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From: Anita
Date: 11 Oct 2010
Time: 04:13:24 -0500
Remote Name: 217.209.3.225
Hi! Thanks for your kind words. Yes, we all need positive role models, not just young people. And people to share the good and the bad with. That's why it's so fantastic to be with other people who stutter! I find it the hardest to reach out to kids in their early teens. You can talk to children in a playful way and "twenties" already have life experience from both good and bad moments where we try to exchange the bad times with positive thoughts and make them focus on the good times. But teens have so many other things to worry about. Their bodies, the opposite sex, school, parents, jobs, future etc etc. Here facts are of minor interest while personal input is crucial. You have to become one of them. Speak their language, move their moves, do crazy stuff. Sometimes not even with focus on stuttering, but focus on how to cope in life as a person. And when you manage to get through, you get a friend for life! Craving, but ever so rewarding. Good luck and happy ISAD! Anita in your opinion is it more difficult working with children or teens/"twenties"? Are the older people more likely to understand stuttering than the children? Are they able to manage their emotions and feeling towards stuttering better?