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From: Bernie Weiner
Date: 10/10/01
Time: 10:06:23 PM
Remote Name: 205.188.199.31
Hi Tonya. Thanks for posting to our article. Young people and especially the teens are a little different today then we were back in the 60's. I don't know if they could tolerate a speech therapy camp that lasted 8 weeks, almost the whole summer. Good grief, a whole summer away from computers and T.V. sharing a cabin with 16 other guys. There would probably be a revolt. :-) Maybe though, it would be good for a lot of the people who stutter to get away from it all for awhile, and be in a totally safe enviornment. I do think though, that camps would be able to work much more on the "emotional baggage" of stuttering than they did back in the 60's. And there would also be a lot more follow up work, such as National Stuttering Association suppport groups, and NSA conventions. Neither one of my two children stutter. My son is now 24, and my daughter is now 26. My daughter tried to imitate my stuttering when she was about 4 years old, but it was too much work, so she stopped. :-) I think what concerns me more is that my future grandchildren might inherit the stuttering gene which seems to run in my family. We will deal with that if it happens.