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From: Scott Palasik
Date: 18 Oct 2010
Time: 20:31:18 -0500
Remote Name: 68.63.221.248
Leslie and Jamie, HI! Thank you so much for writing and thanks for your questions. Can I ask a few questions of you two? Are you students? If so, where are you in your program? ....I will first address your first two : "We saw that you did not start receiving services until you were 18, was it ever suggested before then? Were you ever evaluated in the school setting?"--- Yes, I saw a speech therapist for six months when I was eight years old. What the therapist did was had me read and tell me to slow down and think and breath as I read. She also told my parents to tell me to "Stop, slow down, and breathe" whenever I talked. After six months I walked into the therapist office one day and stuttered "I th-think I'm d-done" and I walked out. My parents asked me when I got home if I quit, I said yes, and that was it....Your next two question about my dad: "Did your father ever talk to you about stuttering before you went to college? Was he more understanding than your mother, since he was experiencing the same thing?"---Sadly enough we never really talked about stuttering. He only said he stuttered as kid and sometimes he still did, that was the extend. To be honest, I wish we did. My father died this past April and the last time I saw him he was stuttering more and he was getting angry about it, I wanted to talk with him and never did. It is funny, I was finishing my PhD, with a focus on Stuttering when my father died and we didn't really talk about it openly and honestly with the exception of that Christmas day I talked about in the article...That is life though...Thank you ladies for asking these questions, they are very welcome and I encourage you both to keep asking questions and sharing your thoughts...Have a great day! Scott