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From: Vince Vawter
Date: 21 Oct 2011
Time: 08:34:01 -0500
Remote Name: 67.187.126.12
If 1 is the loneliest number then stuttering is the loneliest disability. We all look so normal and then we open our mouths and the world stops. This is the first ISAD Conference I've had the pleasure to take part in, and I couldn't be more appreciative and inspired. My 2012 New Year's Resolution on which I will start early is to read all the archives of the first 13 conferences. Thanks to all the Profs who posted and replied. I could hear the care and concern in your words. Also, thanks to all the PWS for opening up. Remember that we are all in this together. I hope my passion for freedom of the tongue never came across as anything but that. I realized too late in the process that I had gotten carried away and I was on the Prof site answering questions like I knew what I was talking about. I apologize if I offended anyone and said anything "non-clinical." I always tried to use a disclaimer that I have no formal speech therapy training. A special thanks to Judy Kuster, the grand ringmaster of this operation. I have some inkling of what it takes to pull off a multi-national online conference like this. Judy, you are truly amazing. This unwieldy thing called the Internet destroyed my profession, but it certainly gave PWS a new venue where we can learn and be heard. We are not so lonely anymore.