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From: Walt Manning
Date: 12 Oct 2009
Time: 18:34:22 -0500
Remote Name: 141.225.97.59
I agree with the earlier posts indicating that nearly everyone has something to contribute about the nature of stuttering. People who stutter are, at least in some ways, experts about their story. Many people who are not professionals in the field have accumulated knowledge that is often valuable. I have heard on a few occasions, people from other fields who happen to stutter and give workshops say that Speech Pathology and Audiology is a difficult field break into. It seems to me that most fields are like that, and should be, especially if you don't have at leat one degree in the discipline. I do believe, however, that real experts, beyond having some useful information, understanding and experience about a topic, also know enough to know that they don't know everything. It may be worthwhile to remember Bertrand Russell's comment that "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt."