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From: Danielle C
Date: 11 Oct 2010
Time: 14:23:16 -0500
Remote Name: 134.29.30.170
I’m currently in my Graduate Program for Speech Pathology and try to get a better grasp on thoughts and feelings of PWS. I was reading a paper on the conference website called the “The debilitating D word.” By Grant Meredith and the following question was triggered… I’ve taken two stuttering classes and cannot recall my professors ever referring to a PWS as a person having the ‘D word’ (disability). I was wondering if a majority of PWS would agree with their stutter as a disability or if they look at the word as being offensive. I know that in the Deaf culture, saying that someone who is deaf has a disability can cause a huge up roar. I feel that a better word for the “D word” would be difficulty rather than disability. How do PWS, or individuals that work with PWS feel about it?