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From: Lauryn D
Date: 16 Oct 2012
Time: 09:06:28 -0500
Remote Name: 50.55.193.175
As a speech pathology graduate student who is currently taking a class on fluency, I found this article to be interesting and relevant to past experiences and what I am currently learning. Do you think that each individual who stutters or has stuttered in the past should be labeled as a PWD? Or is this an issue that is based more on the individual and how stuttering affects him or her personally? I ask this question because a great deal of what I have learned about stuttering is that the individual’s feelings, attitudes, and emotions that are connected to stuttering are of importance. Therefore, if a person who stutters sees himself as an effective communicator despite stuttering and does not feel that this disables him, should he still seek to label himself as a PWD?