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From: George Shames
Date: 10 Oct 2006
Time: 23:21:16 -0500
Remote Name: 68.162.160.205
I believe that there was a wide range of attitudes going in both directions regarding the ability of a PWS to work on the problem of stuttering, as well as questioning the ability of non-stutterers to wok on this problem. I would guess that these attitudes are still operating but not to the same degree as they once did. Stutterers and Non-stutterers alike as clinicians experienced success,failure and relapse. We all felt the need to improve what we were doing, theoretically, in research and in our clinical tactics. We usually first looked at ourselves and tried to improve the way we did things or the way we thought. After all, necessity is the mother of invention, and necessity in in this case evolves from failure and relapse. If we learn to examine and share our experiences with one another, success and failure and relapse, I believe that the attitudes regarding whether or not we stutter will become less of a factor ikn our thinking.