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From: Judy Kuster
Date: 15 Oct 2012
Time: 22:50:22 -0500
Remote Name: 76.17.183.48
Did your wife also go the UW-Madison? I also had to wear a hearing aid for a day (I think we got to keep them and I still have it somewhere;-) as well as pseudostutter. For my fluency disorders class they also had an assignment to spend a day using a fluency enhancing strategy (which they actually found harder than pseudostuttering). My Intro to CDis students had lots of experiential assignments - wear ear plugs for a day to experience a mild (about 20 dB) conductive hearing loss, go on complete voice rest for a day, use only your non-dominant hand for a day, watch the news with the sound off and try to speech read, etc. I also had my counseling class assigned to "change something." It didn't matter what they chose, but the learned a lot over the course of the semester - it is hard to keep up motivation, having a friend monitor or be accountable to helped, most found that they gave up.