Advocacy in the Schools

This year, I spoke at 2 public schools. Both were free presentations offered to anyone who would listen - teachers, teachers' aides, administrators, SLPs, parents. Many thanks to my students' parents for promoting these talks about stuttering.

Children spend so much of their lives in a school building. If every adult and child in the school environment had the chance to learn more about stuttering, how much better life would be for the child who stutters!! Some children are brave enough to do classroom presentations about stuttering. See "My Sixth-Grade Classroom Presentation on Stuttering" http://www.mnsu.edu/comdis/isad7/papers/presentations7/cahalan7.html. Others need adults in their lives to be advocating for them.

Further reading about stuttering therapy at school can be found as part of this year's International Stuttering Awareness Day Online Conference at http://www.mnsu.edu/comdis/isad11/papers/vanriper11.html.