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From: Sandra Merlo
Date: 20 Oct 2009
Time: 12:28:47 -0500
Remote Name: 143.106.1.146
Dear Daisy, thank you for your comments and questions. 1) Economic status will certainly influence the accessibility that a person has with regard to speech therapy, medication, and electronic devices (such as Speech Easy). But I don’t know studies that have analyzed the impact of economic status on the conceptions about the nature of skills. 2) Social factors influence the way people react to failures or difficulties, because people learn to react with helpless or mastery-oriented response with parents and significant others. 3) If a PWS has learned to adopt helpless response with regard to stuttering, he/she will not feel pride of him/herself when stuttering occurs (this can lead to low self-esteem). Helpless response can also limit his/her prognosis, because people with helpless response do not embrace challenges and do not strive to improve (because improving is simply not possible…). Regards, Sandra