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From: Lindsey Buoyer
Date: 13 Oct 2008
Time: 17:11:36 -0500
Remote Name: 97.82.209.71
I am a second year graduate student at Appalachian State University in Boone, NC and I just wanted to say how much I enjoyed reading this paper. I think the Harry Potter metaphors are great. I know when I was a teenager and still sometimes care way too much about what others think or will think of me. It has to be hard to get to the point where you accept stuttering and begin to not fight it or care what others say or think about your stuttering. I have a client who stutters who is in second grade and is becoming more and more aware of his speech because his classmates are teasing him. We have talked about how it makes him feel and I work on easy speech as well as correct breathing but don't really focus on accepting his stuttering. What would be your advice to him being so young about how to become more accepting of his stuttering or to me about how to start teaching him to accept it?