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From: Veronica
Date: 12 Oct 2006
Time: 18:33:07 -0500
Remote Name: 83.71.60.159
John, Judy & Barbara, thank you for your comments regarding my daughter’s awareness of her stuttering. I have always been open with her and others about her stammering and encouraged her to be the same. In fact I was a lot more open about her stutter than I was about my own until I decided if I was to ask her to be open and honest then I needed to do the same and so I began to deal with my own covert stammer about 18 months ago. I have watched the 'Stuttering for kids by kids' with Bevin (and have posted a comment on it in this online conference) and she and I have found it useful. She has shown it to her Grandmother, Dad and brother as a way of speaking about her stutter with her family members. I have used Sheehan's iceberg with her to talk about her feelings about stammering and we have done this a number of times in the past 6 months so I can gauge where she is with regards to her feelings. I have told her about this online conference and have shown her some of the posts. It is a good idea to speak to her SLP about her awareness and I plan to. As a stuttering parent of a stuttering child I sometimes wonder am I the best person to support her and help her deal with her stammer, given that I have my own issues to deal with, she once commented to me that it was okay for her to stammer but it made her sad when I stammered. Has anyone got any views/thoughts/ experience on the impact on a stuttering child of having a stuttering parent? Sorry to be so long winded.Veronica