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From: Cristen Schnabel- graduate student
Date: 04 Oct 2006
Time: 20:12:32 -0500
Remote Name: 65.123.220.22
Mr. Reitzes, thank you for sharing your article. I found it very fascinating. It has always bothered me that we classify stuttering as mild, moderate, or severe. I agree that those classifications do not tell us the whole picture. You wrote about how various people may want to be referred to as stutterers or PWS or people living with stuttering, and I was curious what you preferred to be called. We are drilled in school to remember person first language, but I find it interesting that most of the individuals on this conference tend to call themselves stutterers. I think that it is always important that we use the term that the individual prefers.