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From: Elsa Flannery, NJ
Date: 20 Oct 2009
Time: 18:54:59 -0500
Remote Name: 71.250.31.217
I found your article a bit difficult to read, you explained your difficulty so very clearly...i felt that your shared moments were almost mine. I do not stutter, and as a graduate student will need to participate in several occasions of voluntary stuttering in order to appreciate what you yourself have experienced: people's reactions, possible intolerance and impatience, etc. I will freely admit that on two occasions, thus far, i've chickened out! i'm not feeling too proud, but i did. Just in trying to prepare myself for the experience, i felt my throat constricting, and my shoulders tensing--and this was voluntary!! i don't imagine that a non-stutterer will EVER truly feel or understand what a stuterer really experiences. I appreciated your sharing your journey, and i appreciated your transparency. Thank you. I work tih a 9-yr.old boy who has begun to control his dysfluency but, after a month-long absence from school, returned being moderate to severe. His homelife is chaotic at best; his mother is very immature--having had 4 children w/3 men; his father is in jail and tho he loves his stepmom, doesn't see her that often. He has a HUGE amount of anger bottled inside. Do you have any suggestions of which areas of his life i should place primary focus in order to help his better navigate thru his stress? thank you elsa flannery els1353@msn.com