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From: Alison Bliznik
Date: 13 Oct 2004
Time: 18:40:40 -0500
Remote Name: 24.195.29.75
My question is, in what particular ways did the peers at your camp encourage you and help you to address your stuttering, while building your self-confidence as well? It seems to me, that from reading your paper, the people from this camp did in fact have a very positive influence on you and your beliefs about yourself and about stuttering, even when many of your other times of "accepting and overcoming" barriers so to speak, were really more like supressing your true feelings. I participate in group therapy sessions now and work with various children who stutter, who may be supports for the other children in the group in much the same way that children at your camp were, and I see this as being a strong support for many of the children. Could you elaborate further or offer any examples of the ways in which the children helped you, things you experienced at the camp, etc? Thanks!