The presenter of this paper, Born with a Broken Tongue has consented to have a personal email address posted here if you wish raise further questions and/or comments. nkosi@hotmail.com CD ROM From: an SLP Date: 10/3/98 Time: 6:36:39 PM Remote Name: 152.163.204.204 Comments I do wish that I had the computing requirements to view your work. Very interesting, however. My quess is that others feel the same. Good luck. stutterer's perspectives From: chuck goldman Date: 10/9/98 Time: 5:28:09 PM Remote Name: 152.163.205.59 Comments By creating such an individualistic approach to educating the public about stuttering you have indeed created a mass appeal tool. Bravo to you in transforming the feelings of one person into the actual senses of others. Perhaps such CD-ROM use may serve as a viable adjunct/substitute for self help groups. Re: stutterer's perspectives From: Martin Date: 10/12/98 Time: 5:09:30 AM Remote Name: 147.252.71.65 Comments To Chuck, Thank you for taking the time to see the site. Looking forward to speaking to you again! Martin All I can say is "wow!" From: Judy Kuster Date: 10/10/98 Time: 12:02:31 PM Remote Name: 134.29.30.79 Comments Martin, Your comment: >I must stress that I am not looking for sympathy from the user, just a little patience. is particularly interesting when you are trying to use the Internet to show people what you are doing;-) I have a Macintosh G3 computer with an ethernet connection and I still have to be patient to download many of the quicktime movies from your server in Ireland to mine here in Minnesota. But it was definitely worth it! Thank you for your interesting paper, and for what you are doing. I REALLY like your poster of famous PWS. That alone is worth the online "trip" to Ireland to see and since it does not have any special requirements to view it, most people should be able to reach that part of your site without any trouble or a lot of time. Have you considered contacting your local stammering association to have them make a poster out of that one?? It is wonderful! I was delighted to see Ludwig Quidde on there;-) I found an article he wrote (I think in the 20's) about his personal path toward recovery - it is on the Stuttering Home Page. What an interesting person he was! I know you said this wasn't planned as a commercial venture for you, but I am curioius how much a copy of your CD rom might cost for you to make and mail. Do you have facilities to do that? I can see many interesting applications of what you are doing -- including using it at high school science fairs, at career days, to help a high school student who stutters educate his/her classmates and teachers about stuttering, for inservices with teachers of students who stutter, etc. Re: All I can say is "wow!" From: martin Date: 10/12/98 Time: 5:07:46 AM Remote Name: 147.252.71.65 Comments Thanks for the words of encouragement. I'm very pleased that I have managed to create a piece which can do some good. I would love to have the piece available for schools and educational institutions etc but I don't have the finances to supply on demand. So basically I'm waiting for a fairy God mother to arrive at my door or ring my phone. Anyway I'll see what happens. I have been nominated for an European award on multimdeia for the piece I created. You can also vote for your favorate piece and possibly win a prize to Austria in November. Thanks for the encouragement! Martin Born With a Broken Tongue From: J. O'Reilly Date: 10/14/98 Time: 1:52:41 PM Remote Name: 207.109.214.34 Comments This is really interesting. I love your work. Wonderful ideas and colors, although patience was required to view it! A thought occurred to me while reading your article.Do you ex- perience impatience when listening to another stutter? Or are you drawing from what others have told you? Keep up the neat stuff. JO Re: Born With a Broken Tongue From: Martin Date: 10/15/98 Time: 8:58:01 AM Remote Name: 147.252.71.65 Comments I suppose having a stutter gives you the ability to understand dthe problems that another person may face. however I have found that I make the same mistakes as non stutterers do. Helping the stutterer finish a sentence for example. plus experiencing how friends react gives you a brilliant understanding of their frustration and impatience! Thanks for the encouragement! Martin Excellent use of multimedia From: Mark R. Thomas Date: 10/19/98 Time: 10:05:56 AM Remote Name: 134.29.32.200 Comments Martin, I checked out your website using shockwave, viewed the Europrix video awards and surfed through your MetaDesign links. Read about Meta (it's cool font.) I also like the hand-written-print font that you use on the interface for "Born with a Broken Tongue." My own phone rang just moments after hearing the "shocked" sounds of a telephone ringing and the voiced thoughts of a man deciding not to answer the phone because he might not be able to say the word "Hello." I found myself saying "hello" with a new awareness and appreciation of my own speech. In reading about MetaDesign's philosophy about multimedia their approach to design I realized that you are on a great adventure in exploiting new-media's graphic vocabulary. You have created a typographically refined user-interface for others to explore and experience stuttering in an information design that engenders a more personal understanding. Good luck, looks to me that you have a bright multimedia future ahead. - Mark Re: Excellent use of multimedia From: martin Date: 10/19/98 Time: 11:03:46 AM Remote Name: 147.252.71.65 Comments Thanks for checking out the site! I'm pleased that it made you appreciate your own voice and sound of your voice. Thanks Martin Born with a Broken Tongue From: Beth Hebert and Amy Wendelboe-Hanson Date: 10/19/98 Time: 10:39:19 AM Remote Name: 134.29.22.65 Comments Your concept of patience and frustration was definitely experienced here in a very unusually fascinating way! Powerful images! How unfortunate that not everyone, due to the plug-ins, could experience this web site. plugins From: martin Date: 10/27/98 Time: 4:36:00 AM Remote Name: 147.252.71.65 Comments The problem that one is always going to have is using plugins. It isn't too difficult to get the appropriate plugins. I suppose there is only so much that I can do. Anyway if you do have the plugins it should be enlightening