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Re: The Image

From: Ed Feuer
Date: 08 Oct 2010
Time: 11:08:33 -0500
Remote Name: 142.161.141.8

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Hello, Judy. I'm not talking about a "stutter-step" or what happens with a recording/disk "stutters." I'm talking about the noxious conversational uses of stuttering that connote lower intelligence, shame, failure or incompetence. Rather than repeat an elaboration (although stutters do it repeatedly), I refer, in order to save bandwidth, to what I said on this last year, including examples: http://www.mnsu.edu/comdis/cahn_mnsu_edu/12profin/_disc54/00000115.htm But there are real consequences and that does bear repeating: the noxious conversational uses of the term are the only frame of reference most people have about stuttering — and it what happens when they meet someone who really does stutter should come as no surprise. They plug into those noxious conversational usages and the resulting unfair social and vocational discrimination is very real. In my view, the support organizations, for reasons of their own, are not doing what they need to be doing about this in the public arena. Therefore, it is incumbent upon ASHA and SLPs to do more in that public arena. I think the above does have implications for therapy. The resulting "bruised psyches" as Van Riper called it, require more than mechanistic exercises in the clinic room. What say you and any of the other profs? — edfeuer@mts.net


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