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From: Ken St. Louis
Date: 10/23/01
Time: 9:46:04 AM
Remote Name: 157.182.12.51
Hi Lynne,
Thank you for the kind words about our paper and about my book, "Living With Stuttering: Stories, Basics, Resources, and Hope." I, too, have found that stories from real people who stutter make the problem of stuttering *real* in a way that facts do not. (I guess every fundraiser already knows that!)
"Taking Stock" is a term that I first used in my contribution to the Stuttering Foundation of America's "Advice to Those Who Stutter." I have taken it much further in "Living With Stuttering" by encouraging people to tell, share, and preserve their stories. Also, I developed the "Inventory of Life Perspectives and Stuttering" (ILP-S) as a tool to *check in* with oneself about how much of a problem stuttering is at some point in one's life. Our lives change, and that affects our perspectives toward stuttering. The ILP-S provides a quick way to track some of those effects, both for stutterers who are not in treatment and for clinicians to use with stutterers whom they are treating.
Ken