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From: Amanda Eisenbach
Date: 15 Oct 2009
Time: 23:05:05 -0500
Remote Name: 72.80.4.252
I enjoyed reading your article very much and decided to comment on it because during my undergraduate career as a Speech-Language Pathology major at SUNY Cortland, in Upstate New York, I was a participant on a review board for hiring new faculty. One of the individuals we interviewed was a professional woman who was extremely involved in setting up speech-pathology departments for women in Kuwait. Her presentation was about how women in Kuwait do not have as many opportunities to further their education, especially in a field that is still emerging, like speech-language pathology. I liked the fact that your article took the perspective of a different culture on a topic such as stuttering. In the United States, stuttering is not as widely known and accepted as it should be so I could only imagine how it is viewed in countries that are still emergent in communication sciences and disorders. I really enjoyed reading the entire article and think that there should be more done to promote awareness on stuttering and information concerning it. I believe that articles like this are extremely appealing to students in this field because they discuss many of the unknowns that we face on a daily basis, especially in a field where English as a Second Language as well as multiculturalism is becoming a major factor. I feel that the charts and graphs that were embedded within the paper made it more interesting than it already was because they created a visual for me that helped to cement the key ideas into my memory. It was also interesting to see the five different “causes of stuttering” that many of the teachers and clinicians feel are the main reasons that people begin to stutter. I would like to commend you on this article and I hope that you write more in the future regarding the progress that Kuwait has made concerning stuttering and it’s development.