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From: Ken St. Louis
Date: 14 Oct 2010
Time: 12:50:50 -0500
Remote Name: 157.182.15.31
Hello Ed, I guess we're not argumentative and uncompromising enough for your taste. If that is the case and assuming you are following the current campaign for midterm elections in the USA, I wonder if you are happy with the attack ads and half-truths being put on the airways. As I have written in past conferences, I won't debate you on this, but I will say that we do listen to those who stutter. I stutter myself from time to time, but mostly I believe I would be considered one of those "fluenters." It was the stuttering self-help leaders that pushed the hardest for specialty recognition, and the Special Interest Division on Fluency and Fluency Disorders was the first one in ASHA to develop a specialty recognition program. The NSA provides much needed continuing education for nonstuttering SLPs. This conference itself is evidence that we listen to those who stutter. I have always been quite outspoken, but I believe that courtesy and trying to appreciate other points of view will lead me closer to the truth than drawing a line in the sand. Van Riper, whom you seem to admire, was once credited with a compliment I have not forgotten (although I do not remember who said it). "He learned from those he disagreed with." Ken