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From: Lisa LaSalle
Date: 19 Oct 2010
Time: 17:10:06 -0500
Remote Name: 137.28.24.25
You raise a good question, Dan. I have often wondered why, if prevalence is 1%, on a campus of ~ 10,500 students with a University clinic where we provide free services to college students, why we don't see ~ 105 college students who stutter. Surely the factors are covert stuttering, acceptance and not looking for help about one's stutering, etc. Perhaps it is also lack of good PR about our university clinic and what we offer, even tho my students will set up an info booth in the student center around National Stuttering Awareness Week and International Stuttering Awareness Day. Another set of factors probably surround the stigma of stuttering openly, so good for you for overcoming that in your own way. A follow-up question of you is, how are you able to "count four or five covert stutterers in your graduating class"? That is, how do you know that they are covert stutterers, and have you ever brought it up with any of them? Obviously this would be harder to do with the celebs you mention :)