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From: Joseph Dewey
Date: 22 Oct 2005
Time: 19:29:25 -0500
Remote Name: 24.10.194.97
Hi Sarah. Thanks for your comments and questions. The Myers/St. Louis text is extremely hard to find, but it's generally available at large college libraries. I think that my goal of perfect fluency is important for me, but probably hard to explain. The goals that motivate me the most are the unattainable, abstract ones. I think that's kind of a cluttering attribute to be attracted to the abstract. So for me it's a lot more about the journey than it is about actually getting there. For me it means a lifelong goal of always improving my speech and learning more about it and being able to control it. And, with your question of perfection being me or others, it's mostly with me. I think that so little is generally known about cluttering that mild cluttering is very unrecognizable by the lay person. My speech has improved to the point where the most common reaction I get now when I tell people that I was diagnosed with a speech problem is that they say..."Joseph, I think that you think that your speech is worse than it is." I think that there are still definite elements of cluttering to my speech, but I think that most people don't know what to look for. So, most people would now describe my speech as normal, even though I’ve still got a lot of work to do before I can speak without cluttering.