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From: Grant Meredith
Date: 20 Oct 2011
Time: 18:20:23 -0500
Remote Name: 141.132.192.95
Hello Denise. Great to hear from you. I think it is so important to teach beyond the subject materials and express humanity as you see it to a wider audience. I do not see myself as inspirational personally. I see myself as an educator trying to make a difference. In terms of speech therapy I have been trained in and used smooth speech and the McGuire Technique. Both of which worked wonders for me but for various reasons I did not embrace or keep up practise and regimented use. I think you are correct about the negative attachment to stuttering being an embracement factor. The fact that I do not view stuttering as a day to day negative of course impacts on using technique. I am so wrapped in life beyond my speech that my stuttering is very low on my list of priorities and so is technique then. I function very well during day-to-day life activities without therapy technique that I practically forget all about using it .. yet I stutter. I think with a negative view point I would have embraced therapy and techniques more so and would have probably been using them constantly. Again though at the moment stuttering is a small part of my entire being and I can use it to my advantage at times. We should always view our abilities as advantages and use them as such.