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Re: Stuttering Spring — when?

From: Ed Feuer
Date: 18 Oct 2011
Time: 23:31:24 -0500
Remote Name: 207.161.157.111

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Well, I've waited patiently for an answer after my clarification and it seems that not only are the professors not "in" for this question, they've left the building. I have a friend who tells me that I'm wasting my time in expecting progressive, idealistic students will be drivers for meaningful change. "Ed, these are not arts students," the friend says, meaning that they don't question, debate, challenge and protest. Maybe the penalties for the above are just too severe. It could be that because stuttering is only one of many speech disorders, they don't give it the focus many of us who stutter (some of the time) would like. Perhaps only those SLPs who have a stuttering problem themselves care enough to be real generators of advances. (At least those in that category who don't feel they have to be more royalist than the king to garner acceptance from their fluent peers.) Sooooo, because I continue to live in hope and since PWS (some of the time) do it repeatedly, I will repeat my question: Professors, what are you doing to encourage your students to challenge orthodoxies and to think outside the box before they become well invested in the not-so-glorious status quo? And yes, sadly, no answer is an answer in this case. — Ed edfeuer@mts.net


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