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From: Anita
Date: 14 Oct 2007
Time: 15:24:41 -0500
Remote Name: 81.233.61.122
Yes, yes, yes! I hope I, and all those others posting here, gave you that extra push to work with and for people who stutter! We need people like you to help people like me. Especially those kids who need someone who understands and takes them serious, as well as parents looking for help and answers. Your reply would make me want you to be my SLP! About fluency: it's important to realize what you want the fluency for. 1. For yourself as parents? 2. For your child to have a better life with less obstacles? 3. Or to please others? If looking for fluency, the answer should be number 2 only. Stuttering is a problem in life. And if we can help the child to become more fluent, we should. But not at any price! We need not forget that there is this great thing called life. Everybody is good at something and everybody is not as good as something. And that's ok! The main goal should be to help your child to get the best life there is and to have fun living it. To make it proud of itself, to take away (or to help it take away) obstacles that prevent it from following it's dreams. Love your child unconditionally, no matter if it's fluent or not. Help it to find the therapy who fits your child. Bring it together with other children who stutter, so that it knows it's ok to stutter and that it's not alone. Help it to stand up for its right to get help and to not having to be 100% perfect. Maybe all of these above brings greater fluency than to go for the fluency god, forgetting to have fun while doing it... Thanks for your comments and questions and keep talking. Anita