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From: Megan Rhoads
Date: 15 Oct 2006
Time: 10:31:54 -0500
Remote Name: 68.232.180.134
As a first year graduate student in Speech Pathology, I have been taught a lot about equality and treating your clients as individuals first and then addressing their communication disorder. This paper was an eye-opener to how impersonal management and higher-status people can be. It seems to me that management or those individuals in charge of businesses almost treat stuttering as a handicap, such as a neurogenic disorder like Parkinson’s disease, or a physical disability. I feel that if these leaders were more educated and knowledgeable about stuttering, they would better understand their employees who do stutter. They would then be able to see that a majority of PWS are actually no different from anyone else, and should not be punished for their communication disorder.