Use of conference for my web-based course SECD 560 (Stuttering:
Diagnosis & Management)

From: carolynp@subr.edu
Date: 9/23/99
Time: 4:05:24 PM
Remote Name: 134.29.30.79

Comments

Thanks for this wonderful opportunity to discuss the different topics with the authors. I am teaching a web-based course in
stuttering. My students are required to participate in the online conference and then write a descriptive paper of their
experience. The paper will be worth 50 points. 

Congratulations AGAIN

From: Gert Reunes Chairman Belgium Stutterers
Date: 10/1/99
Time: 3:01:20 AM
Remote Name: 194.78.219.55

Comments

Not only a professional look...but IT IS A PROFESSIONAL ON LINE CONFERENCE!!! 

Nobody can stop ISAD anymore.

ISAD2

From: Pete Hawkes
Date: 10/3/99
Time: 8:15:34 AM
Remote Name: 195.92.194.15

Comments

An excellent opportunity to learn alot about stammering and see the problem explored from the point of view of fellow
stammerers, SLP's and others. A remarkable conference using technology to bring the stammering world together!


Thanks Judy and all those who thought of this idea.

From: Joe Kalinowski
Date: 10/5/99
Time: 7:49:55 AM
Remote Name: 150.216.147.209

Comments

I am in awe of the power of this "tremendous conference". It serves the consumer, the educator, the student, the scholar
and those just passing by for look-see. It shows our agreements , our disagreements, our passions, our biases, and our
imperfections. I misunderstood the power of such a tool but now I see the light. 

I'm amazed at the questions students have posed. Sometimes those with the least psychological investment have the most
salient questions and comments (or that may be my own bias). 

Thanks Judy and all those who thought of this idea. 


Conference WORLDCONGRESS 2001 BELGIUM???

From: Gert.reunes@compaqnet.be
Date: 10/5/99
Time: 2:07:24 PM
Remote Name: 194.78.220.149

Comments

Hi Judy, I wonder if you can be our webmaster for the Worldcongress in 2001 GHENT-BELGIUM...??? You are doing
such a wonderfull job with this on line congress. This has to be also the case every time there is a worldcongress isn't it? 

Warmly Gert reunes manager isa 6 th worldcongress 2001


Good idea, but too academic

From: Peter Louw
Date: 10/7/99
Time: 6:00:25 AM
Remote Name: 196.36.184.252

Comments

Yes, a wonderful idea, with lots of potential - but some of the articles are VERY academic and theoretical. These academic
articles will be read by professionals and students, but not by the ordinary person who stutters. I feel that there should be a
section for academics and students, and another one for the layperson.



Widening the appeal of conference

From: Sheree Reese
Date: 10/8/99
Time: 8:51:48 AM
Remote Name: 205.188.197.47

Comments

I was initally disappointed that I don't teach a course in Stuttering this semester, and so could not assign my students to
participate in this conference. I AM, however, teaching a course in research (leading to thesis) and so far have found at least
two articles (by Bobbie Lubker and John Harrison) which I feel would be valuable reading for students in this
course...how can we spread the word that there are great examples for students interested in other disorders?



Thank you

From: Jonathan Bashor
Date: 10/11/99
Time: 3:02:15 PM
Remote Name: 207.174.156.56

Comments

I have enjoyed this online conference very much ! Thank you Judy and Michael. All of this information in one place and
from people I never would have known how to reach. I read every article, posted to some, and got good responses. You're
the best ! 



Appreciated Information

From: Jennifer Tanner - Southern University
Date: 10/12/99
Time: 9:08:46 AM
Remote Name: 204.196.106.222

Comments

I would like to thank everyone who had input on this conference. I am a second year graduate student currently enrolled in
a web based Disorders of Rhythem class. I have found it very helpful to be able to visit your web site. I have particularly
enjoyed the articles. It is also very helpful being able to post questions. Thanks for the immediate attention to my question.
Thanks again for a great learning opportunity. Jennifer Tanner 


Thank you from India

From: Akash 
Date: 10/18/99
Time: 8:50:45 AM
Remote Name: 134.29.30.79

Comments

I am a severe stutterer from India. You are really doing a great job. I have got some important inputs for my baffling speech
disorder.


Thank you very much

From: Shari Hofeling, SLP
Date: 10/18/99
Time: 8:12:26 PM
Remote Name: 129.130.229.173

Comments

Thank you for posting this wonderful resource to speech-language pathologists! I recently graduated and am in my first
year of work. Currently, on my caseload are a few school-age children who stutter. I enjoyed reading many of the papers
posted here. Thank you whoever helped to put this together! 


End of Conference

From: Jerry Johnson
Date: 10/20/99
Time: 9:22:07 PM
Remote Name: 152.163.201.187

Comments

What a great management of this terrific ISAD conference. Dr. Mom, alias, Judith Maginnis Kuster and her cohorts have
kept this conference alive throughout the extent of the endeavor. No mean task to be sure. Very few of us would be willing
or able to take on this daunting task. 

As a contributor to this ISAD, please permit me to wax and wane with the following observations. I have read, without
exclusion, the compassion, effort, caring, and commitment of all the contributors to the nebulous investigation of what
makes stuttering so difficult, complex, and challenging to us all. We all know how to count and analyze the obvious. But
what about the mystical relationship between client, parent, care givers, grandparents, godparent, and all the milllions of
listeners of the PWS. What a complex task. We all, in one way or another, are defensive of our positions, but we must
listen to the gurus, young and old, who believe they have built a bette mousetrap. What a wonderous web we have woven.
If you have studied a spider's web lately you have often observed the symmetrical pattern of most of them. However, some
spiders have haphazard webs of ill begotten form and substance. Yet each flourishes. So do the multitude of PWS. We
cannot only investigate the symmetrical shapes of the PWS. We must also account for the unsymmetrical PWS. This is the
challenge for the students in training who wait in the wings to take over from us older "Turks." 

I am amused (?) by those who doubt the magical, mystical relationship between clinician and client. We are first and
foremost imperfect human beings who interact in an imperfect world. Why should we consider our data to be the true
indicator of the imperfect world? We all are experimenters and researchers. We sometimes take different avenues to get
there. How many times have the clinicians prayed about their outcome based therapies? How many times have the
researchers qualified their research based upon limited sampling or questioning why 100% of the subjects didn't perform
like the 65% who did. Why should we expect all PWS to perform the same? 

Why don't all PWS react the same way to the therapies imposed upon them? Why don't the PWS conform to the therapy
program? How come the clincians who stutter still stutter? We need to question why the hard-core stutterer is so resistant to
therapy. 

Therapy takes many forms. We must be willing to talk about the therapy that "works" and that which does not. Sometimes
it is a gut wrenching task. Those clinicians who lament: "You wouldn't have this problem if you would only do what I told
you to do" are missing the boat. Compromise, modification, trial and error, and above all respect for the individual
differences of the PWS and their care givers must be paramount in our decision making processes. If you as an SLP have
never anguished, cried, beat your chest, and never prayed for divine intervention you have kept your emotional distance
between yourself and the client intact. 

In your reading of therapies and research keep an open mind and try to glean a nugget or two from each author. Nobody
has an absolute handle on the truth. Beware of the pompous reseacher or practitioner and those that believe the means to
fluency is in some type of esoteric piece of equipment. I remember purchasing the "Micro Wave Voice Aid," the "Pace
Master," the "Endinburgh Masker," a multitude of "DAF" machines, a "Metronome," an "Artificial Larynx," Biofeedback,"
and GOD knows how many other devices designed to demonstrate "fluency" to the PWS. Go ye the way of the Edsel. 

Your contributors are all honest and well meaning practitioners and researchers who are bent upon finding the best
methodology to "get there." The only stumbling block remains the heterogeneity of stuttering. 

Best wishes to all and to all a good night.

BRAVO -- ISAD Organizers and Participants

From: agnello
Date: 10/21/99
Time: 10:11:07 AM
Remote Name: 134.29.30.79

Comments

Great job.....Canot express in words what a great service u have done for the problem of stutter speech Agnello


SECD 560

From: Melissa Jean-Batiste
Date: 10/21/99
Time: 10:12:59 AM
Remote Name: 134.29.30.79

Comments

I would like to thank Dr.Person for requiring us to participate in this on line conference. The papers are very interesting.
They are so easy to read and understand. I have been reading the comments from other persons participating in the
conference and they all seem to be benefitting from the information. 

SECD 560 STUTTERING COURSE

From: KENYA JONES
Date: 10/21/99
Time: 10:13:59 AM
Remote Name: 134.29.30.79

Comments

I ENJOYED BROWSING THROUGH THE CONFERENCE. I READ THE PAPER WRITTEN BY RUSS HICKS,
ENTITLED "PUBLIC SPEAKING FOR STUTTERS." THIS PAPER GRABBED MY ATTENTION, BECAUSE
PUBLIC SPEAKING HAS ALWAYS MADE ME VERY NERVOUS. RUSS HICKS HAS A WELL WRITTEN PAPER
ABOUT HIS EXPERIENCES AND HOW HE OVERCAME HIS FEARS. I CONGRATULATED HIM FOR HIS
SUCCESS AND I HOPE HIS EXAMPLE WILL ENCOURAGE OTHERS TO FACE THEIR CHALLENGES.


Sad it's over

From: Andreas Starke
Date: 10/22/99
Time: 5:31:00 AM
Remote Name: 212.53.144.66

Comments

Dear Judy: 

This is / has been a great event ! I'm just sad that it is over now. I haven't been able to read all the papers I wanted to and to
post a few comments in time. As far as I could see there were many interesting presentations. 

And I'm very happy that you didn't require presentations to be in that dust-dry (German: staubtrocken) so-called scientific
format. At least we therapy people have to develop a culture of sharing beliefs and opinions without being ashamed because
we don't have "objective" data to support everything we say. 

Thank you for your great work! 

Andreas Starke, Hamburg, Germany


Thanks, Judy

From: Lynne Shields
Date: 10/22/99
Time: 1:58:44 PM
Remote Name: 199.217.208.162

Comments

This has been such a good experience for me, both as a reader and as one having a paper at the conference (or do we say
"on" or "in" for an on-line conference?). I still haven't made it through all of the papers, so I'm quite glad that the
conference will still be on-line. I'll get through those last few soon. 

Thanks for all of the hard work, Judy. Your efforts have made the conference a real success. 

Regards, 

Lynne

Great job, again, Judy!

From: Bob Quesal
Date: 10/22/99
Time: 5:05:39 PM
Remote Name: 143.43.201.99

Comments

Another great ISAD conference Judy! Way to go! Thanks for allowing me to be a part of it, and thanks to all the other great
folks who wrote papers and/or contributed to the discussion. Once again, there is a lot of food for thought. 

Bob Q.