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From: Lauryn Barrett
Date: 19 Oct 2012
Time: 14:53:51 -0500
Remote Name: 66.109.62.178
Pam, After reading through the previous threads, I know that by this point you have heard it a thousand times but Wow, I really love this article! I love how you’ve taken something so simple and so familiar among both fluent speakers and PWS alike and created this thread of commonality. I am a graduate student studying SLP and it is not always easy to fully understand all aspects of fluency disorders (or any disorder at that) but the ISAD conference allows readers to take on so many new perspectives and I love being able to learn from the experiences of others! My initial curiosity had me wondering when exactly your “ah-hah” moment came to be but seeing as how that question was answered in a previous response, this leads me to the following; I know individuals who stutter tend to transpose their thoughts and/or ideas of his/her own stutter onto that of their listener so I was wondering, in being a more confident speaker, do you feel as though your “listeners” recognize you for that? Do you feel that a PWS and has come to terms with his/her disfluency portrays him/herself to society in the same manner as a PWS and is still dealing with internal struggles? Do you think that “inner piece of confidence” is readily recognized by society? For example, do you think you, versus someone who wants to but is still struggling to cope with acceptance would be viewed differently? I hope I phrased this question correctly… Thanks again for your post =)