in this case. As to stuttering you can have all three possibilities. Thus the health insurances continue paying until the doctor allows the therapist to dismiss the client or - the other way round - the therapist doesn´t demand (or doesn´t succed in demanding) a new prescription. Besides every client (except of children) has to pay a certain amount of the fees by himself. You see - medical insurances are interested in a list of evaluated successful therapies in order to make doctors prescribe short and effective therapies. Peter