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From: Olga
Date: 02 Oct 2007
Time: 13:47:33 -0500
Remote Name: 128.122.253.228
I'm a graduate student at the Speech-Language Pathology program at NYU and am currently taking a Fluency class. I found your article to be incredible heartfelt, really giving a vivid picture of what it must feel like to go through every stage of one's life as a person who stutters. You write that you had a very severe stutter, to the point where your grandfather couldn't understand you and that you have overcome that. I'm wondering if you overcoming your stutter was based on affective/cognitive issues or if you used techniques to get more fluent--or maybe it was a combination of both? How important do you think fluency is to 'being real'? Thank you