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From: Linda, Grad Student
Date: 18 Oct 2008
Time: 09:26:21 -0500
Remote Name: 96.253.39.212
This thread ties in to a lot of issues that are also being discussed in disability studies. Disability studies scholars point out that many of the problems that come with disability aren’t bodily or inherent, but are caused by the way the disability is constructed in a society that finds disability frightening and tries to erase it. Even though the disability rights movement has made progress, our society still doesn’t accept disability as a normal part of human experience. There’s no entirely satisfying answer to the question because in our society there is still such a big difference between being a fluent stuttering therapist and stuttering fluency therapist. We can’t by our individual choices make the difference unimportant. Maybe conferences like this one will help remove some of the attitudinal barriers that construct stuttering as disability and not difference.