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From: Kaitlyn
Date: 20 Oct 2012
Time: 20:57:37 -0500
Remote Name: 74.71.28.21
Thanks for posting your article and providing insight. I found your comments on the Stuttering Identity to be particularly interesting. As a current graduate student clinician working with school-age children who stutter, I see this identity formation process as having the potential to become much more complicated in the middle school to high school years, and I wonder to what extent the development of an identity of a PWS would further complicate the development of an identity of a 13 year old. I am not a PWS, but I can recall how very little I enjoyed those middle school years, and it makes me wonder what additional psychological and/or developmental impact constructing an identity around stuttering may have for a child of this age (who is just trying to make sense of their role in life in the most basic sense.) I also wonder how this identity formation affects their willingness to participate and their overall interest in therapy and their fluency retention as they enter into adolescence.