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From: Anita
Date: 16 Oct 2006
Time: 15:05:33 -0500
Remote Name: 81.228.218.44
Hi Nicole Thanks for your nice and insightful comments. You really got my message. If one person gets beaten up and 99 aren't, is violence a problem or not? We need to fight for our rights and claim more research and better education for SLPs, teachers, employers and employment officers and other people who we have to rely on. And we're there to give you all the help we can. I don't know if stuttering is so much different in Europe than in the USA, but there are many countries in the world where stuttering still is being seen as something very wrong, a punishment from God, being posessed by the devel, not being allowed to get married or have children and to be forced to eat crickets after sunset... Today there are SLPs who travel to countries who are less forntunate and give lectures there to raise awareness. I myself have been so fortunate to be invited to other countries to speak about stuttering, as, although stuttering is a part of SLP education, not many people who stutter would stand up and talk about it. So if you are interested in the situation in Europe, do read the ISAD conferences also from earlier years, go to www.elsa.info and get in touch with European support groups and SLPs. We're all in this together and if we all join hands, SLPs, researchers and PWS, we might one day finish this puzzle. Anita If you have any more insight about stuttering in European society I would love to hear about it. Thanks for your article!