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From: Andrew Harding
Date: 10/13/01
Time: 10:29:18 AM
Remote Name: 62.6.83.110
Hello Bobby,
What a warm, well told story. You know, I must have seen part of it on a listserve because I remembered reading about your interview with the HR geek and the follow-up action. It was great to read it again, and doing do set off three lines of thought.
1) Woody Starkweather mention the interest that the Birch Tree Foundation have in making a training video on stammering for employers. I bet you would be a good person to have in the video with your experience. Of course a video is in the discussion stages only, but the good thing about these conferences is that one can develop all sorts of ideas.
2) Your repeated emphasis about the indispensible value of a support network of some form, post therapy, absolutely chimes with my experience. It should be written into the therapy objectives of all speech pathologists and therapists.
3) You seem to have had some success with geting stammering awanesess training onto the agenda of one company's HR department at least. This made me think about doing the same here in the UK. It would be a long process, but it took the BSA education officer a couple of years to get stammering awareness training onto the agenda of the teacher training colleges' special needs module, so we may need to begin a similar process with HR training courses.
I should have looked though your paper before sending my earlier replies, but saw it only now. Best of luck with your ongoing work and interviews.
Regards,
Andrew