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From: Anita
Date: 18 Oct 2007
Time: 17:11:36 -0500
Remote Name: 193.14.254.30
Hi Kristina. Thanks for your wonderful comments! If I can inspire ONE person to be proud of him/herself, it would make my day! I have been through a lot and this story is not even the tip of the iceberg... I have been unlucky with speech therapy because of physical (the first one) and mental (the second one) abuse, but today's SLPs are fantastic! But saying "one-two-three" a dozen times (one of my so called therapies) to PWS who plays the saxophone is not really helpful. :-) Today I use Stutter Free Speech, cognitive training/NLP and plain guts. :-) And please forgive me if I ask you to read my other replies as well, as a lot of it has been said already about what made the change in my life and heart. It's never successful to push anyone into any situation. Try to have your teenage kid to clean his/her room and you know what I mean. :-) But if that would mean that he/she could get friends to sleep over, that might be the clue. Pushing a PWS to speak is pushing a blind person to cross the motorway. Instead: Clear the road. Learn about traffic and traffic rules. Challenge me. Support me. Entice me. And don't make me do things you wouldn't do yourself... Note, I'm not a SLP, but a teacher (amongst other tasks). And my students actually do think I'm pretty cool, as I'm a PWS, an immigrant and a non-qualified teacher, still doing the things I do. :-) So I hope to inspire them as well to follow their dreams, whatever they may be. And to keep talking! Anita