7yo DD has been stuttering for the past 18 months. She has seen a speech therapist every so often during this period who has told me that there is nothing to be done and we should wait it out. I have been trying to get a second opinion but we live in rural France and there is a long waiting list. It looks like we finally have an appointment with another speech therapist who specializes in stuttering.
The original speech therapist also sees DS regularly so I mentioned that DD would be seeing her colleague so as not to alienate her. The original speech therapist then said that we should probably see a kinesthiologue instead. A kinesthiologue, at least in our part of France, is a woo woo energy manipulator. I didn’t want to be rude to the speech therapist so I said that DD, who has a rare bone disease, cannot be manipulated by anyone without having been briefed by her orthoapedic surgeon. This is true as far as physio goes, so it was a plausible lie to extend to kinesthiologie.
But the speech therapist trumped me by saying that was not a problem at all since the kinesthiologue could manipulate me instead and the energy would jump to DD, deblock the psychological blockage and DD would stop stuttering.
AIBU to think it’s disgraceful that health professionals believe in such crap and give this kind of bollocks advice?!