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From: Scott
Date: 05 Oct 2012
Time: 06:37:40 -0500
Remote Name: 108.17.124.241
Thanks Elise! We'd love to have it read by many ;-) We expressed some similar themes in a letter to the editor that will appear in LSHSS later this month. That was written directly in response to Dr. Marilyn Nippold's column in the April 1, 2011 edition of LSHSS, in which she stated that working on acceptance was essentially 'throwing in the towel.' There's much more to say (thus, the letter to the editor) - with luck, people will read her original column, our response, and her response to us (which we haven't seen yet) and then form their own opinions about what can and should be done to help school-age children who stutter. And, by the way, that letter to the editor had 3 coauthors (me, Bob Quesal, and Craig Coleman), as well as more than 110 cosigners (including Nina , all listed in the acknowledgments. This included people who stutter, people in the self-help and support communities, speech-language pathologists in schools, board-recognized specialists, a clinical psychologist or two, and more. I can't wait to see the reaction (kind of in the same way I feel when I'm pruning a large branch in a tree in my backyard, and the chainsaw has cut 80% of the way through the branch and I start to hear that deep cracking sound...i know something's going to fall, but I don't know in what direction or what it's going to take out with it along the way ;-). Thanks again for your comments...It was fun to write this paper and just sort of "let loose" a bit! Take care, Scott