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From: Anita
Date: 06 Oct 2006
Time: 16:14:40 -0500
Remote Name: 81.228.218.44
You sweet talker, you. And you haven't even seen the new me as a red hair. :-) Now don't you worry, my stutter is alive. It's just not ruling my life anymore. I'm standing in front of the class otday, not because I'm fluent, but because the students like the way I speak, as they can finally make notes without missing anything. Even sign language interpreters as well as participants at disability meetings are very pleased with me speaking, as the interpreters can sign every single word I say (i.e. stutter). They even asked me if they were allowed to "stutter-sign", which I agreed to, saying every hearing person would hear it, so who not the hard of hearing? My first words to the European Commission (I was allowed to make a three minutes speech...) was: I'm scared to death to speak here. Full speech at (http://www.stuttering.ws/publications/speeches_abparli.htm Now, I'll remind you of that beer (or make that a cold glass of Croatian wine) at the World Congress in Croatia in May. :-) Keep (sweet) talking Anita